History FakeShemp / Film

* Creator/BrandonLee's tragic death on the set of ''Film/TheCrow'' three-fourths of the way through the production sent the producers scrambling for a way to salvage the film. Body doubles, careful angles, and CGI used to put [[DigitalHeadSwap Lee's face on a stunt double]] was used to finish his scenes. In a couple of places, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it works really well]], with the avoidance of close-ups on his face (at the risk of sounding disrespectful to Lee) arguably adding to the haunting, faceless, unknowable mystique of the character.

** In ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'', Billy has a dream about going on a date with Franchise/WonderWoman. Much like the Superman cameo in the first film, the camera very pointedly makes her visible only from behind or from the neck down. [[spoiler:In this case, though, it's intentional misdirection by the creators, covering for the fact that Gal Gadot herself shows up as the genuine article near the end. The dream Wonder Woman is even explicitly credited as such and really ''was'' played by a different actress, one Taylor Cahill, for that scene instead of it actually being Gadot with her face conspicuously out of frame.]]

* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger returns as the Terminator in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' while being the Governator at the exact same time, thanks to the magic of CGI and a mold from 1984 combined. This example is unique in the fact that the crew decided to get permission from the actor before shemping him. [[JustifiedTrope which just makes it more appropriate]] for the character since we're supposed to be seeing a soulless human-looking death machine. The directors' backup plan just in case Arnold said no was to just have the Terminator's face blown off just before anybody could see it. Voila.

** In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Creator/RhysIfans and Creator/ThomasHadenChurch reprise their respective roles as [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan Curt Connors/Lizard]] and [[Film/SpiderMan3 Flint Marko/Sandman]] entirely via voiceover and never worked on-set, in part to ease filming the ambitious crossover film under COVID-19 restrictions. This isn't too conspicuous for the Lizard, who would be an all-CGI character regardless, but it leaves the Sandman, who could still appear human in ''Spider-Man 3'', spending most of the film in the form of a human-shaped mass of sand,[[note]]This change is implied to be the result of his powers degrading over time; being the only one of the multiversal villains who ended his film both alive and with his powers intact, he's the only one to come from a point in time after the film ended.[[/note]] with director Creator/JonWatts serving as Church's on-set stand-in. In the film's final battle, when Connors and Marko are cured and return to human form, it's quite transparently StockFootage of similar scenes from their original appearances, resulting in them showing no reaction to the reassurances of the ones who cure them.