The Digidestined meets Valérian and Laureline

The Digidestined meets Valérian and Laureline is a 2019 space opera film written, produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve and screenwritten by Eric Heisserer. The film stars Thomas Mann, Alex Wolff, Jackson Robert Scott, Kathryn Newton, Josh O'Connor, Caleb Landry Jones, Max Irons, Cara Delevingne, Jeff Bridges, Rihanna, Wiz Khalifa in his acting debut, Timothy Olyphant, Takuya Kimura, Frances McDormand, Scoot McNairy, Hank Azaria, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jared Leto as Gennai with David Tennant, Ewan McGregor and Andrew Garfield portraying transformations of Leto's character as he "disguises himself" threw locations and features the voices of Mathew Baynton, Nick Swardson, Daniel Kaluyya, John Goodman, Isaach de Bankolé, Danai Gurira, Michael Palin, Jason Alexander and Jillian Bell
the late Anton Yelchin originally portrayed Takuya Kanbara, appearing in the sequel's initial marketing before his death. However, when he died after he shot his scenes, the role was forced to be recast with Thomas Mann and causing the film to switch release date from December 15, 2017 to March 2, 2018. Scenes were reshot just three months after re-shoots with Thomas Mann were wrapped.
==Plot==
==Recasting of Takuya Kanbara==
on June 19, 2016, Anton Yelchin died outside his LA home, when his parked Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled backward on his steep driveway, pinning him against a brick pillar and security fence who had been cast as Takuya Kanbara for Sonic Cinematic Universe. His passing also resulted in Netflix announced that TrollHunters (a show with the late Anton Yelchin also attached before he died) to be recast with his friend Emile Hirsch from Alpha Dog and it also resulted in the producers of Star Trek saying that the role of Chekov would not be recast and the character would be written out of JJ Abrams's subsequent films. On November 8, 2016 it was announced that three months worth of reshoots, which began on November 20, had been commissioned to replace Yelchin with Thomas Mann in the role of Takuya Kanbara. the role was recast with Thomas Mann. Scenes were reshot three months claimed he was prepared to replace the late Anton Yelchin as Takuya Kanbara on short notice because he had previously been considered for the role and had read the script. He had less than a month to memorize Anton's lines. After the recast, Anton's parents Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin praised Denis Villeneuve and SCU (Sonic Cinematic Universe) for the recast of the late Anton Yelchin's character saying "We're praised for our late son to be recast to be ready for this franchise, was the last thing that our son wanted."
==Trivia==
*Denis Villeneuve cites Black Panther and Terry Gilliam's style of direction (Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Tideland and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) and his work with Monty Python as an influence on the film: "We are starting Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is Marvel Cosmic, and we're doing exactly what they did with the first Iron Man film."
*The re-shoots needed to replace the late Anton Yelchin with Thomas Mann took three months to film to takeover Anton’s scenes. It also involved the cast and crew members to reshoot Anton’s scenes.
*After the late actor Anton Yelchin was forced to be replaced by Thomas Mann, director Denis Villeneuve and producer Marc Platt decided not to show Mann any footage of Yelchin in character, or even tell him how Yelchin did his scenes. When finished, Villeneuve and Platt found both the late Yelchin and Mann’s performances to be quite different and equally effective in their own particular styles.
*Denis Villeneuve and Thomas Mann gave all the income they received for this movie to Yelchin’s parents Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, so that their late son might be praised by their son’s replacement actor.
*Thomas Mann claimed he was prepared to replace the late Anton Yelchin as Takuya Kanbara on short notice because he had previously been considered for the role before Anton was cast and then shoot his original scenes before his untimely death and had read the script. He had less than a month to memorize Anton’s complete lines.
*On November 8, 2016, Sonic Cinematic Universe unanimously was forced to replace Anton Yelchin as Takuya Kanbara with Thomas Mann due to his untimely death after shooting his scenes. As a result of his untimely death and reshoots the film release date switched from December 15, 2017 to March 2, 2018.
*The decision to re-film the Anton Yelchin footage with Thomas Mann as a forced replacement meant that thirty scenes had to be re-shot.