Why Disney will take millions from the death of Carrie Fisher?

The company, which bought Lucasfilm in 2012, was addressed to Lloyds of London in order to protect itself from any…
losses, if the actor was not in a position to cover the contract, with regard to the appearances of the actor in the Star Wars trilogy, as reported by the magazine Insurance Insider. The contract states the amount of 41 million dollars in case the actor fails to complete the cycle of the film.
The 60-year-old actor, who has renewed her role as princess Leia, she died in the hospital 4 days after he suffered a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles.
The Fisher had already completed the shooting for the second of the new movies expected to be released in December 2017, but the fans were waiting to see her in the 3rd movie, the shooting of which have not yet started.
The insurance policies covering large movie companies the unexpected death or any incapacity of the actors, it is not unusual in the film industry.
At present it is not clear how it will respond to the Disney to the death of the Fisher.
Star Wars is not the first franchise movie of Hollywood which is threatened by the unexpected death of a actor.
The last part of the film “The Hunger Games” lost one of its stars, Philip Seymour Hoffman, in 2014, but managed to complete the last movie, after they had filmed most of the scenes of the actor before his death.
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