Just wondering if someone was committed enough to make such a movie
Boyhood was shot over 12 years following the same cast.
There’s the “Seven Up!” series by the BBC. They filmed a bunch of kids at age 7, and then again at 14, 21, 28, etc.
The first was filmed in 1964 and 63 Up was filmed in 2019.
It’s not as impressive as some of the other projects mentioned here, but there was a one-year hiatus during the filming of Cast Away to allow Tom Hanks to lose all (and more) of the weight he had gained for the first part of the movie. His beard and tan were earned honestly during that time as well.
Not a single movie but that happened with several actors in both Star Wars and Star Trek. Or in Harry Potter. Puberty was good to Neville’s actor.
It has also happened in many TV series where you can see a kid grow up to adulthood.
It could have happened with the movie Coffee and Cigarettes which started filming in 1986 and was released in 2003. It consists of several short episodes. But as far as I recall none of the actors of the earlier episodes came back for one of the later episodes.
Flight of the Navigator.
David Scott Freeman was 12 at the start, and still with us eight years later…
Not sure this meets the requirements. Sure, there’s time travel in the story, but the film was shot in 2 years.
