List of works published posthumously

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The following is a list of works that were published or distributed after the parties involved in its creation died.

Contents 1 Films 1.1 Films whose director died before the release 1.2 Films whose actor/actress died before the release 2 Literature 3 Music 4 See also

[edit] Films

[edit] Films whose director died before the release

• Eyes Wide Shut, premiering July 13, 1999 after filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's death on March 7 of the same year.
• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976), following Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder.

[edit] Films whose actor/actress died before the release

In several cases, actors or actresses have died prior to the release of a film. In the case that the actor dies during filming, their scenes are often completed by stunt doubles, or through special effects.

• Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956), following the death in an automobile accident of actor James Dean in September 1955, just days after filming on the latter was completed. He received a posthumous Best Actor Oscar nomination for Giant.
• Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), following Bela Lugosi's death. He died before filming began. Stock footage filmed for an unrealized Ed Wood project was inter-cut with new footage featuring a double that looked nothing like Lugosi.
• The Misfits (1961), released on what would have been actor Clark Gable's 60th birthday. He had died three months earlier of a heart attack, brought on in part, according to later reports, by the stress of difficulties working with co-star Marilyn Monroe.
• Enter the Dragon (1973), following Bruce Lee's death.
• Brainstorm (1983), nearly two years after the drowning death of actress Natalie Wood, who was acting in the film at the time.
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), following the death of Vic Morrow, in a helicopter accident on the set, which also claimed the lives of two child co-stars.
• Orson Welles died shortly after voicing Unicron for Transformers: The Movie.
• UHF (film) (1989), following the death of Trinidad Silva
• Jetsons: The Movie (1990), following the deaths of George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc, the respective voices of George Jetson and Mr. Spacely.
• The Crow (1994), following actor Brandon Lee's death from an accident while filming
• Wagons East! (1994) and Canadian Bacon (1995), both following the death of John Candy.
• Bullet (1996), Gridlock'd (1997) and Gang Related (1997), all released following the death of Tupac Shakur.
• Almost Heroes (1998) and Dirty Work (1998), both following the death of Chris Farley.
• Gladiator (2000), following the death of Oliver Reed.
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), following the death of Jim Varney, who voiced Cookie Farnsworth.
• Queen of the Damned (2002), following Aaliyah's death.
• Bad Santa (2003), following John Ritter's death.

[edit] Literature

• Douglas Adams — The Salmon of Doubt
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Shira
• Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation
• Jane Austen — Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (novel)
• Mikhail Bulgakov — The Master and Margarita
• Samuel Butler — The Way of All Flesh
• Albert Camus — The First Man
• Charles Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Rene Daumal — Mount Analogue
• Ralph Ellison — Juneteenth
• Gustave Flaubert — Bouvard et Pécuchet
• Ian Fleming — The Man With The Golden Gun
• Ian Fleming — Octopussy and the Living Daylights
• E. M. Forster — Maurice (novel)
• Anne Frank — The Diary of a Young Girl
• Julius Fučík — Notes from the Gallows
• F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Last Tycoon
• Robert A. Heinlein — For Us, the Living, written in 1939, but not published until 2003, 15 years after his death.
• Franz Kafka — The Trial, The Castle and Amerika
• Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
• Irène Némirovsky — Suite française
• Flann O'Brien — The Third Policeman
• Wilfred Owen - almost all of his poems, the first edition being 24 Poems (1920)
• Karel Poláček — There Were Five of Us (Czech Bylo nás pět)
• Dr. Seuss — Daisy - Head Mayzie
• Yaakov Shabtai — Past Perfect ("Sof Davar")
• J. R. R. Tolkien — The Silmarillion
• Leo Tolstoy — The Living Corpse, Hadji Murat
• John Kennedy Toole — A Confederacy of Dunces, The Neon Bible
• Jules Verne — Le Phare du bout du monde, Paris in the 20th Century

[edit] Music

• Queen album Made in Heaven was released three years after the death of frontman Freddie Mercury
• MTV Unplugged in New York, on November 1, 1994 after singer/songwriter/gutairist Kurt Cobain's death on April 5 of the same year; also From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, Nirvana, With the Lights Out and Sliver: The Best of the Box.
• R U Still Down? (Remember Me), Until the End of Time, Better Dayz, Tupac: Resurrection, Loyal to the Game, and Pac's Life were all released after Tupac Shakur's death on September 13, 1996.
• Two The Notorious B.I.G. albums.
• Rapper Big L released The Big Picture
• Closer, in August 1980, after the suicide of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis on May 17 of that year. The remaining members of Joy Division later went on to form New Order.
• Most of the extensive catalogue of American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. In his lifetime, Hendrix only saw the release of three albums by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, a compilation by the same group, and a live album by the Band of Gypsys.
• The self titled album from California ska group Sublime was released after singer/songwriter/gutairist Bradley Nowell's 1996 heroin overdose death.
• De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas was released following the murder of Mayhem's guitarist, Euronymous.
• The live album Ballot Result by the punk band The Minutemen was released two years after the death of lead singer/gutairist D. Boon in a van accident.
• Apple, the sole album by grunge band Mother Love Bone was released days after lead singer Andrew Wood's death
• "You Know You're Right", a song recorded on January 30, 1994 at Bob Lang Studios during Nirvana's final studio session. Released eight years after Cobain's suicide in April 1994.
• Mystery White Boy and Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk were released after the death of Jeff Buckley
• Various home recordings by Nick Drake have been released since his death to satisfy growing interest in his work.
• American V: A Hundred Highways was released after Johnny Cash's death.
• From a Basement on the Hill, released after Elliott Smith's death.
• The Beatles' songs "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love," wherein the three surviving Beatles overdubbed onto home recordings by John Lennon.
• Brainwashed by George Harrison, completed by producer Jeff Lynne and son Dhani Harrison.
• Coda by Led Zeppelin, released two years after the death of John Bonham.
• Donuts and The Shining, by J Dilla.

[edit] See also

• Unfinished work