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Fri 07 Jul 2008Death is not always the end
For decades, film-makers have found novel ways to handle the unexpected death of a star, writes Joe Griffin
"WHO'D want to see a dead person," Jack Warner bluntly asked when James Dean passed away before Giant was released. Judging by the ticket sales for The Dark Knight, a lot of people do. Th'e untimely death of a pivotal protagonist is an age-old problem in Hollywood, and one that has been tackled in various, often imaginative ways.
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