David Dukes Death - What Changes Were Made?
I am aware the script had to be modified slightly to accomodate Dukes' passing, but does anyone know of any specific changes made that were meant to include Dukes?
shareSadly no one knows. I have wondered the same in an older thread. I have a feeling like he might have lived while Emery might have died, and I think Mrs Waterman would have died sooner too. Since we see Bolinger dragging Mrs Watermans body through the trees and I figure at that point she was meant to be dead, but since they had to kill Miller off so soon due to Dukes death, they killed him and made Mrs Waterman live longer and end up inside the house.
shareAh yes, I seem to recall hearing in one of the featurettes that they expanded Mrs. Waterman's part to help fill in the blanks. One can also tell that almost all of the scenes featuring Miller running through the woods were done with a double. Probably they just decided to wrap up his plot in the woods and let Mrs. Waterman become the main victim inside the house.
I'm also quite sure that Miller was going to die either way. I seem to remember reading that Dukes was scheduled to shoot his death scene on the day after he passed away. Ironic, eh? But also very sad.
Did you see the even more ironic note in Dukes' IMDb biography?
According to it, his wife had just written and published a book called Life After Death, in which a woman caught her husband cheating and, in hurt and rage, told him, "Why don't you just go and die?"
The cheating husband character in the book dropped dead the next day while playing tennis. Shortly after the book was out is when Dukes died on the tennis court.
NO connection whatsoever implied that the cheating aspect applied to Dukes, either in IMDb's write up or what I'm repeating here!!! The extremely odd part is the tennis court cardiac death of a relatively young man in both cases.
Also the fact that from that brief description of the book and its title, it's likely about a woman living the rest of her life with her heart agonizing over the many possible connections of if/how her words could have helped cause his death somehow. And now his poor widow is in such an eerily similar situation.
That is super creepy *shivers*
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