Hunger Games to Be Completed with CGI Philip Seymour Hoffman
Had some scenes left to film before he died
The filmmakers behind the "Hunger Games" movies will digitally recreate late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in a major yet-to-be-shot scene, sources from the flick said.
Editors will use computer graphics and camera tricks — instead of rewriting the script — to film at least one heartfelt scene featuring Hoffman's character, the gamesmaker Plutarch Heavensbee.
"You can do digital things, you can have conversations where you're not focusing on him but the people he's talking to," an insider from the film company Lionsgate told Hollywood Reporter.
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I wondered how they would do that considering Plutarch was in a lot of scenes in the book.
CGI today done by a competent crew could definitely make PSH 'look' real. But trying to animate a great character actor is a lot harder. Hopefully it's not a long scene, or PSH buffs will spot the fake.
The first part of the movie was in the can when he died and he was said to have a week of work left on the second. When Natalie Wood died before finishing work on Brainstorm, they scraped the whole thing and the insurance company had to pay.
Listen to Nancy Reagan folks. Just say no to drugs.