Although extremely rare, this is not the only time that a major character had to be recast in a Hollywood film after the filming was almost or entirely completed. For instance, after Ridley Scott's Tutti i soldi del mondo (2017) was entirely done, the film's major co-star, Kevin Spacey, had to be replaced with Christopher Plummer due to a sex scandal. Save for possibly one or two long shots, all of Spacey's scenes were then reshot in nine days with Plummer. Incidentally, Plummer happened to have been Scott's original choice for Spacey's role. Also, Michael J. Fox had to infamously replace Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Ritorno al futuro (1985), even though at least one third of the movie was already completed with Stoltz in the role, because the filmmakers thought that Stoltz's Marty was simply coming off as too serious. Perhaps the most extreme example is the 1967 horror film, Cerimonia per un delitto (1966), where Kim Novak was seriously injured in a riding accident after filming a reported seven-eighths of her leading role in the film. Although she did make a full recovery, she was unable to return to work for many weeks, and the company was obliged to re-film all her scenes and complete the film with Deborah Kerr.

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