History Main / LoopingLines

* The superhero film ''Film/MadameWeb'' became infamous for this (and other bizarre moments) upon its release. Among other issues, many of the characters are obviously dubbed at moments. It happens most to the character Ezekial Stone, the film's BigBad, who has so little dialogue that is ''not'' obviously looped to a nearly comical degree. The sound mixing is also off, making him sound as if he is in a different location than the characters he is speaking to. However, he is ''not'' the only character that has his lines looped. Multiple sources behind the scenes revealed that the movie underwent multiple reshoots to cut out and replace whole swaths of plot. While the exact details of what the original plot was have yet to be revealed publicly, it does appear that the Stone's entire motive and plan were rewritten mid-production, but his scenes were ''not'' reshot for unknown reasons, necessitating looping to make sense of his character.

* The superhero film ''Film/MadameWeb'' became infamous upon its release. The character it happens most to is the main villain of the film, Ezekial Stone, who has so little dialogue that is not obviously looped to the it could almost be mistaken for comedy. The sound mixing is also off, making him sound as if he is in a different location than the characters he is speaking to. However, he is ''not'' the only character that has his lines looped. The reason for this is that the movie underwent multiple reshoots to cut out and replace whole swaths of plot. While the exact details of what the original plot was have yet to be revealed publicly, it does appear that the Stone's entire motive and plan in the film were rewritten mid-production.

* The superhero film ''Film/MadamWeb'' became infamous upon its release. The character it happens most to is the main villain of the film, Ezekial Stone, who has so little dialogue that is not obviously looped to the it could almost be mistaken for comedy. The sound mixing is also off, making him sound as if he is in a different location than the characters he is speaking to. However, he is ''not'' the only character that has his lines looped. The reason for this is that the movie underwent multiple reshoots to cut out and replace whole swaths of plot. While the exact details of what the original plot was have yet to be revealed publicly, it does appear that the Stone's entire motive and plan in the film were rewritten mid-production.

This is much more common than you may think. As a rule of thumb, listen carefully to how an actor speaks. If the delivery suddenly sounds much more polished and in the foreground, they've been ADR'd (though a good sound mixer can blend the recording in well enough so it actually sounds like it was said on-location). This technique is used on a wider and more noticeable scale in Asian live-action productions, particularly UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} and Japanese {{tokusatsu}} and ''{{Dorama}}'' television serials. There is even a specialized sub-set of voice actors known as "scream artists" who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dub screams]] and grunts over others' performances to better convey emotions and actions while preserving stars' voices and saving time.

* Very rarely a line is dubbed over quickly days or hours before broadcast of a series to remove a line in the wake of a tragic event where a punchline which was fine days before would now go over like a lead balloon, as in when Lauren Graham redid a ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' one-liner punchline about Bali to instead be Maui days after the Bali nightclub bombings. However the UsefulNotes/ClosedCaptioning track had already been laid down (which is much, much more complicated to fix, requiring almost a complete re-do of a scene), so viewers with it on still saw the Bali reference.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' -- the entire trilogy -- was dubbed in post: the enormous noise of the on-set fans and the assorted background noise made it impossible to hear any of the dialogue spoken while recording. Only Bilbo's speech at the party was used, as Creator/IanHolm couldn't recreate the [[EnforcedMethodActing drunk tone]] while looping those lines sober. That gave the sound editors quite some work.