> I ask, because Q retires of course, and then a few months later, Lewellen dies. So, as I heard, the producers went back and drew scenes of Q from past movies, and put them together, giving Q the speech about retiring, in order to make his disappearance from the movies work.
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> Is that true?

Nope. That had been planned well before Llewelyn died. In fact, the film was released a little more than a month before the man passed.

Stephen