History Main / PosthumousCollaboration

* After a year-long hiatus in the wake of the death of its creator Creator/KentaroMiura in May 2021, ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' would later continue under the supervision of Miura's long-time friend and collaborator Kouji Mori (creator of ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' and ''Manga/SuicideIsland''), who took over as the manga's writer, and his assistants at Studio Gaga who serve as the illustrators.

* After a year-long hiatus in the wake the death of its creator Creator/KentaroMiura in May 2021, ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' would later continue thanks to his assistants at Studio Gaga, under the supervision of Miura's long-time friend and collaborator Kouji Mori, creator of ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' and ''Manga/SuicideIsland''.

* After an indefinite hiatus that resulted from the death of its creator Creator/KentaroMiura on May 2021, ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' would continue with his assistants at Studio Gaga, under the supervision of Miura's long-time friend and collaborator Kouji Mori, creator of ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' and ''Manga/SuicideIsland''.

** In the mid-1960s, when Hank Jr. was still a teenager, [=MGM=] Records took a dozen of Hank Sr.'s vintage recordings, updated their musical tracks, and had Bocephus record new vocal tracks. The result was new "duets" with with father and son. One of the duets was "Mind Your Own Business," which sounded much like a typical 1960s song [[spoiler: but wouldn't become a hit ... until re-recorded nearly 20 years later, without Hank Sr. but with Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/TomPetty, the Rev. Ike and Music/WillieNelson]].

* In the same vein as the Hank Williams example above, "Unforgettable" by Music/NatKingCole [-and Natalie Cole-], "God Bless the Child" by Music/BillieHoliday and [-Tony Bennett-] and "All The Way" by Music/FrankSinatra [-and Music/CelineDion-].
** As well as quite a few nostalgia-oriented Christmas songs from the TurnOfTheMillennium[=/=]TheNewTens onwards, including "The Christmas Song" also by Music/NatKingCole [-and Natalie Cole-], "White Christmas" by Music/BingCrosby [-and Music/MichaelBuble-], "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" by Ella Fitzgerald [-and Music/RodStewart-], "O Come All Ye Faithful" by Music/ElvisPresley [-and [[Series/BritainsGotTalent Susan Boyle]]-], and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" by Music/FrankSinatra [-and Music/KylieMinogue-]. There seems to be at least one such collab every year.
** Speaking of Elvis, there's the 2008 album ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Duets Christmas Duets]]'', in which his vocals are mixed with those of younger country and contemporary Christian artists, including Music/CarrieUnderwood, Music/MartinaMcBride, and Amy Grant. [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7gx9p_elvis-and-martina-mcbride-blue-chri_music The music video for the "Blue Christmas" cover]] digitally inserts [=McBride=] into a PerformanceVideo of Presley singing the song live - the only known video footage of him performing a Christmas song.

* Music/MichaelJackson's segments from "We Are The World" were re-used on the 2010 remake for Haiti, given his then-recent death and his heavy involvement in the original. Music/JanetJackson even sang along with her late brother in the remake.

** Another such collaboration, "Love Never Felt So Good" [-featuring Music/JustinTimberlake-], was the lead single for the 2014 album ''[[Music/XscapeMichaelJacksonAlbum Xscape]]'', comprised of previously unreleased songs mixed with re-recorded instrumentation.[[note]]The deluxe edition contains the original versions.[[/note]]

** When Michael was alive, his 2001 recording ''Music/{{Invincible}}'' featured posthumous vocals from other people: "Unbreakable" has a guest vocal from Music/TheNotoriousBIG (whose verse was taken from Creator/ShaquilleONeal's "You Can't Stop The Reign"), and Creator/RodSerling also made an appearance via audio from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
** [[HilariousInHindsight Ironically enough]], Justin Timberlake's hit "Rock Your Body" was written (by Pharrell Williams) for ''Invincible'' over a decade before "Love Never Felt So Good".
* Speaking of Music/TheNotoriousBIG, all of his posthumous albums (except Life After Death, completed when he was still alive) counts, since they are mostly put together using unreleased (or sometimes already released) content.

* "Who's Got The Action" by Dean Martin [-and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy-]. It was the lead single for ''Forever Cool'', an entire album of posthumous collaborations with Martin and other musicians.
* In 2014, Music/BarryManilow released an entire album of these, entitled ''My Dream Duets''. Its lead single is a version of "[[Film/CasinoRoyale1967 The Look Of Love]]" [-with Dusty Springfield-], other artists featured include Music/WhitneyHouston, Sammy Davis Jr., John Denver, and Music/LouisArmstrong.

* An odd subversion is ''Music/BrianJonesPresentsThePipesOfPanAtJajouka'', an album that was recorded by Music/BrianJones (Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}) as a SoloSideProject but was unfinished when he suddenly died. As a result, this 1968 recording was only made available to the public in 1971. And even then it's not really a collaboration. It was merely produced by him, but doesn't feature him on vocals or instruments at all - it's actually just an album by the Master Musicians of Jajouka, a Moroccan folk group, with Jones' name tacked onto it for sales purposes.

** His collaboration with Snoop Dogg "Gangsta Boogie" on his album The Diary (slated to be released in 2002 but shelved; it was finally released in 2016) also counts, as Dilla wanted Snoop to collaborate with him on the song, but Snoop's verse was recorded long after Dilla's passing.
*** Speaking of The Diary, Nas' verse on "The Sickness" was also recorded way after Dilla's death.

* Music/{{Drake}}'s fifth album ''Scorpion'' has two collaborations of such: "After Dark" (which in addition to Ty Dolla Sign, features Static Major [[note]]who died in 2008 and his vocals for the song are from a song off his unreleased debut album[[/note]]) and "Don't Matter to Me" (which features Music/MichaelJackson [[note]]who died in 2009 and his vocals for the song are from his 1983 recording session with Paul Anka, which two songs "This Is It" and "Love Never Felt So Good" originated from[[/note]]).

* Music/WhitneyHouston covered Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" in 1990, but it was only released as a Japan-exclusive bonus track. In 2019, seven years after her death, her cover version resurfaced as a posthumous collaboration [-with Music/{{Kygo}}-].

* [[Music/{{MFDOOM}} MF DOOM]] died on Halloween of 2020, but almost a year later on October 8th, 2021, Rhymesayers Entertainment released "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyJD7gMJBiI Barcade]]", featuring him, Music/AesopRock, and Music/{{Atmosphere}}, as a pseudo-sequel to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JRF7OzQDvU Put Your Quarter Up]]", released twenty years prior.

* In late 2021, Music/{{Aaliyah}}'s uncle and former label head Barry Hankerson announced that he would be releasing a new posthumous album called ''Unstoppable'' in 2022, utilizing vocal demos she recorded before her death in 2001 and mixing them into collaborations with artists like Music/TheWeeknd and Music/ChrisBrown. It was originally scheduled to be released in January, but ScheduleSlip ensued and the album still has yet to be released as of November.

* Charles Dickens died while writing a novel (''Literature/TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood'') which Rupert Holmes (as in the guy who did "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)") turned into a musical called ''Theatre/{{Drood}}''. Unique in that the audience at each performance gets to vote for whom they think the murderer is, so each suspect has to be ready with his confession number that he may not get to sing. So, this was written by Charles Dickens [-and the audience-]. That is, in the sense of each individual performance. Since Holmes wrote endings for ''every possible audience choice'', in the sense of the overall work, it's Charles Dickens [-and Holmes-].

* Before Robert L. May passed away in 1976, he wrote a third story starring ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' called ''Rudolph's Second Christmas'' [[note]] Later known as ''Rudolph to The Rescue'' [[/note]]. May written manuscripts for the story in 1947 but decided not to publish it, instead he released ''Literature/RudolphShinesAgain'' in 1954. "Rudolph's Second Christmas" wouldn't get published until Montgomery Ward and May's daughters discovered a manuscript of the story in 1991 and published the story in 1992. Due to Denver Gillen (the original illustrator) no longer being alive, Michael Emberley was brought in to illustrate the story. When it was renamed ''Rudolph to the Rescue'' in 2006 (to avoid confusion with the official sequel "Rudolph Shines Again" from 1954), it was illustrated by Lisa Papp.

** When Lennon's old bandmates in Music/TheBeatles were compiling ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' in the 1990s, they took two old Lennon demos ("Free as a Bird" and "Real Love"), added instrumental backing and additional vocals, and released them as "new" Beatles songs.
** A third Lennon demo, "Now and Then", was also being worked on around this time, but technical problems caused it to be shelved until 2023, when the now-two-surviving Beatles, Paul and Ringo, finally finished the song, promoting it as "the last Beatles song". This also included contributions from George Harrison, who had died in 2001.

* ''Film/AfterTheRain'' was written by Creator/AkiraKurosawa, who was planning on directing it; after his death, Takashi Koizumi took over.

* Posthumous Music/JohnLennon work. His widow Yoko Ono took the 1980 recordings that were unfinished as of Lennon's death, mixed them, and released them with her own songs as the Lennon-Ono album ''Milk and Honey''. Later, when Lennon's old bandmates in Music/TheBeatles were compiling ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' in the 1990s, they took two old Lennon demos ("Free as a Bird" and "Real Love"), added instrumental backing and additional vocals, and released them as "new" Beatles songs. In 2023, the now-two-surviving Beatles, Paul and Ringo, reunited to record "Now And Then", another Lennon demo that the then-three-surviving Beatles had originally worked on during the ''Anthology'' sessions, promoting it as "the last Beatles song".

* Posthumous Music/JohnLennon work. His widow Yoko Ono took the 1980 recordings that were unfinished as of Lennon's death, mixed them, and released them with her own songs as the Lennon-Ono album ''Milk and Honey''. Later, when Lennon's old bandmates in Music/TheBeatles were compiling ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' in the 1990s, they took two old Lennon demos ("Free as a Bird" and "Real Love"), added instrumental backing and additional vocals, and released them as "new" Beatles songs.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Visits [[Creator/NormanRockwell Rockwell]]'', a calendar which remedies the lack of [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} fat orange cats]] in Creator/NormanRockwell's paintings for the ''Saturday Evening Post''.

* After an indefinite hiatus that resulted from the death of its creator Kentaro Miura on May 2021, ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' would continue with his assistants at Studio Gaga, under the supervision of Miura's long-time friend and collaborator Kouji Mori, creator of ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' and ''Manga/SuicideIsland''.

* While Anna Dewdney passed away in the Fall of 2016 of breast cancer, the Easter book "Llama Llama Easter Egg" became one of Dewdney's last books that were completed during her lifetime. Previously unpublished ''Literature/LlamaLlama'' books such as "Llama Llama Loves To Read" managed to get released two years after her passing. Future Llama Llama books (such as "Llama Llama ABC") would also get released years later using Dewdney's manuscript and JT Morrow as the new illustrator.

* A rare example of a trope being prepared for well in advance occurs with ''Series/GameOfThrones''. In 2013, George R.R. Martin, author of the book series upon which it was based, indicated that he'd briefed the showrunners of the series regarding his planned ending of the novel cycle, in order to allow the producers to both plan ahead and also continue the story should Martin [[DiedDuringProduction be unable to complete the novels]].

* [[Music/{{MFDOOM}} MF DOOM]] died on Halloween of 2020, but almost a year later on October 8th, 2021, Rhymesayers Entertainment released "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyJD7gMJBiI Barcade]]", featuring him, Music/AesopRock, and Music/{{Atmosphere}}.

** Another such collaboration, "Love Never Felt So Good" [-featuring Music/JustinTimberlake-], was the lead single for the 2014 album ''Music/{{Xscape}}'', comprised of previously unreleased songs mixed with re-recorded instrumentation.[[note]]The deluxe edition contains the original versions.[[/note]]

** This one is a bit special, as it was started by Kubrick, who then handed it to Spielberg, with plans to direct it. But once Spielberg did it, it was always he who was to direct it.

%%* If this counts, any WebAnimation/YouTubePoop that uses Creator/BillyMays after his 2009 death.

* ''Music/MadeInHeaven'' by Music/{{Queen}} was ''[[DoingItForTheArt planned in advance]]'' by Music/FreddieMercury to be completed after his death, as he didn't think he had enough time left to create whole songs (and he was sadly correct). He just did his parts and let the rest of the band finish them after he died.