History Main / LoopingLines

This is the standard way to record dialog in dubbed foreign productions and in {{anime}}. WesternAnimation, on the other hand, generally has dialogue recorded beforehand (a technique known as pre-lay).

* CillianMurphy rerecorded all of his lines for ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' during Post Production, replacing a faux-British accent with his natural Irish accent because he thought the British accent sounded too fake.

* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'': TonyCurtis' dialogue when he was dressed up as a female was dubbed by PaulFrees since Curtis had too deep of a voice to do a proper falsetto. He did attempt it during filming though, and one or two of his quick lines slipped through. Notably, Frees also had a small on-camera part as the owner of a speakeasy.
* In ''Back to the Future'', Crispin Glover (George McFly) lost his voice due to nervousness while filming Back to the Future. For some scenes, he had to silently mouth his lines, with his voice being dubbed in later at a recording studio.

* Averted in the classic ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "Eye of the Beholder". Two different actresses played the main character, one with the bandages on and one with them off. The latter actress was told that they'd dub in the former's voice after filming... but she was on set during the filming of the bandaged scenes, and as a result she managed to mimic the other actress's voice well enough that they didn't need to.

* In ''StarWars: Episode 3,'' Hayden Christensen and Ewan Mcgregor had to record grunts for when they were fighting. That's right. ''Grunts''.

** Looping was a fact of life for many actors in the ''StarWars'' universe, like Anthony Daniels (Threepio). Most well-known case is Darth Vader, as no one would be afraid of David Prowse's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm9DDxQv8E voice]].
** Very noticeable in ''ANewHope'' as dialogue tends to fluctuate in volume and intonation even in the same scene.
* ''TheLordOfTheRings''--the entire trilogy--was dubbed in post: the enormous noise of the fans and the assorted background noise made it impossible to hear any of the dialogue. That is, the whirling bladed fans, not the squeeing or complaining ones.

* On ''Jeopardy!'', Alex Trebek often rerecords his reading of a clue if he stumbles over a word, but no lip-synching is involved because the screen usually shows the text of the clue rather than the host's face.

* Happens all the time with Tommy Wiseau's lines in ''Film/TheRoom'', for no adequately explained reason.

** There was quite a bit of ADR going on, according to DannyBoyle. Several shots were actually set up to accommodate ease of ADR (faces in shadows, the actor out of frame etc) and a handful of new lines were added to otherwise wordless scenes.

* ''Franchise/EvilDead 2'' has Ash, after his hand has been possessed, screaming and running around, then saying ''very'' distinctly "Work shed." Those two words were looped in ADR, and it ''sounds like it''. In fact, Bruce Campbell relates on the commentary that years later, when he met Kurt Russell for the first time, Russell walked up to him, shook hands, and without preamble demanded Campbell "say 'Work shed'."

* When ''Series/TheAvengers'' switched from film to videotape in season 4, and Emma Peel became Gascoyne Beresford Steed's new partner in crime, the show's shooting became more flexible: For on-location scenes outdoors, they would be shot mute, with the dialogue being rerecorded by the original actors in post-production (as was the norm for British television at the time).

** In ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', Gert Fröbe's lines had to be dubbed over because of his impenetrable German accent.
** One actress, Nikki Van Der Zyl, was the voice of the Bond Girl twice (''Film/DrNo'' and ''Thunderball''), the Bond Girl in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' (Daniela Bianchi) was also dubbed, and Robert Rietty voiced both an agent who is killed in ''Film/DrNo'' and the villain of ''Thunderball''.

* Lina Leandersson in LetTheRightOneIn was dubbed over by an older actress since the director found her voice to be too feminine to suit Eli.

* There's a point in a ''{{Scrubs}}'' episode where Dr. Cox is yelling at Elliot (that narrows it down a bunch...) and begs to 'Aiisha', even though it's very, VERY obvious for anyone watching his mouth that he's saying "Allah".

** One actress, Nikki Van Der Zyl, was the voice of the Bond Girl twice (''Film/DrNo'' and ''Thunderball''), the Bond Girl in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' was also dubbed, and Robert Rietty voiced both an agent who is killed in ''Film/DrNo'' and the villain of ''Thunderball''.

* In the ''Series/EvenStevens'' pilot, the characters' voices never match their lips when they say "Stevens", because the family was called the Spiveys during filming.

** This is hilariously referenced in ''JesusOfMontreal'' where one of the actors is introduced while looping lines for a porno. Halfway through, he cries out that he's been reading the wrong lines and he's told that it doesn't matter and that no one will notice.

* When ''''Series/''TheAvengers'' switched from film to videotape in season 4, and Emma Peel becameGascoyne Beresford Steed's new partner in crime, the show's shooting became more flexible: For on-location scenes outdoors, they would be shot mute, with the dialogue being rerecorded by the original actors in post-production (as was the norm for British television at the time).

* When ''''Series/''TheAvengers'' switched from film to videotape in season 4, and Emma Peel becameGascoyne Beresford Steed's new partner in crime, the show's shooting became more flexible: For on-location scenes outdoors, they would be shot mute, with the dialogue being rerecorded by the original actors in post-production.

* Happens all the time with Tommy Wiseau's lines in TheRoom, for no adequately explained reason.

* When filming ''{{Film/Popeye}}'', some of RobinWilliams' mumbling was so incomprehensible he had to re-record the dialogue and add it later.

This is much more common than you may think. As a rule of thumb, any time you hear an actor make a noise and you can't clearly see their mouth on screen, it's been ADR'd. This technique is used on a wider and more noticeable scale in Asian live-action productions, particularly {{Bollywood}} and Japanese {{tokusatsu}} and ''dorama'' television serials.

* ThatGuyWithTheGlasses has done this a few times:
** In AtopTheFourthWall, when Linkara is leaving [[BigBad Lord Vyce]] in a barren universe, Lewis dubbed over his lines due to weather conditions.

* Hugo Weaving as V in ''VForVendetta'' had to dub all of his lines, because of the mask.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode 'Midnight' had a lot of ADR. So much so that the corresponding ''DoctorWhoConfidential'' episode was pretty much entirely about the ADR process.