History FakeShemp / Film

** In ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'', Billy has a dream about going on a date with ''Film/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.]]

* In ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'', a scene that wasn't in the script has Jen tease flashing her breasts for the reality TV cameras. The filmmakers asked Creator/KateeSackhoff to go as far as flashing her bra. She wasn't comfortable with that and compromised with lifting the top up to her [[BareYourMidriff midriff]]. Little did she know, the filmmakers went behind her back to film a shot of a bra with a body double. The experience made her ensure all of her subsequent contracts had a "no nudity" clause.

* George [=McFly=] in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' sequels did this, TheOtherDarrin, and FilmingForEasyDub to get around the absence of Creator/CrispinGlover. This trope was invoked by disguising TheOtherDarrin, Jeffrey Weissman, with a makeup FX mask of Glover made for the first film, sunglasses, out of focus shots, and even having him spend the entire "future" portion of the film "inverted", in which George was actually upside-down. While an impressive bit of movie-making magic, this ran into significant legal problems. Because the switch in actors was so well hidden audiences were led to believe Crispin Glover still played George [=McFly=], and he filed a lawsuit for misappropriating his likeness. Though the suit was settled quietly before its court date, the cornerstone of the argument was the use of StockFootage of Glover in the first film, and the Screen Actors Guild rewrote their rules on stock footage as a result of this. The Guild also began including clauses in their contracts requiring film studios to request permission from members (or their estates if deceased) before Shemping them.

* George [=McFly=] in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' sequels did this, TheOtherDarrin, and FilmingForEasyDub to get around the absence of Creator/CrispinGlover. This trope was invoked by disguising TheOtherDarrin, Jeffrey Weissman, with a makeup FX mask of Glover made for the first film, sunglasses, out of focus shots, and even having him spend the entire "future" portion of the film "inverted", in which George was actually upside-down. While an impressive bit of movie-making magic, this ran into significant legal problems. Because the switch in actors was so well hidden audiences were led to believe Crispin Glover still played George [=McFly=], and he filed a lawsuit for misappropriating his likeness. Though the suit was settled quietly before its court date, the cornerstone of the argument was the use of StockFootage of Glover in the first film, and the Screen Actors Guild rewrote their rules on stock footage as a result of this.

** The {{Trope Namer|s}} comes from Creator/SamRaimi's nickname for how the Stooges [[ContractualObligationproject fulfilled their film contract]] after Shemp Howard's death in 1955. The last few Shemp shorts mainly featured just Larry and Moe, borrowed some Shemp scenes from old films, and used a body double (bit actor Joe Palma) wherever they absolutely had to.

* The TropeNamer is director Creator/SamRaimi, who coined the term "Fake Shemp" and "Shemping" when most of the cast of ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' had to leave for their regular jobs, and he and his brother Ted Raimi had to fill in a lot of scenes just by themselves.

** Shemp Howard died before they had finished enough films to fulfill their contract. So, the last few Shemp shorts mainly featured just Larry and Moe, borrowed some Shemp scenes from old films, and used a body double (bit actor Joe Palma) wherever they absolutely had to.

** Similar to ''Your Highness'', she also used a double for the nude scene in ''Goya's Ghosts''.

* The Frankenstein Monster was subject to this in the original Universal Horror film series of the 1930s-40s:

* In the theatrical ending of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', Tisha Campbell was unavailable for her appearance in the new ending and had to be replaced with a body double.

* 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. Some would say it falls under the UncannyValley... [[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.

* During filming of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', Creator/HarrisonFord injured his back and was out for several weeks. To continue production, Creator/StevenSpielberg used Ford's stuntman Vic Armstrong to perform the action sequences (even the simpler ones Ford could do) from behind, and Ford later filmed a few token close-ups. It helped that Armstrong and Ford looks [[http://winnipegpublibrary.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/vicandharrison.jpg a lot like each other,]] to the extent that Ford's own son once went up to him believing it to be his dad.

* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'': Creator/LaurenceOlivier, via the magic of stock footage and CGI, managed to appear as Doctor Totenkopf, the BigBad, despite the huge setback of being dead. Which is quite appropriate, considering Doctor Totenkopf [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong died twenty years before the film's setting]].]]

** Prior to his death, Sellers had been planning to make one more Clouseau film without Edwards (as their professional relationship had become so strained); in fact Edwards was paid ''not'' to do it. When Sellers died, Edwards made ''Trail'' as the first part of a relaunch of the series with a new lead character (introduced in the second part, ''Film/CurseOfThePinkPanther''), which comes across as a downright ghoulish grab for a CashCowFranchise. Sellers' widow successfully sued Edwards and Creator/UnitedArtists for disgracing the actor's memory.

* ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' - Creator/KatherineIsabelle refuses to do nude scenes and arrived on set to discover that one had been written for her character Gibb. Despite the director Ronnie Yu pressuring her, she refused, and so Gibb's shower scene has a body double standing in for her.

** In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Creator/RhysIfans and Creator/ThomasHadenChurch were clearly never once on set, supplying only voice work for most of their screen time. For Ifans this isn't too conspicuous, as he's playing the Lizard, while it leaves Church's Sandman rather jarringly in the form of a human-shaped mass of sand for the entire film, when in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' he could easily appear human.[[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]] In the film's final battle, when the two of them are cured and return to human form, it's quite transparently StockFootage of them becoming human back in their first appearances, and because of this they obviously do not react to the reassurances of the ones who cure them.

* ''Film/GameOfDeath'': Creator/BruceLee had died when very little of the film had been made; only the famous fight scenes had been finished. In the end the film not only had minimal resemblance to Lee's original vision but the film-makers went to great lengths to hide the fact that "Bruce Lee" was in fact an unknown Korean martial artist (who was not a stuntman or an acrobat so he had to be doubled by Yuen Biao in more stunt-oriented sequences). In addition to the typical tricks of the time (face-obscuring glasses and lack of headshots), one truly JustForFun/{{egregious}} example comes within the first minutes of the film when the baddies try to threaten a perfectly stoic Lee, portrayed in the scene by a cardboard cutout taped to a mirror. The film-makers even went as far as including footage of ''Bruce Lee's actual funeral''.

* A film was released with Kim Tai Chung (with Biao again doubling him) along with Creator/BruceLee footage, called ''Tower of Death'' in some places and ''Game of Death 2'' in others. In this one, Bruce's "character" dies midway through the film and his brother takes over the role, played by Kim Tai Chung (with Biao still doubling) without any need to splice Lee in. Oh, and they used footage from Bruce's funeral '''again'''.

* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'' has a scene where the creators had a specific location in mind, and a narrow window to shoot it in, during which the required actors weren't available. Thankfully, the scene was brief and just required three characters, who were already established as wearing identical, face-concealing cloaks, to walk up some steps together: The solution was to film the co-director climbing the steps in costume alone from a distance, then composite the shot so she looked like three identically dressed people walking in single file.

* George [=McFly=] in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' sequels did this, TheOtherDarrin, and FilmingForEasyDub to get around the absence of Creator/CrispinGlover. This trope was invoked by disguising TheOtherDarrin, Jeffrey Weissman, with a makeup FX mask of Glover made for the first film, sunglasses, out of focus shots, and even having him spend the entire "future" portion of the film "inverted", in which George was actually upside-down. While an impressive bit of movie-making magic, this ran into significant legal problems. Because the switch in actors was so well hidden audiences were lead to believe Crispin Glover still played George [=McFly=], and he filed a lawsuit for misappropriating his likeness. Though the suit was settled quietly before its court date the cornerstone of the argument was the use of StockFootage of Glover in the first film, and the Screen Actors Guild rewrote their rules on stock footage as a result of this.

* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' gets around the death of Creator/HaroldRamis in 2014 by having Egon's face at most shrouded in shadow in the prologue, and [[spoiler:with some strong and surprisingly well-done CGI in the climax with Creator/IvanReitman acting as a body double for Egon as a ghost.]] No lines were spoken by Egon (outside of old recordings like the initial Ghostbusters TV ad), making it easier. Despite the creator death, Egon's legacy of his family and as a Ghostbuster is the focal point of the entire movie's story.

** In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Creator/RhysIfans and Creator/ThomasHadenChurch were clearly never once on set, supplying only voice work for most of their screen time. For Ifans this isn't too conspicuous, as he's playing the Lizard, while it leaves Church's Sandman rather jarringly in the form of a human-shaped mass of sand for the entire film, when in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' he could easily appear human.[[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]] In the film's final battle, when the two of them are cured and return to human form, it's quite transparently StockFootage of the two of them becoming human back in their first appearances, and because of this they obviously do not react to the reassurances of the ones who cure them.

** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Creator/NataliePortman was unavailable for reshoots. The ending kissing scene instead had Creator/ChrisHemsworth's wife, Creator/ElsaPataky, stand in as Comicbook/{{Jane|Foster}} wearing Jane's costume and a wig, with film wizardry hiding this.

* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' gets around the death of Creator/HaroldRamis in 2014 by having Egon's face at most shrouded in shadow in the prologue, and with some strong CGI in the climax with Creator/IvanReitman acting as a body double for Egon as a ghost. No lines were spoken by Egon (outside of old recordings like the initial Ghostbusters TV ad), making it easier. Despite the creator death, Egon's legacy of his family and as a Ghostbuster is the focal point of the entire movie's story.

* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' gets around the death of Creator/HaroldRamis in 2014 by having Egon's face at most shrouded in shadow in the prologue, and with some strong CGI in the climax with Creator/IvanReitman acting as a body double for Egon as a ghost. No lines were spoken by Egon (outside of old recordings like the initial Ghostbusters TV ad), making it easier. Despite the creator death, Despite the Fake Shemp job, Egon's legacy of his family and as a Ghostbuster is the focal point of the entire movie's story.

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