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Alan Rickman’s final scenes: Fans will get the chance to watch the actor in two more films made before his death that will be released this year
- Alan Rickman fans will be able to see final big screen appearance this year
- The film Eye In The Sky with Helen Mirren and Aaron Paul released in April
- It follows Rickman's death, announced today by his family, at the age of 69
- He has also voiced character in new film Alice Through the Looking Glass
Moviegoers will get the chance to watch Alan Rickman's final appearance on the big screen later this year in two yet to be released films the Harry Potter and Robin Hood star made before his death.
The 69-year-old passed away in hospital this morning, surrounded by relatives and friends, following a secret battle with cancer.
His death comes just months ahead of the release of a new film called Eye In The Sky in which he stars alongside Dame Helen Mirren and Aaron Paul.
The thriller, about the ethics of drone warfare, is set to open in UK cinemas on April 8, according to IMDb. Rickman had also completed another film due for release later this year in which he voices a computer-generated character.
Final scenes: The death of Alan Rickman at 69 comes just months ahead of the release of his last onscreen film Eye In The Sky. He plays a senior military official in the film (pictured), due to be released in April
Onscreen: Rickman's character helps to oversee a counter-terror mission which is complicated when a young girl is seen next to a group of terrorists being targeted by a bombing raid. The thriller stars Dame Helen Mirren
The actor is voicing Absolem the Caterpillar in Alice Through The Looking Glass, an adaptation of the Lewis Carroll book which is a sequel to 2010's Alice in Wonderland.
His computer-generated character talks to Alice during her surreal quests. Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska (Alice) reprise their roles in the sequel, which is due out in the UK and US on May 27.
Depp plays the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway the White Queen and Helena Bonham Carter the Red Queen. Sacha Baron Cohen, Rhys Ifans and Matt Lucas also star, while Stephen Fry and Timothy Spall voice characters.
In Eye In The Sky, Rickman plays a senior military official helping to oversee a counter-terror mission which is complicated when a young girl is seen next to a group of terrorists being targeted by a bombing raid.
His co-star Mirren stars as Colonel Katherine Powell, who is in command of the top secret drone operation in Kenya. Remote surveillance and on-the-ground intelligence leads her to discover the targets are planning a suicide bombing, a development which escalates the mission from 'capture' to 'kill'.
But it is at this point that the nine-year-old girl enters the kill zone, just as American pilot Steve Watts, played by Aaron Paul, is about to engage.
According to a synopsis on IMDb, the complication sparks an international dispute at the highest levels of US and British government about the moral, political and personal implications of modern warfare.
The thriller, about the ethics of drone warfare, is set to open in UK cinemas on April 8, according to IMDb
Rickman (left) stars in his new film, called Eye In The Sky, alongside Helen Mirren (right) and Aaron Paul
Computer-generated: The star had also completed another film set for release later this year called Alice Through The Looking Glass. In it he voices the character Absolem the Caterpillar (pictured)
Rickman revealed last year that he had secretly married his long-term partner Rima Horton, whom he had been in a relationship with since 1977, in a New York ceremony in 2012.
His family said in a statement today: 'The actor and director Alan Rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. He was surrounded by family and friends.'
Rickman's brother David, 71, added: 'He passed away this morning. He was in a hospital at the time.'
The actor, who was born into a working-class family in London, began his career on the stage before graduating to Hollywood films.
He became one of the best-known villains in showbiz - appearing as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films.
The actor's other well-known films include Truly, Madly, Deeply, Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually, in which he played the husband of his frequent collaborator Emma Thompson
