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  • The 7th Company: Aldo Maccione played Tassin in the first film. He demanded more money to return since the first film was a big hit (in addition to his personal beef with the director Robert Lamoureux) and was replaced by Henri Guybet.
  • After:
    • Rob Estes and Karimah Westbrook replaced Peter Gallagher and Jennifer Beals as Ken and Karen Scott, respectively, in After We Collided. Karen would get a new actress again in After We Fell, when Frances Turner replaced Westbrook.
    • The third film, After We Fell, is somewhat infamous for several recasts among major characters. The changes most likely were born due to a mix of complications with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first two films were filmed in Atlanta; subsequent movies, however, were filmed in Europe, and were filmed concurrently, making for a long time actors had to spend in a foreign land in the midst of a pandemic, conflicting with other schedules the actors might have. This led to several roles having to be recast, with at least one character being written out after the second movie due to the actor not wanting to return. Among the recasts include Arielle Kebbel as Kimberley (replacing Candice King), Chance Perdomo as Landon (replacing Shane Paul McGhie), Stephen Moyer as Christian Vance (replacing Charlie Weber), and Mira Sorvino as Carol Young (replacing Selma Blair).
  • For the Asterix film series, most characters have been portrayed by different actors over the years.
  • An extreme example in the Atlas Shrugged films. Each movie in the trilogy has every member of the cast replaced between films, meaning ultimately there are as many as three actors for every character. Not a single one of mostly C or D-list actors to appear were contracted for more than one film. This makes Atlas Shrugged perhaps the most inconsistent film series of all time.
  • DC Extended Universe:
  • Tarzan. Quite a few people forget that Tarzan films reached theaters regularly from 1918 to 1968, and a live-action film came out as late as 2016. For obvious reasons (i.e. he barely wears clothes, so the aging of the actors received maximum attention, plus the fact multiple studios produced Tarzan films with two competing series at one point co-existing in Hollywood), the part of Tarzan underwent constant recasting. Elmo Lincoln, Johnny Weissmuller, Lex Barker, Gordon Scott, and Mike Henry among others played the role including Casper Van Dien in the 1998 version. In 2016 Alexander Skarsgård played Tarzan in the last live-action Tarzan film to reach theaters.
    • The same is true for Jane and their son Boy - both had to be replaced. Justified with Boy, as they didn't want him getting too old.
  • The Toxic Avenger: There are 3 different cases of it.
    • Melvin, the 98 pound wimp is played by Mark Torgl in the original 1984 film. In the third film, he is played by Michael J. Kaplan.
    • Melvin's alter ego, Toxie -the title character, is played by 5 different actors across the four Toxic Avenger films. In the first film, he is played by Mitch Cohen. In the sequel, he is first played by John Altamura, who was fired due to a case of Small Name, Big Ego. Then for the rest of the second and third film, he's played by Altamura's stunt double, Ron Fazio. In the fourth film, Toxie is now played by David Mattey. However, due to miscommunication on part of his filming schedule, he was not on set during one of the scenes, and thus for said scene, Toxie was played by a tall African American actor, wearing the mask from the second film.
    • Finally, Toxie's love interest is played by three different actresses. In the first film, her name is Sara and she is played by Andree Maranda. In the following two sequels, her character's name is changed to Claire, and she's played by Phoebe Legere. Then in the fourth film, she is played by Heidi Sjursen.
  • James Bond: Many recurring characters have changed actors multiple times in the Eon Productions film series, either due to them getting too old or for other reasons, since the series has been around since 1962.
    • Bond himself was played in the film series by Sean Connery (1962-1967), George Lazenby (1969), Sean Connery again (1971), Roger Moore (1973-1985), Timothy Dalton (1987-1989) and Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002) while Daniel Craig (2006-2021) is a full reboot (more on that later). A seventh actor will be announced in either 2022 or 2023. On the first non-Connery Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring Lazenby, after the film's trademark opening action sequence results in this film's "Bond Girl" running away from him, Bond looks directly into the camera and quips "This never happened to the other fellow!" However, the fact that Blofeld doesn't at first recognize him when he pretends to be Hilary Bray suggests that a plot element was carried over from the initial draft of the screenplay, in which Bond was explained to have undergone plastic surgery. However, in the original book, this is indeed their first meeting.
    • Felix Leiter has appeared in ten films in the Eon Productions series so far, and has been played by seven different actors. The only ones to have played him more than once are David Hedison — whose appearances were non-consecutive (in Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill), opposite two different Bondsnote  — and Jeffrey Wright in the Daniel Craig continuity. Before the Craig continuity, absolutely no attempt was made at maintaining continuity in terms of age and appearance, with the character alternating between young and middle aged and thin and portly. (Allegedly, this was to nip any danger of Leiter becoming a Spotlight-Stealing Squad, especially given the series' huge American fanbase.)
    • Miss Moneypenny was played by Lois Maxwell from 1962 to 1985, then recast with younger actress Caroline Bliss when Bond was also de-aged by the casting of Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights, and then recast again with Samantha Bond in the part in GoldenEye.
    • In the earliest Bond films, Blofeld was The Faceless, played by Anthony Dawson and voiced by Eric Pohlmann. Then in the consecutive films You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever, Blofeld was recast for each movie, played respectively by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas and Charles Gray. A bald villain who is totally not Blofeld later made a cameo appearance in For Your Eyes Only, played by John Hollis and voiced by Robert Rietty. As with Felix Leiter, the films make no attempt at continuity between the different portrayals of the character, moving from meek, mild and scarred Pleasance to large, robust and earlobe-less Greek-American Telly Savalas to uber-sophisticated Charles Gray (who also had a full head of hair). Diamonds Are Forever also introduces the notion that there may be different, surgically altered individuals claiming to be Blofeld.
    • The character Q first appeared in Dr. No, referred to as "Major Boothroyd", played by Peter Burton. From the next movie From Russia with Love all the way through to The World Is Not Enough, the character was played by Desmond Llewellyn. Although "Q" is a title rather than a name, the two actors are meant to be portraying the same person as Llewellyn's Q is also named Major Boothroyd in The Spy Who Loved Me.
    • Otherwise averted by actors playing Q and M, who are meant to be different people succeeding to the titles. This is shown in-universe, with Judi Dench's character being referred to as "the new M" in GoldenEye and Ralph Fiennes's character replacing her in Skyfall, and with John Cleese's character first appearing as Q's assistant in The World Is Not Enough.
    • As the Daniel Craig era is supposed to be a Continuity Reboot this trope does not apply as of yet. Characters that were recast include Moneypenny now given a Race Lift and played by Naomie Harris and In Spectre, Blofeld is played by Christoph Waltz. However and interesting aspect of this era is that as the producers liked Dench performance they kept her. Which means that Dench plays the same character in two different continuities (be the opposite of this trope in a way), and is the first M on screen on one and the last on the other. As a new actor will be announce is unclear whether this will be a new reboot or will be in the same continuity as the previous Craig films, if is the later then it will be this trope.
  • Batman Film Series:
  • Speaking of the DCEU, Idris Elba was originally cast as the new Deadshot in The Suicide Squad after Will Smith turned down an offer to reprise his role from the first movie. However, possibly to leave the door open in case Smith chose to return in a later sequel, the script was eventually rewritten to have Elba play another DC Comics mercenary, Bloodsport, instead.
  • Back to the Future:
    • In the sequels, Jennifer is played by Elisabeth Shue, as Claudia Wells declined to reprise the role to care for her mother, who was dying of cancer. The opening shot of Back to the Future Part II was the closing shot of the original reshot meticulously with Elisabeth Shue instead.
    • Also, Crispin Glover declined to appear as George McFly, so he was made into a Fake Shemp played by Jeffrey Weissman. This sparked a precedent-setting lawsuit from Glover.
  • Kirk Douglas played the dual roles of Harrison and his brother Spur in The Man from Snowy River. When the sequel Return to Snowy River was filmed six years later, the role of Harrison was played by Brian Dennehy, and Spur was said to have died between the events of the two films, making it both The Other Darrin and a Bus Crash.
  • The youth of most of the cast of the X-Men Film Series, as well as their easily identifiable powers, made it a simple matter for them to be replaced. The character of Kitty Pryde only became a major character in the third film, and was played by different actresses in both of her prior appearances. For the record, it went Sumela Kay, Katie Stuart, Elliot Page.
  • Professor Moriarty, nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, was played by Lionel Atwill in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon and by Henry Daniell in The Woman in Green. (He was also played by George Zucco in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), but this film was made by a different studio and doesn't share the same continuity as the others, despite featuring the same actors in the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.)
  • Extremely common in direct-to-video sequels that feature the same characters from their theatrically-released predecessors. Just a few examples of many include Cruel Intentions 2 and 3, Darkman II: The Return of Durant and Darkman III: Die Darkman Die, Dracula II: Ascension and III: Legacy, The Scorpion King 2, Universal Soldier III, and Van Wilder: Freshman Year. (Direct-to-video sequels that feature the same lead actor are rare, but they exist, like Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, The Art of War II, and The Prophecy II.)
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
    • The character of Joachim, recast and slightly renamed, from his appearance in the original "Space Seed". The Expanded Universe attempted to cover this by claiming that the considerably younger looking Joachim seen in the movie is actually the son of the original Joachim, while Word of God suggested the movie version is Khan's son, and was merely named in honour of the original, who was his closest friend and ally during the Eugenics Wars (and is presumably dead by the time of the movie).
    • Lieutenant Saavik was played by Kirstie Alley in TWoK and by Robin Curtis in the following two movies.
      • An early script for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country featured Lt. Saavik as a bridge officer, with Kim Cattrall cast to play her. Cattrall objected to being the third actress to portray Saavik (and Roddenberry objected to Saavik being revealed as a traitor), but then accepted when the character was rewritten to being a previously unknown Vulcan named Valeris (and at least one piece of marketing, the film's Novelization, included an unfilmed scene in which Valeris meets Saavik, in order to reduce the Expy factor).
  • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films had Judith Hoag play April O'Neil in the first film and Paige Turco play her in the last two. Likewise, Donatello was voiced by Corey Feldman in the first and third movies but was unavailable in the second due to a stint in rehab and was voiced by Adam Carl. Raphael had a different voice actor in each of the three films (Josh Pais, Laurie Faso, and Tim Kelleher respectively). Also, Master Splinter was voiced by Kevin Clashnote  in the first two films and by James Murray in the third. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze also had François Chau replace James Saito as Shredder's on-set actor, though his lines were still looped by David McCharen.
    • As a result of the script being rewritten at the last minute, several characters who were supposed to have larger roles in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) had their parts cut down considerably. The sequel has now recast several of the parts for larger roles, with Brian Tee replacing Tohoru Masamune as the Shredder, Tyler Perry replacing K. Todd Freeman as Baxter Stockman, and Brittany Ishibashi replacing Minae Noji as Karai. And while in the first Johnny Knoxville voiced Leonardo, in the sequel the voice is also provided by his mocap actor Pete Ploszek (like with the rest of the turtles).
  • Terminator Salvation has the recasting of all returning roles (except Sarah Connor, the taperecorded voice is still Linda Hamilton).
    • Each of the Terminator sequels have a different actor portray John Connor (not counting Timeshifted Actors): Edward Furlong in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Nick Stahl in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation and Jason Clarke in Terminator Genisys. Thomas Dekker played him in the series.
    • John’s wife Kate is played by Claire Daines in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Bryce Dallas Howard in Terminator Salvation.
    • The only other actors to reprise their roles in every installment of the film franchise are Earl Boen (who portrays Dr. Silberman over the course of three films) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (who portrays a T-800 series Terminator across two models—specifically, the T-800 and T-850—and three different copies—all come off an assembly line, mind you—in the first three films and the T-800's face—Roland Kickinger portrayed that T-800's body—in the fourth). Apart from Schwarzenegger, Hamilton would've been the only other performer to appear in all four films if she didn't request an offer to reprise her role in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (her character was originally supposed to die during the film, but after Hamilton's refusal to appear, it was stated that Sarah Connor died in Mexico of leukemia, her ashes were scattered at sea by her friends, apparently in secret, and a cache of weapons was buried in her grave at the mausoleum following a closed casket funeral in Los Angeles).
    • Everybody outside of the Terminator in Terminator Genisys. Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese are justified from a meta-standpoint as this is based in the time of the original film but produced decades later, so Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn have aged. Additionally, Courtney B. Vance replaced Joe Morton as Miles Dyson, but this is less justified and even invoked Questionable Casting reactions as when we see Dyson in the altered timeline, it's 2017 and hence Dyson didn't require a younger actor like Sarah and Kyle did. The T-1000 going from Caucasian Robert Patrick to South Korean actor Byung-hun Lee could be summed up as a different disguise. However, this doesn't explain why John Connor undergoes this again, as Christian Bale was replaced by Jason Clarke, unless Bale's F-bomb meltdown on the set of Salvation cost him the part.
  • The entire original cast of Daddy Day Care is recast in Daddy Day Camp.
  • Star Wars
    • In The Empire Strikes Back, Palpatine was portrayed by veteran actress Marjorie Eaton in prosthetic makeup and voiced by Clive Revill. Ian McDiarmid replaced them in Return of the Jedi and the prequels, and then George Lucas put him in the DVDs for ESB for continuity's sake.
    • The original Anakin/Darth Vader ghost — played by Sebastian Shaw — from the '83 RotJ was controversially replaced by Hayden Christensen in the remastered edition.
    • In A New Hope, Wedge's voice was dubbed in by David Ankrum, but in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, they used the voice of the actual actor, Denis Lawson, complete with his native Scottish accent in the latter.
      • Wedge is a rare case of being The Other Darrin in the same movie. During the Death Star briefing scene, Wedge is played by Colin Higgins, still voiced by David Ankrum. For the actual X-Wing scenes, it's Denis Lawson.
    • Boba Fett was portrayed by Jeremy Bulloch in Episodes V and VI (and voiced by Jason Wingreen), but in II, it's established that the character is a clone of Jango Fett, played by Temuera Morrison. Similar to Palpatine's appearance, Morisson's voice is re-dubbed over Wingreen's dialogue in the special edition DVD release of V. Various Industrial Light & Magic employees were stand-ins for Boba in the new scenes he appeared in the special editions of IV and VI.
      • Boba Fett was already played by two different actors in his film debut, since John Fass Morton was inside the costume during the carbon freezing scene.
    • Averted, remarkably, in the case of relatively minor character Oola (the slave dancer Jabba throws to the Rancor). Professional dancer/actress Femi Taylor was able to fill what passed for her costume to film extended Special Edition scenes 14 years after originally playing the part. The Force Awakens has plenty of Role Reprise, and even the costumed roles of Admiral Ackbar and Nien Nunb bring the same guys back.
    • The role of R2-D2, previously portrayed by Kenny Baker, is portrayed by Jimmy Vee beginning with his obligatory cameo alongside C-3PO (once again portrayed by Anthony Daniels as always) in Rogue One.
    • Mon Mothma was originally portrayed by Caroline Blakiston in Return of the Jedi. Genevieve O'Reilly took over for a mostly-deleted role in the prequel film Revenge of the Sith and reprised the character more than a decade later in Rogue One.
    • Rogue One again with Guy Henry as Grand Moff Tarkin. The face of the late Peter Cushing was digitally recreated on Henry's body.
      • Tarkin had already appeared at the end of Revenge of the Sith in a brief non-speaking role, played by actor Wayne Pygram in heavy makeup.
    • In perhaps the most obvious example, Alec Guinness portrayed Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original three films, while in the prequels he was replaced with Ewan McGregor.
    • Peter Mayhew reprised the role of Chewbacca in The Force Awakens, but Joonas Suotamo played Chewbacca in the more physically-demanding scenes. Suotamo then took over the role altogether from The Last Jedi onwards.
    • Peter Serafinowicz voiced Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace before being replaced in Solo by Sam Witwer, who had voiced the character extensively in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. According to Serafinowicz, they did have him record the lines from Solo as well but ultimately chose Witwer's version instead.
  • Anne Cusack replaces Courteney Cox as Melissa Robinson Ventura in Ace Ventura Jr., Pet Detective.
  • Plan 9 from Outer Space is probably the most ignoble example: after Bela Lugosi died in the middle of filming, he was replaced by Tom Mason, Ed Wood's chiropractor, who had to hold a cape in front of his face to cover up the fact that he looked nothing like Lugosi. He was also much taller than Lugosi, so he spent the film hunched over.
    • This example overlaps with the Fake Shemp trope as well.
    • Lugosi was never alive during filming in the first place. The film was made with a tiny amount of Lugosi footage filmed by Wood previously, and the chiropractor played Lugosi's character during virtually the entire film!
  • Lampshaded in the second George of the Jungle, when the narrator stops to ask who the title character (played by Chris Showerman) is, to which he replies, "Me New George. Producers too cheap to pay Brendan Fraser." Other references to Fraser appear throughout the movie.
  • In The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns, the role of Evy O'Connell is played by Rachel Weisz. However, in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, her role was taken over by Maria Bello when Weisz declined. Her first scene shows her at a book reading/signing event with several discrete camera angles showing an arm, her downturned head, etc. Eventually, one of her audience members asks her if it's true that the main character was based on her own experience. In the greatest Lampshade Hanging since The Oracle's explanation for her new appearance, the camera zooms in on Evy's face for the first time as she says, "Honestly, I can truly say she's a completely different person."
  • Always done with Clark Griswold's children Rusty and Audrey in the National Lampoon's Vacation series, always fluctuating in age and appearance, to the point that Vegas Vacation hung one on this when Clark remarked during their first appearance that he hardly recognizes them anymore. Christmas Vacation 2 had no Rusty (nor Clark nor Ellen, for that matter, as this one stars Cousin Eddie), but the Audrey from the original Vacation (Dana Barron) does return, making her the only actor the play a Griswold kid in more than one movie.
    • Parodied in this Old Navy commercial featuring no less than three Audreys and three Rustys two of these, New Audrey and New Rusty being exclusive to this comercial. Sadly Johnny Galecki aka Christmas Rusty is not one of them.
  • Omar Epps replaced Wesley Snipes as Willie "Mays" Hayes in Major League II. This gets a Lampshade Hanging when people say that he thought he was too good for the team after becoming a hotshot action movie star.
  • The Tom Clancy film series:
    • In the 90s-era Jack Ryan films, both the character and his family change completely between movies. Alec Baldwin (who played the role in The Hunt for Red October) went through scheduling conflicts for the second film (Patriot Games) and didn't return, being replaced with Harrison Ford (the actor the studio wanted for the role to begin with, but wasn't available for Red October).
    • Gates McFadden (who played Cathy Ryan) was replaced by Anne Archer for the two subsequent films. A combination of scheduling conflicts (she was on a year-long hiatus from shooting Star Trek: Generations) and her role being reduced to The Cameo (most of the scenes involving her character were cut from the final print) likely played a role in her decision.
    • Louise Borras, who played Sally Ryan in Red October, was replaced by Thora Birch for the two sequels.
    • The Sum of All Fears is an interesting case, as Ford was initially in talks to star, but bowed out when script problems dragged on for years. The role was subsequently recast with Ben Affleck in the lead and reworked as a Continuity Reboot / Prequel that takes place at the beginning of Jack's career.
  • The third Addams Family film, Addams Family Reunion, did this to most of the cast who played the family due to various reasons: Raúl Juliá (Gomez) had died, Christina Ricci (Wednesday) and Jimmy Workman (Pugsley) were by this point too old (they had turned 18 at the time), and Anjelica Huston (Morticia), Christopher Lloyd (Fester) and Carol Kane (Grandmama) declined. Only Lurch and Thing retain the same actors. This is justified due to actually being a separate continuity.
    • Even earlier, the actress playing Grandmama changed between The Addams Family and Addams Family Values: Judith Malina played her in the former, while for unknown reasons she was replaced by Carol Kane for the latter.
  • After Jodie Foster played Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, Julianne Moore took over the role for Hannibal. This is no small part due to Foster (as well as writer Ted Tally and director Jonathan Demme) feeling the ending of the book, where Clarice and Hannibal became lovers, betrayed the character of Clarice.
  • Clerks features the character of Willam Black, played by Scott Mosier. Mallrats, which takes place the day before Clerks, also features the character—except now he's Ethan Suplee. We're left to assume that over the course of a night this guy lost a good fifty pounds and grew in a decent-sized beard. (The character also appears in Scott form in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.)
    • Writer/Director Kevin Smith explained at a fan Q&A that he had a film in mind entitled Clerks: The Voyage Home where Jay and Silent Bob travel back in time a day to bring back a whale (who would presumably replace Willam for a day). It's hard to tell whether Smith was joking because his response is so sincere.
  • 2010: The Year We Make Contact has Roy Scheider replacing William Sylvester (from 2001) as Dr. Heywood Floyd.
    • Averted in the case of Douglas Rain, which is interesting because the book says HAL's voice is different after he's rebooted.
  • Mother Firefly is played by Karen Black in House of 1000 Corpses and Leslie Easterbrook in The Devil's Rejects. Grandpa Hugo was played by Dennis Fimple in the first movie but wasn't included in the sequel at all because Fimple passed away.
  • Three of the four main cast in Another Gay Movie were replaced for Another Gay Sequel — Lampshaded by the mother at the beginning of the movie.
  • Dave Robicheaux is played by Alec Baldwin in Heaven's Prisoners and by Tommy Lee Jones in In the Electric Mist.
  • Liz Fraser played Mrs. Pike in Dad's Army (1971) rather than Janet Davies (who had played her in Dad's Army) at the order of Columbia Pictures.
  • Children of Dune, the sequel to the Sci-Fi channel mini-series, features a new Stilgar, a new Jessica and a new Duncan Idaho.
  • El Mariachi has the title character played by Carlos Gallardo. In the sequels Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, he is played by Antonio Banderas. Gallardo even has a cameo in Desperado.
  • Dead Like Me. Daisy Adair was played by Laura Harris in the TV series but was replaced with Sarah Wynter in the movie.
  • In a Same Language Dubbing example, the restored scenes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly had a voice actor dubbing over the late Lee Van Cleef.
    • And in the seldom seen television prologue of a A Fistful of Dollars (added by the network to soften The Man With No Name) we get a Very Much Not Clint Eastwood with his back to the camera getting a pardon from Harry Dean Stanton in exchange for taking care of the two gangs.
  • This happens to Dracula from time to time.
  • Similarly, in the classic Universal Horror series, Frankenstein's Monster was played by no fewer than four actors: Boris Karloff (3 films), Lon Chaney Jr.. (1 film), Bela Lugosi (1 film), and Glenn Strange (3 films).
    • In addition Elizabeth was played by Mae Clarke in the original Frankenstein and by Valerie Hobson in Bride of Frankenstein due to Clarke's illness at the time. This is a bit jarring since Bride picks up right where the original leaves off and Elizabeth's hair changes from blonde to brunette.
  • Luis Buñuel's film That Obscure Object of Desire features two actresses, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina, in the single role of Conchita. Who Conchita is played by changes from scene to scene, and sometimes even from shot to shot. It's unclear whether this is a comment on Conchita's mercurial nature, a comment on Mathieu's failure to see her for who she really is, or if it's just weird for the sake of weird.
    In his autobiography, My Last Sigh (1983), Buñuel explains (pp. 46–47) the decision to use two actresses to play Conchita:

    In 1977, in Madrid, when I was in despair after a tempestuous argument with an actress who'd brought the shooting of That Obscure Object of Desire to a halt, the producer, Serge Silberman, decided to abandon the film altogether. The considerable financial loss was depressing us both until one evening, when we were drowning our sorrows in a bar, I suddenly had the idea (after two dry martinis) of using two actresses in the same role, a tactic that had never been tried before. Although I made the suggestion as a joke, Silberman loved it, and the film was saved.

    The actress who caused the 'tempestuous argument' was Maria Schneider. Bouquet and Molina stepped in after she was fired.
  • In the teen romantic comedy The Prince & Me, the Prince's fiancee Paige is played by Julia Stiles. In the film's direct-to-video sequel The Prince and Me II: The Royal Wedding, Paige is played by Kam Heskin instead, who went on to play the part in the next two movies as well. Luke Mably played the the titular prince in the first two films, but declined to return for more. Chris Geere took over for the next two movies.
  • The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter was almost completely recast; only one actor reprised his role (Thomas Hill as Mr. Koreander). The sequel's sequel, The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia, was completely recast relative to both films.
  • Perry Mason
    • Perry Mason was originally played by Warren William in a series of 1930s movies. After four movies, William left; two more movies were made, with Ricardo Cortez and Donald Woods playing Mason in each of them. Then the character went to television, with Raymond Burr becoming the definitive Mason.
    • And before Barbara Hale played Mason's secretary Della Street on TV, no fewer than 5 actresses took turns playing the role in the above-mentioned film series; only Claire Dodd played Street in more than one movie.
  • In the first Hellboy, Abe is played by Doug Jones with his voice dubbed over by David Hyde Pierce. However, after seeing the film, Hyde-Pierce was so impressed by Jones' performance that he refused to be credited and convinced the producers that the character did not need a separate voice actor. In the sequel and two animated films that followed, Jones supplies his own voice, which is surprisingly similar to Hyde-Pierce's.
  • Perhaps the most extreme example of this trope is the character of Allen in Happiness and its sequel, Life During Wartime. The character was played by white actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and then black actor, Michael K. Williams, without any explanation for the complete change of the character's race. Of course, all of the characters in Life During Wartime were played by different actors than in previous Todd Solondz' films, but Allen is the most noticeable difference.
  • Matthew Broderick played Inspector Gadget in the 1999 live-action feature film adaptation. For its 2003 direct-to-video sequel, Broderick was replaced by French Stewart (for the record, with the exception of D.L. Hughley as the voice of the Gadgetmobile, none of the cast of the 1999 film returned for the sequel).
  • The Twilight Saga:
  • The Halloweentown Disney Channel movies had this happen with the lead character, Marnie Piper, who was played by Kimberly J. Brown for the first three movies, and Sara Paxton for the fourth. Not even Brown knows why she was replaced. It's usually speculated that Disney wanted a younger actress for the 4th film to keep the franchise fresh (Brown was 22 at the time whereas Paxton was 18). This is usually cited as a reason why many fans pretend the fourth film doesn't exist.
    • In addition, Benny's voice was recast from Rino Romano in the first movie to Richard Side in the second, but for his brief appearance in the fourth movie, he was voiced by another, uncredited voice actor.
  • The Live-Action Adaptation of Asterix suffer this a lot. Gérard Depardieu as Obélix is the only actor to have stayed in all movies so far, while the rest of the main cast has been constantly changed: Astérix has been the same only in the first two movies and Caesar has been played by a different actor every time (including the director of the second movie, and in the third, French legend Alain Delon).
  • Critters:
    • In the first film, Sheriff Harv is played by M. Emmet Walsh. In the sequel, he's portrayed by Barry Corbin.
    • The original film had the Krites voiced by Corey Burton, with the second, third and fourth films leaving whoever voiced the Krites uncredited. In the fifth film Critters Attack!, the Krites are now voiced by Steve Blum.
  • In the Subspecies series, Laura Tate plays Michelle in the first film, Denise Duff in the three sequels
  • The Wizarding World franchise has made it two decades and even films with only two major recastings, which is quite remarkable considering some of the cast started out so young and the production team had assumed all the kids were going to have to be recast eventually when they started. Emma Watson is reported to have thought about leaving halfway through the original series when she wanted to attend university. Inevitably she ended up deciding to defer her enrollment a year in order to finish.
    • The first major recasting came with Dumbledore in Harry Potter. Richard Harris played him in the first two films, but after his death he was played by Michael Gambon for the remainder of the series. Given the genre they could have handwaved his change in voice and appearance by referencing some magic-related cause, but chose not to acknowledge it at all. Gambon also made no attempt to imitate Harris's Dumbledore, instead playing the character in his own and sometimes quite contrasting way.
    • The second major recasting in the franchise was the role of Gellert Grindelwald between the second and third Fantastic Beasts installments. Johnny Depp was fired when he lost a lawsuit in the UK against a tabloid that fount it was legally permissible to call him a “wife beater”. The judge found, to the civil standard, that he’d abused his ex-wife Amber Heard on at least twelve different occasions and therefore it was not defamatory to call him that. The ruling came down in late 2020 during the middle of the third film's production, although allegedly he’d only filmed one scene himself. note  His replacement Mads Mikkelsen was officially signed on within three weeks of his firing. As with Dumbledore, the change goes unmentioned and the new actor didn’t chose to mimic the original in anyway. Mikkelsen plays the character much less stoically and much less overtly evil. A couple of dubs also changed from Depp's regular VA to Mikkelsen's including in Japanese where Kazuhiko Inoue replaced Hiroaki Hirata and in Latin American Spanish where Gerardo Reyero replaced Ricardo Tejedo. note 
    • The series has a handful or so instances where characters were played by extras originally before being recast later on when the characters become important players. An infamous case being Lavender Brown, who gets a Race Lift once she becomes the Clingy Jealous Girl played by Jessie Cave. Other prominent examples include Helena Ravenclaw before Kelly Macdonald was cast in the eighth and Dumbledore's brother Aberforth in the fifth movie before Ciarán Hinds was cast for the eighth.
    • Tom Riddle/Voldemort has been played by several actors. Ian Hart voiced the character in the first movie. Christian Coulson played the teenaged version in the second. Ralph Fiennes was cast as the present day version in the fourth film and stuck with it through the rest of the series. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (Ralph’s nephew) played the pre-teen version and Frank Dillane played the teen version in the sixth. Coulson, by that point, was in his late twenties so they decided to recast. Given that the Fantastic Beasts series will eventually get to his school days, it’s quite likely he will be re-cast again.
    • Ariana Dumbledore was also recast in a roundabout way between Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts due to the actor aging out of the role. She only briefly appeared in Deathly Hallows in a couple of pictures but never spoke. She was re-cast as a speaking part with an unknown child actor for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald but didn’t make it into the final product. Three years after release, MuggleNet published some pictures of her in two different outfits, one on set and one of a costume test. Their source told them that her scenes were scrapped to focus on the main plot.
  • Lestat was played by Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire and Stuart Townsend in Queen of the Damned. Also, in the former, Armand is portrayed by Antonio Banderas, who is replaced with Matthew Newton in the latter, although the character is not actually named on screen.
  • In Uwe Boll's BloodRayne films, Kristanna Loken played the title character in the first film, but was replaced by Nastassia Malthe for the sequels.
  • In Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Roddy McDowall only appears in footage from the original in the intro. Schedule problems caused Cornelius to instead be played by David Watson, though the heavy make-up and a similar voice makes it hard to notice. He reprised the role in the next film, Escape from the Planet of the Apes.
  • In the Tomb Raider films, Lara Croft was played by Angelina Jolie. In this VISA credit card TV commercial featuring the film version of Lara, she was played by Sofía Vergara.
  • In Rocky V, Robert Balboa was played by Sylvester Stallone's late real-life son, Sage Stallone. In Rocky Balboa, the character was played by Milo Ventimiglia.
  • G.I. Joe: Retaliation already ditches most of the characters in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but one of the returning ones is recast: Cobra Commander, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt replaced by Luke Bracey.
  • Josh Brolin played Dwight McCarthy in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, a role that was played by Clive Owen in the 2005 original. Possibly justified, since Dwight's appearance in the titular story takes place before his appearance in "The Big Fat Kill", and a major plot point in the graphic novel involves Dwight getting a new face via plastic surgery after he murders Damien Lord. Curiously, the plastic surgery does take place but instead of Clive Owen, we see Josh Brolin with prosthetic makeup instead.
  • Return to Nim's Island, the sequel to Nim's Island, has Bindi Irwin instead of Abigail Breslin as Nim, and Matthew Lillard instead of Gerard Butler as her father Jack.
  • In the original run of The Pink Panther films, several key characters' performers changed over time — and sometimes changed back!
  • The Charlie Chan movies went from Warner Oland to Sidney Toler to Roland Winters playing the famous sleuth.
  • In the Clint Eastwood comedy Every Which Way but Loose, Clyde the orangutan was played by an ape named Manis. In the sequel, Any Which Way You Can, the orangutan goes uncredited, but from the physical differences one can tell that it is not the same ape. Manis had matured between the first and second films, and was considered potentially dangerous (orangutans have a tendency to get meaner as they age). Sadly, the ape who portrayed Clyde in the second film died of a cerebral hemorrhage two weeks after filming was complete.
  • In Arthur (1981), the role of Susan Johnson is played by Jill Eikenberry. In the sequel, the role is played by Cynthia Sikes.
  • In The Fly (1986), Veronica Quaife was played by Geena Davis. In the 1989 sequel The Fly II, Saffron Henderson replaces her in the beginning and in a voice-over when Martin watches an interview she filmed. Geena Davis didn't want to reprise her role because the nightmare where she gives birth to a giant maggot in the first movie traumatized her so much.
  • Jurassic Park
  • In Pitch Black, Jack was played by Rhiana Griffith. In The Chronicles of Riddick, Alexa Davalos took over the role, with a new name and a completely new look. Her only explanation for how changed she was: "I'm a whole new animal." Many fans were not happy. Salt in the wound is the fact that Rhiana Griffith was willing to reprise the role - and Vin Diesel apparently wanted her, but was told by executives she needed to "toughen up" for the role.
  • Due to fan complaints that Buttercup - Prim's cat in The Hunger Games - was shown as somewhat less ugly than the book described, he was recast (as it were) for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to be more in line with Suzanne Collins's intentions.
    • Mainly people complained that the cat named Buttercup because of his orange fur was for some reason played by a black and white cat in the film.
  • Mike Brody and his brother Sean (Chief Brody's sons), the only characters to appear in all four Jaws movies, are played by Chris Rebello and Jay Mello in the original, Mark Gruner and Marc Gilpin in Jaws 2, Dennis Quaid and John Putch in Jaws 3-D and Lance Guest and Mitchell Anderson in Jaws: The Revenge. Justified, as they grow older in the course of the series.
  • In the 2010 Clash of the Titans, Andromeda was played by Alexa Davalos and was brunette. In Wrath of the Titans, she was played by Rosamund Pike, who is blonde.
  • In the 1940's Mexican Spitfire movie series, the role of Carmelita's husband Dennis went from Donald Woods (3 movies) to Charles "Buddy" Rogers (3 movies) to Walter Reed (2 movies).
  • Following the box office success of The Carpetbaggers, Paramount gave the character of Nevada Smith his own prequel. Unfortunately Alan Ladd was unavailable due to his death (in fact, The Carpetbaggers was his final movie), so Steve McQueen (actor) played the role.
  • Penguins of Madagascar:
    • The film reverts Kowalski and Private to their original voice actors in the first three Madagascar movies (Chris Miller and Christopher Knights, instead of Jeff Bennett and James Patrick Stuart, respectively, on the TV series). Oddly, Rico, who kept his original voice actor John DiMaggio for the TV series, is now voiced by Conrad Vernon, who voiced Mason the chimp in the movies and TV series. The only penguin who has had the same voice actor through every adaptation is Skipper (Tom McGrath). It should be noted all four are Dreamworks crew (in the first Madagascar, McGrath was one of the directors, Miller a story artist, Knights an assistant editor, and Vernon a creative consultant).
    • King Julien's cameo during The Stinger has him being voiced by his TV replacement actor, Danny Jacobs, instead of Sacha Baron Cohen.
  • The DC Animated Movie Universe:
  • While the live-action Transformers films were otherwise consistent with the voice actors of the robots, Sideswipe received a different voice between the second filmnote  to the thirdnote  for no real reason. Barricade also got a different voice in the third film due to an audio and animation error.
  • 22 Jump Street parodied this in the Sequel Snark filled ending sequence, which showed a series of increasingly absurd further installments in the franchise. 29 Jump Street: Sunday School features Schmidt being portrayed by Seth Rogen instead of Jonah Hill. Jenko asks Dickson if Schmidt looks different, but Dickson says he looks the same. Schmidt claims he's wearing new glasses, then whispers to Jenko, "No one's gonna fucking notice." We then see them on their mission, with Schmidt accidentally calling Jenko "Jenkins", which he quietly apologizes for. 30 Jump Street: Flight School shows Schmidt once again portrayed by Jonah Hill, and Jenko is glad he's back, to which Schmidt replies, "What are you talking about? What contract dispute? I've been here the whole time." Jenko just tells him to shut the fuck up.
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians:
    • The centaur Chiron is played by Pierce Brosnan in the original film. In the sequel, the role is taken up by Anthony Head.
    • Hermes is played by Dylan Neal for his cameo in the first film. In the sequel, where he has a larger role, he is played by Nathan Fillion.
  • Bryce Dallas Howard has done this thrice:
  • Hotel Transylvania:
  • Angel (not that one, the honor student by day/hooker by night in the '80s) had a different actress play her in all four movies - Donna Wilkes in the 1984 original, Betsy Russell in 1985's Avenging Angel, Mitzi Kapture in 1988's Angel III: The Final Chapter, and Darlene Vogel in 1993's Angel 4: Undercover. Lt. Andrews, the cop who helps Angel get off the streets in the first movie (and whose murder Angel avenges in the second), was played by Cliff Gorman in the first movie and Robert F. Lyons in the second.
  • In a cross of this with Poor Man's Substitute, many of the direct-to-video sequels and Animated Series derived from the Disney feature films have the famous actors being replaced (such as Dan Castellaneta for Robin Williams in Aladdin); the one that escaped the most was Hercules, which saw all of the original cast (save Danny DeVito and Rip Torn) returning for the spinoff series.
    • Similarly, in Mulan II Eddie Murphy could not reprise his role as Mushu due a clause in his contract for Shrek 2. Mark Moseley replaced him. Coincidentally, Moseley has also filled in for Murphy by voicing Donkey in the Shrek video games.
    • A brief in-series example, for Aladdin: At one point, Mozenrath's voice actor Jonathan Brandis was unavailable, so he ended up being voiced by Jeff Bennett for one episode. Brandis returned as Mozenrath's voice in subsequent episodes.
    • In the direct-to-video sequel to Brother Bear, Joaquin Phoenix did not return to voice Kenai. He was instead voiced by a popular actor already under contract with Disney (through his role at ABC's Grey's Anatomy): Patrick Dempsey.
    • Mostly averted by the DTV sequel to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which brings back almost all the main voice cast except for David Ogden Stiers (replaced by Jim Cummings (1952)) and the late Mary Wickes (Jane Withers, who filled in for her in some parts of the movie, took over in full).
    • The original Western continuity of the Lilo & Stitch franchise kept most of the original actors from the original film, but had a few notable changes:
    • A slight variation occurred in The Lion King (1994) with Scar. Scar was normally voiced by Jeremy Irons, but the ending portion of the song "Be Prepared" (starting with the verse "You won't get a sniff without me") was done by Jim Cummings (who is Ed's voice actor) instead of Irons due to Irons blowing out his voice during recording sessions. It also led to a Throw It In! moment when Ed uncharacteristically sang a line from the song (most of the time, Ed is either silent, or communicates via insane laughter).
      • The Direct to Video sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, on the other hand, plays this straight two times, the first being with Cummings replacing Irons outright as Scar in Simba's nightmare sequence, as Irons was under contractual obligations performing in The Man in the Iron Mask. The second time was when Rowan Atkinson turned down an offer to reprise his role as Zazu in the sequel to avoid conflict with his work in Bean; Edward Hibbert replaced him (the third actor to voice the character after Michael Gough).
      • The parallel direct-to-video sequel The Lion King 1 ½ had Jonathan Taylor Thomas replaced by Matt Weinberg as the voice of cub Simba. Hibbert again replaced Atkinson as Zazu due to conflicts with Johnny English and Love Actually.
    • The sequels to Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians and The Jungle Book (1967) had none of their cast return as they either died, retired or were too old to reprise their roles, this was most likely understandable as they were released decades after the 1950s and 1960s.
  • The Made-for-TV Movie The Point manages to have three Other Darrins in spite of being, well, a movie; for its initial airing the movie was narrated by Dustin Hoffman, but for contractual reasons he was replaced on later (and, outside North America, all English language) airings by Alan Barzman initially and then Alan Thicke, with the VHS (and later DVD) release narrated by Ringo Starr.
  • Disney Fairies:
    • In Tinker Bell, Fawn was voiced by America "Ugly Betty" Ferrera; Angela Bartys took over for Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and the next few movies; Ginnifer Goodwin voiced her in Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast.
    • In addition, Rossetta was originally voiced by Kristin Chenoweth for the first three features. The character has since been voiced by Megan Hilty.
  • Arthur and the Invisibles:
    • Three of the characters, Maltazard, Selenia, and Darkos, were recast for the sequels. Maltazard was originally voiced by David Bowie, but was replaced with Lou Reed, Selenia was originally voiced by Madonna, but was replaced with Selena Gomez, and Darkos was originally voiced by Jason Bateman but was replaced with Iggy Pop.
  • Hellraiser:
  • Friday the 13th - Pamela Voorhees and Tommy Jarvis are both portrayed by multiple actors throughout the series. Not to mention Jason himself, though for a while there was consistency as Kane Hodder played him for four movies.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street - Kristen was played by Patricia Arquette in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, while singer Tuesday Knight took over the role for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. This change is usually attributed to Arquette's pregnancy.
  • Halloween:
    • Michael Myers rarely had a consistent actor, sometimes even within the same film.
    • In Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, J.C. Brandy took over for Danielle Harris as Jamie Lloyd, who played the role as a child in the previous two films. Harris even sat down for an interview for the 2014 Blu-ray release to discuss why she chose not to return. Apparently producers had wanted to recast the role from the beginning of production with an actress over 18, but Harris (17 at the time) got herself legally emancipated so she could work on the film. However the role was heavily reduced at the last minute, and Harris refused to work for scale, in part because it would not even cover the court costs she spent to get herself emancipated. She also disagreed with the script, and was not happy with how she was being treated by the production team. That said, Harris later returned to the franchise in the Rob Zombie reboot films, albeit as a different character.
    • Tommy Doyle is played by Brian Andrews in the original film, Paul Rudd in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, and Anthony Michael Hall in Halloween Kills. Rudd was approached to reprise his role in Kills, but was unavailable due to him being busy with Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
    • Lonnie Elam is played by Brent Le Page in the original film, and Robert Longstreet in Halloween Kills.
  • Cars series:
  • Because several of the actors involved in the 1960s Batman series had passed on before Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders was made, they were replaced with different actors for the voices.
  • Agnes in Despicable Me 3 is voiced by Nev Scharrel instead of Elsie Fisher, like in the first two films.
  • While the Oz stories have been adapted enough times that switching performers doesn't usually raise eyebrows, Fairuza Balk's casting as Dorothy in Return to Oz was nonetheless jarring. Chalk it up to Adaptation Displacement and Misaimed Marketing. See, Walt Disney Pictures marketed the movie as a direct sequel to the most iconic Oz adaptation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz, which featured seventeen-year-old Judy Garland as Dorothy. In truth, while Return to Oz did borrow some elements from the MGM version (like the magic shoes being ruby instead of silver, and Oz potentially being All Just a Dream), most of the movie was more in tune with L. Frank Baum's original Land of Oz series. So even though eleven-year-old Balk was ironically closer to the original Dorothy's age, a lot of viewers were surprised because they expected someone resembling Garland but got Balk instead.
  • The Cannonball Run:
    • The "Lamborghini Ladies", Marcie and Jill, were played by Adrienne Barbeau and Tara Buchman in the first film and Catherine Bach and Susan Anton in the second. Also, they were only named in the credits in the first film, but their names are finally mentioned on screen in the second.
    • The two guys in the stock car are played by Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis in the first film. Tillis returned for the second, but Bradshaw was replaced by Tony Danza. In an odd turn of events, they also weren't given names for the first film but named Terry and Mel for the second. So, Terry is an example of The Danza in the first film and the Trope Namer for The Danza in the second.
  • RoboCop 3 sees Robert John Burke replace Peter Weller as Murphy, due to a combination of Weller doing Naked Lunch after having a bad time filming RoboCop 2 and Orion starting to collapse, resulting in them wanting to cast an actor similar in size to Weller to save money and modifying the suits from 2 for Burke to wear. Burke is on record as saying wearing the suits got painful after a while.
  • Almost all the characters in Disney's Christopher Robin were recast with mainly British voice actors, one exception being Pooh himself, with Jim Cummings reprising the role he first performed in the beloved Saturday morning cartoon adaptation. Cummings playing Tigger as well was due to the initial recast performance of Chris O'Dowd as Tigger being received negatively by test audiences, where he then walked from the film. As such, Cummings filled in and reprised Tigger.
  • Teen Wolf Too, the sequel to the surprise hit Teen Wolf, has Stiles and Coach Finstock return with different actors. Only two actors from the original reprise their roles, while the main character is a Suspiciously Similar Substitute due to Michael J. Fox not returning.
  • Max from The Secret Life of Pets was voiced by Louis C.K., but is voiced by Patton Oswalt in The Secret Life of Pets 2 following the former's sexual misconduct allegations in 2017.
  • Of the four leads in Another Gay Movie only Jonah Blechman reprised his role in Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! The film opens with a Wizard of Oz-style sequence in which the replacements are introduced with the explanation that the agents of the original actors warned them not to play gay too often because of the danger of type casting.
  • As with Louis C.K., T.J. Miller got #MeToo'd out of his How to Train Your Dragon role and was replaced with Justin Rupple as the voice of Tuffnut in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
  • Warriors of Virtue: Mario Yedidia is replaced by Nathan Phillips as Ryan Jeffers in the sequel.
  • In The Woman, Darlin' Cleek was played by Shyla Molhusen. In the sequel Darlin', she's played by Lauren Canny.
  • Maleficent had Brenton Thwaites playing Prince Phillip. He was unavailable to reprise the role in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Harris Dickinson replaced him.
  • The 25th Anniversary Edition Re-Cut of Bedknobs and Broomsticks has an interesting case of this, due to the fact that some of the dialogues for the deleted scenes were unrecoverable, this caused Disney to have them redubbed, Angela Lansbury and Roddy McDowall reprised their roles so they could rerecord their own lines, but some characters who had actors that either died or were too old had new ADR actors for these parts. While David Tomlinson was still alive while the 25th Anniversary Edition cut was being made, he was unable to do the role due to being in his 70s and was in ill-health, which sadly meant that Jeff Bennett had to subsitute for him. However, there were slight hiccups during the dubbing, such as Mrs. Hobday's accent changing from Welsh to Scottish and back again, Charlie sounding nothing like Ian Weighill, and Emelius Browne sounding a bit off.
  • In-Universe played for laughs in the 1995 TV movie The Adventures of Captain Zoom. An arrogant 1950s TV actor is whisked away into space by an alien race who mistakenly believed he's his heroic sci-fi hero. He goes along with it with only a few allies knowing he's just an actor. At one point, he sighs on how he feels sorry for the folks back on the show who are now out of work as there's obviously no way the show can go on without him. Gilligan Cut to the show's set where they've simply hired a new actor with the explanation of the hero needing special surgery to get a new face and the show runs for several more years.
  • While most of the voice cast for Batman: Under the Red Hood returned for DC Showcase – Batman: Death in the Family, Vincent Martella, who voiced Jason Todd as Robin in both productions, replaces Jensen Ackles as Jason as Red Hood. It is because the new footage that features Jason as the Red Hood sees him don the identity years earlier than he did in the original film.
  • In Teen Titans (2003), the Master of Games was voiced by Jim Cummings (1952). In Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, he's voiced by Rhys Darby. Granted, he also looks different and the version in the film is actually the Trigon of Go.
  • The original Walking Tall (1973) had a couple of made for TV sequels that starred Bo Svenson instead of Joe Don Baker. Plans to hire the actual Buford Pusser fell through after he died of a car crash.
  • Toy Story 2: For his cameo, Geri from Geri's Game is voice by Jonathan Harris rather than Pixar Regular Bob Peterson, who'd played him in the original short.
    • Meanwhile on the American side of things, this would mark the first time in several years that Barbie got a voice actor that wasn't Chris Anthony Lansdowne, who had been voicing her in nearly all tie-in media such as commercials, talking toys, and interactive games up to this point, as Jodi Benson provides the voice for her in this movie. Subverted in that she did not have an established voice in the Toy Story universe.
  • In the European French dub of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Camélia Jordana voiced Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen. Shirine Boutella replaced her in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
  • In the European French dub of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Henri Guybet replaced the late Michel Galabru as Vlad Dracula.
  • Wayne Westhorpe played Little Arthur in Mutiny on the Buses, but Adam Rhodes took over the role in Holiday on the Buses.
  • The Exorcist:
    • Pazuzu is voiced by a different actor in each film, being played by Mercedes McCambridge and Ron Faber in The Exorcist, Karen Knapp in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Colleen Dewhurst in The Exorcist III, Rupert Degas in Exorcist: The Beginning, and Mary Beth Hurt in Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist.
    • Several other examples specific to The Exorcist III:
      • Lee J. Cobb died in 1976, so the part of William F. Kinderman was recast with George C. Scott. A bit of a meta Brick Joke, as Scott also plays another character previously played by Cobb: Juror #3 of 12 Angry Men. George C. Scott was a pretty good choice to replace the (deceased) Lee J. Cobb as Lt. Kinderman in this sequel, not only on account of his similarly craggy facial features, but because Cobb and Scott appeared on stage in many of the same roles, often as ornery, curmudgeonly characters.
      • Father Dyer was originally played in the first film by the Reverend William O’Malley, a real-life Jesuit priest. O'Malley decided not to pursue acting any further after that film, and was replaced by Ed Flanders in this film.
      • Father Kanavan (the elderly priest murdered in the confession booth played by Harry Carey Jr.) was the same character played by Father Thomas Bermingham (an actual Jesuit Priest) in The Exorcist.
  • To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You replaced Jordan Burtchett with Jordan Fisher as John Ambrose. That said, Burtchett's role in To All the Boys I've Loved Before is a mid-credits cameo (and canonically does not happen in the books).
  • In Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a younger Furiosa is portrayed by Anya Taylor-Joy, succeeding Charlize Theron from Mad Max: Fury Road. Since Hugh Keays-Byrne passed away in 2020 before the filming happened, another actor portrays Immortan Joe.
  • All of the cast of Up Pompeii barring Frankie Howerd were replaced for the film:
    • Michael Hordern was the third Ludicrus Sextus after Max Adrian and Wallas Eaton.
    • Barbara Murray took over Ammonia from Elizabeth Larner.
    • Madeline Smith took over Erotica from Georgina Moon.
    • Royce Mills took over Nausius from Kerry Gardner.
  • The official Russian dub of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was produced in Georgia instead of Russia itself due to many Hollywood studios boycotting the country following the invasion of Ukraine. As a result, all returning characters were re-cast. For example, Andrej Bibikaŭ replaced Vsevolod Kuznetsov as the titular character, while Kitty Softpaws, voiced by Tatiana Shitova in the previous film, is now voiced by Diana Nersesova.
  • Done In-Universe in Bolt. At the end of the film, Bolt and Penny quit the Show Within a Show and a new trained dog and child actress are cast to replace them, explained in the show as Penny getting Magic Plastic Surgery due to severe burns.
  • Confessions of a... Series: Mrs. Lea was at first played by Dandy Nichols, then Doris Hare in all the sequels.
  • After The Mouse That Roared, Peter Sellers did not return for The Mouse on the Moon so his roles of the Duchess and Prime Minister were played by Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody respectively.
  • Due to Mary Poppins dating back to 1964 and its cast being too old or having passed away long ago, every role was inevitably recast for Mary Poppins Returns.
    • Emily Blunt replacing Julie Andrews as Mary, of course.
    • Dick Van Dyke returns but doesn't play an older Bert, he has been cast as Mr. Dawes Jr. instead, replacing Arthur Malet, who passed away of natural causes in 2013. It's also a case of Actor Allusion and Identical Son, since Van Dyke played Mr. Dawes Sr. in 1964.
    • Emily Mortimer plays Jane Banks, succeeding Karen Dotrice, who's in her 60s.
    • Ben Whishaw plays Michael Banks. Matthew Garber died at the age of 21 in 1977 due to pancreatitis.
    • Julie Walters plays Ellen the maid. Hermione Baddeley passed away of a stroke at age 79 in 1986.
    • David Warner plays Admiral Boom. Reginald Owen died of a heart attack in 1972 at age 85.
    • Jim Norton plays Mr. Binnacle. Don Barclay passed away in 1975 at age 82.
  • On the Buses: Nobby was played by Patrick Connor, then Norman Mitchell in the series. In the film, he's now played by Terry Duggan.
  • Dad's Army (2016) has the original characters played by a brand-new cast of actors (barring Frank Williams as The Vicar), as almost all of the originals had sadly died. These replacements are:
    • Toby Jones playing Mainwaring instead of Arthur Lowe (died 1982).
    • Bill Nighy playing Wilson instead of John Le Mesurier (died 1983).
    • Tom Courtenay playing Jones instead of Clive Dunn (died 2012).
    • Bill Paterson playing Frazer instead of John Laurie (died 1980).
    • Blake Harrison playing Pike instead of Ian Lavender (too old to play Pike but played Brigadier Pritchard, himself originally played by Robert Raglan, who died in 1985).
    • Michael Gambon playing Godfrey instead of Arnold Ridley (died 1984).
    • Daniel Mays playing Walker instead of James Beck (died 1973).
    • Martin Savage playing Hodges instead of Bill Pertwee (died 2013).
    • Sarah Lancashire playing Mrs. Pike instead of Janet Davies (died 1986).
    • Alison Steadman playing Mrs. Fox instead of Pamela Cundell (died 2015).
    • Annette Crosbie playing Cissy instead of Nan Braunton (died 1978) or Kathleen Saintsbury (died 1995).
    • Julia Foster playing Dolly instead of Amy Dalby (died 1969) or Joan Cooper (died 1989).

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