Philip Seymour Hoffman's character Plutarch Heavensbee won't be digitally recreated in the upcoming "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1."
In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson explained how the production tweaked the scenes in order to finish the films.
"We finished the majority of his work. I think he might have had eight to 10 days left on our schedule. In most of those scenes, Phil didn't have any dialogue," Lawrence said. "We are going to put him into those scenes, but we're only using real footage. We're not creating anything digital or a robotic version of him."
Jacobsen confirmed the production will be using existing footage to edit in the late actor's remaining parts.
"We had to rewrite the dialogue scenes that he had left and there's no question that shooting those scenes is painful without him," Jacobsen told the Herald. "We might give a line of Plutarch's to Haymitch or Effie, but only in circumstances that we are able to do that without undermining the intent of the scene."
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" has released their first teaser for the film in the form of a video interview with actress Julianne Moore, who dished about her character President Alma Coin.
"I've read all the books all the way through and I'm like, 'I want to be in this movie.' Clearly [Coin] was the only part I could play. Coin is very sparingly drawn because you don't know who she is because she's only spoken about through Katniss' point of view," Moore said.
"And Katniss immediately distrusts her in the way sometimes a young person will distrust an older person whose not familiar to them or in position of authority. So [the director] and I talked about it a lot, about how do we communicate Coin's wholeness as a person. I think Katniss's response to her is very well drawn, but you don't know who Coin is."
You can watch the full interview in the video below. "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" will be released to theaters Nov. 21, 2014.
