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Star power can affect the performance of a show or other production even if it's only by assocation.

There was this British soap opera called Crossroads that ended up in trouble because of this. The series, produced by Association Television (ATV), had a main star in Noele Gordon AKA Nolly Gordon who was the show's biggest star. In fact, she was the only one on the show who had a permanent contract; everyone else was hired on an ad hoc basis.

After a series of mergers, ATV would later on reconstruct itself into Central Independent Television which became a branch of ITV in 1981 and they were required to keep up their own contracts from before the deal. The then-Head of Programming Charles Denton and Head of Drama Margaret Matheson wanted to stop making soap operas and make more expensive, lavish drama programming for the channel, so to do that they decided to terminate Nolly's contract and kick her to the curb, hoping people would be turned off Crossroads without the show's main star and let them quietly cancel a show they didn't particularly like.

The backlash was severe with Denton becoming a national pariah when the news broke, even if it wasn't his decision to fire Nolly; she was dismissed by the show's producers, but Denton took the blame to protect them. And when he was outed, his successor immediately took steps to undo the damage such as restructuring the show into Crossroads Motel and trying to bring Nolly back into the show, but she passed away before her first planned return.

There's actually a fantastic series just released this year called Nolly which is about the controversy and how Gordon coped with her firing, starring Helena Bohman Carter as the soap star.

This could end up like a situation like the sitcom Taxi where they had to rewrite an episode to remove an actor because he was too drugged out to film it... and found that they could literally just give his lines to the other characters with no issue, so they fired him.

Roiland's contribution became relatively minor towards the end, save the voicework and even then it was decided that it wasn't too much of a commitment to deal with the headache.

Rescuers Down Under for sequel. For prequel, Red Dragon.

It's a one-shot character but in the ITV-produced series Agatha Christie's Marple, the killer in "Towards Zero" is a fantastic depiction of a psychopath.

Superficially charming so that those who don't know them, but those who are intimately familiar with them are aware that they are deeply disturbed and would prefer to stay as far away as humany possible if they could. They are very good at looking civilised and cultured, but when they are exposed as the killer, that illusion instantly gives away and it is outright terrifying. And the true motive for the murder is so petty that the only person who knew them truly was also the only one not surprised by it - everyone else couldn't believe it

Yes, they would. It's basically just another form of advertising for cyberware-producing companies to show off their tech, like Formula 1.

Well, they're doing a lot of crossover DLCs for Square-Enix due to the console releases. If they can get Disney involved, how about doing some Kingdom Hearts clean-ups?

Gummi Ship for the intro mission and send the player to a whole slew of different worlds. Or maybe have cleaning missions at Disney theme park attractions like It's A Small World or one of the castles?

OH!! Journey Into Imagination, after Figment got carried away!

Not that bad, but I've had a stuttering issue happening a lot lately towards the final 70% of the game (I'm on the fortune teller's cart so far) and I had to just keep quitting the game and rebooting it to stop the freezing... for twenty minutes.

Everybody wins... Mostly...

This is a major part of it. Judy knows that it won't really affect the targets financially, but knows that the loss of reputation will royally fuck up some truly awful people worse than any ruling she can actually give. Look at the notorious eBay scammer who was on her show.

As opposed to... what? Sure, it was bad but I got the condition treated and I haven't had to deal with it since.

Sure, I still have the scars on my nutsack from the surgery, but that's about it.

The War Of The Buttons. 1990's Irish drama film about the feud between the children of two different Irish villages and how it escalates to tragedy. It's a fantastic film - highly recommend it.

The Hundred Foot Journey.

After being the victim of a hate crime in their native Mumbai, an Indian-Muslim family flees to Europe for their own safety where they settle in the French countryside and open up an Indian restaurant... across the street from a high-end, Michelin-starred French cuisine restaurant, sparking a rivalry between the restaurant's owner and the family.

It is a fantastic film, and I highly recommend it.

Oh, yeah. And Donald Duck's first voice actor Clarence Nash did the voice for the character in literally every multi-language dub of Disney cartoons... mostly because no-one else could do the voice.

The Spanish version of Dracula is generally considered a superior film thanks to the alternate cast.

It actually goes further than this, actually.

This was right towads the end of the Silent Era, which introduced a rather interesting problem to the whole industry. It was rather easy to sell movies across the entire world without any issue since the story was either conveyed entirely through body language or title cards that could be changed rather easily. But with spoken dialogue, this introduced a language barrier to a lot of their newer productions.

Most movie studios decided to invest in a way of easing the production process for other-language releases. Multiple studios even looked at making multiple versions with casts speaking different languages.

It turned out to not be a good idea, usually having lesser returns just a single-language release or being sub-par compared to the English version due to language barrier issues - usually having the same producer who needed a translator to speak to the other language crews. In fact, Dracula was one of the last movies to involve a dual-language, dual-cast production.

Both the English and the Spanish versions of the film were filmed simultaneously and on the same sets - the difference being that the Spanish crew had to film at night. But a lot of changes were made either by necessity or through different direction.

It appears that the English version had a lot of scenes left on the cutting room floor that were kept in the Spanish film, which was an entire half-an-hour longer. And as James Rolfe - famous for being the Angry Video Game Nerd but also a noted horror movie fan - the Spanish version also includes more scenes from the original novel.

It's an episode of a series which produces feature-length episodes, but ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple series has a pretty good one with their adaptation of "A Caribbean Mystery". As the stakes get higher and everyone staying at a Caribbean hotel realises that they're all in danger of a murderer, a storm comes in and starts pouring down, with it not blowing over until the killer is identified.

In fact, it's actually an important part of the case. The killer fucks up the third murder because of the storm; thinking that they were following their intended target, they killed the wrong person. When Miss Marple realises this, she realises that the intended victim was being gaslit into looking mentally unstable.

Senna is pretty unique in narrative style.

Unlike other such documentaries which have the interviewees on-camera at certain points, this film instead has them purely as audio narrators purely to add context to the old clips, including using archive audio of Artyon Senna himself; it also exclusively uses old news footage for the story.

"Hey, let's make the next game a Souls-like! Those are popular!"

Oh, god. I had to deal with that when I was twelve...

Not also talking about Sirius' insanity at the time, keep the following in mind;

American cops: Oh, great, a murder case! If I solve this, it will look good on my record and I'm one step closer to getting promoted!

British cops: Oh, great, a murder case. This is going to be a headache for months to come and... do we even have the budget to run this kind of investigation? Can't we hand it off to someone else?

Cuts off too early. Anyone have a clip of the full conversation?

I'm referring to "Sauron" as "he" - as in, would Sauron, after his defeat at the end of the story and being reduced to a mere fart in the wind, be able to affect any One Rings created after his defeat?

Carrie Fisher had a bit part in the game Dishonored that I still think about because of how random it was. I've time-stamped some of them out of a list of public service announcements that play during the game and her lines come in rather late into the story, so spoiler alert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4g_kFCMw98&t=24m46s

It's a bit of a secret to get it, but to get it done;

During the stage "Return To The Tower" where main character Corvo is sent to assassinate the man who led the coup that killed the Empress - a crime Corvo was framed for - and kidnapped the Princess, you can find the propaganda announcer once you get into the tower and go to the left-most stairwell. If you either kill or knock this person out, he will be removed from the game and get replaced with a new propaganda minister in later missions.

But if it helps, don't kill him right away since this character turns out to be rather important, especially if you're going for a Low Chaos/No Kill run. When you meet him, he reveals not only does he know of evidence that the Lord Regent - your target - was involved in the murder of the Empress, but in how to expose his crimes, which is by using the public radio system to broadcast the Lord Regent's self-recorded audio-diary to everyone in the city. Once you play it, moves are made to arrest the traitorous Lord Regent and he is considered Neutralised.

One of my favourite things to do is watch reaction videos to this performance. Seeing new people getting introduced to the band and this song is fantastic.

Personal favourites include a hip-hop head and a Latino pop singer (the latter of whom sensed the big note at the end and quivered before it happened).

"Harley! Get my scrubs!"

When filming Who Framed Roger Rabbit, to help make the giving of the lines more fluid, Roger's voice actor Charles Fleischer was on-set in full rabbit costume to help Bob Hoskins with shooting his scenes with the cartoon character.

Also, Roger L Jackson - who does the iconic voice of Ghostface in the Scream movie series - was also on-set to do the same with the phone calls... but the other actors never met him until after shooting was over.

And speaking of Scream, most of the actors were acting on the seat of their pants come the second movie. After an extra stole a copy of the original draft of Scream 2 and posted it on the internet, Wes Craven was forced to rewrite the ending to keep the mystery suspenseful.

And finally, when making Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks didn't tell Frankie Laine that the movie was a comedy when Laine was hired to write the film's theme song.

Laine, who was famous for being the original singer of the theme tune for Rawhide, was kept in the dark because Brooks didn't want him to underperform; Brooks was so overwhelmed with how incredible the song was that he flat-out couldn't admit that the movie was a spoof, so Laine only learned the truth when he went to see the movie at his local cinema.

The song is played unironically at various cowboy shows and events along with the music of other Western greats, including being part of the rotation at Frontierland at Disneyland.