Leslie Nielsen’s Final Film was never Completed
Posted by Rodneyon 30. 11. 2010in News Chat
After news of Leslie Nielsen’s passing, director Bryan Waterman has come out of the woodwork claiming to have the last film Nielsen ever worked on.
The film is not complete as it was an animated feature that Neilsen voiced a part it. His performance was complete but the film ran out of money before they were able to animate it.
Leslie Nielsen’s last movie — a small budget animated film — may never see the light of day … because after Leslie voiced his part … producers couldn’t afford to pay for the final animation.
Nielsen finished his voice work over a year ago, according to the director of the movie, Bryan Waterman. He tells TMZ that a “great deal” of production still has to be done before the movie can be released — and by a “great deal” he means the majority of the animation.
It might be sad, but bringing attention to this unfinished project that Nielsen was involved with might be the event that gets someone to finance it.
Hollywood is made of vultures that would strike at the opportunity to promote a film only after its main star has died.
Hopefully if it does get made, the movie will be good and fitting to Nielsen’s career, and not a money grab crapfest that just monopolized on the news of his passing.
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I’m weary of the the idea of trying to release a movie that had been shelved because a main star in it has died (remember Wagon’s East?). But at the same time my fears might be misplaced.
SCAM.
Gee, someone trying to make money and get attention off of someone’s death. The problem is that it will probably work.
It’s typical BS in our New World Order.
So his last movie was “Spanish movie”??
I believe that the director had a kickstarter.com project going to help fund the rest of his movie that included a trailer that showcased some of the scenes Leslie Neilsen had voiced and was involved in. Needless to say, it didn’t look very good and that’s probably why it never got finished. Not to be too critical of the dead, but Neilsen’s voice acting sounded old and tired. Kind of like he knew that the project he was voicing wasn’t any good and would never see the light of day so he was just there to cash the check and move on.
Good for him. The trailer looked awful!
Maybe this movie will become the next “Thief and the Cobbler”, a movie that began production in 1964 and finally came out in 1995 after years of financial hell. Vincent Price actually finished recording his lines for the movie in 1973 and had been deceased a good 12 years before the movie came out.
I’m not saying that this will end up to be the same situation, but I’m at least interested in seeing this movie just to pay tribute to Neilsen.