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* Kinji Fukasaku refused treatment in order to film ''[[Battle Royale]] 2,'' but died after directing only one scene. His son Kenta finished it.

* Simultaneously [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and subverted in Bob Fosse's ''[[All That Jazz]]''; a fictionalized account of Fosse's own life story, including a serious heart-attack which occurred during one of the most stressful periods of his career -- while producing both the film ''Lenny'' and the ''Chicago'' stage musical simultaneously. A heart attack that he survived; but which his [[Expy]] didn't. The question of whether the "play within the film" would ever be completed is left hanging; although previous scenes strongly hinted that it would be simply scrapped.

* The Polish film ''Passenger'' (''Pasazerka'') suffered AEF when director Andrzej Munk died suddenly in a road accident. The film is a series of flashbacks. When Munk died, many of the scenes taking place in the present day were unshot. His assistant decided to use still images for these scenes.

* After ''[[Halloween Resurrection]]'', series producer Mustapha Akkad died, dashing hopes for the original series to continue.

* Jack Chalker set up a huge cliffhanger with Horrors of the Dancing Gods, leaving {{spoiler|his main hero (originally a Barbarian Warrior) now in the form of an immortal (even by immortal standards) wood nymph (oh, and she's pregnant by the Big Bad with who knows what), his son in love with a young girl with male genitalia, the second main character having switched to the evil side of thing...}}

* [http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=30610 Nothing else] is coming out after [[Harlan Ellison]] dies:

* [[Gordon R. Dickson]] died after completing the 9th of an unknown number of books in his [[Dragon Knight]] series, leaving Jim Eckert's journey from 20th Century grad student to Master Magickian incomplete. The 11th book in his more famous [[Childe Cycle]] series, ''Antagonist'', was completed by his assistant and friend David W. Wixon and published in 2007.

* Pierre Bothero, a French writer of four seperate series that all intertwined, died shortly after writing a book introducing a fourth world, two new societies, and a plentitude of new characters to the mythos, and writing a somewhat cliffhanger ending at the end of this book.