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35 Last-Minute Movie Changes for Better or Worse

July 24, 2023

Have you seen the original design for the Green Goblin in 2002's Spider-Man directed by Sam Raimi? It can only be described as a “Weird Lil Muppet Situation,” and the mask that he ended up donning was a significant improvement.

Meanwhile, in the same movie, Hugh Jackman was apparently going to cameo as Wolverine. The only reason this didn’t happen was because the costume wasn’t available at the time. Even though we’re all poisoned by superhero cameos in today’s blockbuster landscape, we can all agree that would have blown every 11-year-old’s mind, right? How do we Into the Spider-Verse our way into that timeline?

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The NeverEnding Story

CRACKED.COM THE NEVERENDING STORY Atreyu was supposed to have green skin. Despite having some of the most awesome special effects of the time, and being the most expensive movie ever made outside of the US and Russia, they couldn't make the green work. Noah Hathaway recalled I looked like fungi!. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Peter Pan

When Peter Pan first made its debut (it was a play before it was a book), Peter and the Lost Boys could fly on their own. When children kept injuring themselves by jumping from their beds, author J.M. Barrie added the rule that the characters needed fairy dust to fly. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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The Jungle Book

The vultures from The Jungle Book are a barbershop quartet instead of a rock group because Walt Disney wasn't a fan of The Beatles. Originally, We're Your Friends was supposed to be have a Beatles sound to it, but Disney thought that they were a fad, and decided to go with something timeless. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Return of the Jedi

CRACKED COM In Return of the Jedi, Luke has a blue light- saber in the posters, but a green one in the movie, because it had to be visible against Tatooine's blue sky. RETURN STARWARS DES THE OF JEDI MARK HAMILL HARRISON FORD CARRIE FISHER BLLY DEE WILLIAMS -ANTHONY DANELS... - - - - - - RCHARD MARQUAND NOWNOKAZANSAN ...GEORGE LUCAS ...LAWRENCE KASDAN_GEORGE LUCAS GEORGE LUCAS WILLIAMS - - - - - - - — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Predator

35 Last-Minute Movie Changes for Better or Worse — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Eraser

The name ofthe villain company in Eraser was changed from Cyrex to Cyrez at the request of a chip manufacturer named Cyrix® FasMath™ CX-83D87-40-GP 1980 Cyrix USA CRACKED.COM The CGI and dubbing for this last-minute change took an extra week of editing. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Spider-Man

CRACKED.COM SPIDER-MAn Many people know that there was almost a very different Green Goblin mask, but not why. Amalgamated Dynamics created and tested the mask on the right, but were told by Raimi that he didn't think it would be believable for a mask to move as precisely as it did. You know, in the movie about the teenager who gets superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Sesame Street

On 123 SESAME STREET Snuffleupagus stopped being imaginary because of child molestation. Relax, we're not accusing Snuffy of sticking his trunk in bad places; we're talking about the audience. Originally, the other characters thought of the elephant as Big Bird's imaginary friend, with Big Bird unable to convince anyone otherwise. This changed after a number of news stories involving child molestation. The show's writers feared that if Big Bird couldn't convince anyone of the truth, abuse victims watching the show might think that no one would believe them either. CRACKED COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Bird Box

The Bird Box monsters were never shown because the design they had planned looked ridiculous. There was an actual scene shot that revealed the monster, but its design made the whole crew burst out laughing. According to Bullock it looked like a green man with a horrific baby face. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

26

RoboCop

The shooting location inspired Paul Verhoeven to make RoboCop walk on water. The day before filming, Verhoeven saw the big walls that reminded him of the walls of Jerusalem, so he had Robo walk on water (alluding to Jesus) even though it wasn't in the RoboCop script. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

25

Homeland

They came up with the ending of Homeland a day before it was shot. Despite many script drafts and discussions, they couldn't settle on a good reason for Carrie to stay in Moscow until 24 hours before filming started - v when they came up with the idea for her to be writing an expose of the CIA. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Blade Runner

A fight scene got cut from Blade Runner. When Deckard and Gaff search an apartment and find the snake scale, they were supposed to pull down a Murphy bed from the wall, releasing a replicant hiding inside who would fight them. There was no money for it, though. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

23

Total Recall

They made up Benny's death scene in Total Recall on the spot. That part of the script was being rewritten when they were supposed to shoot the scene, but they had props and makeup ready, so Mel Johnson Jr. (Benny) suggested they just wing it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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James Gunn

In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Quill was supposed to believe Ego right away, while Gamora distrusted him. But the story started making sense to James Gunn only when he swapped their reactions around. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Tomorrow Never Dies

CRACKED.COM TOMORROW NEVER DIES was supposed to be Tomorrow Never Lies after the producers and director decided that the title with 'Dies' did not make much sense. However, as the chosen title was being faxed over to MGM, an assistant mixed up the titles and sent Tomorrow Never Dies instead. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

20

Avengers

CRACKED COM A Captain America's Avengers costume lost the chinstrap because Joss Whedon wanted to show off Chris Evans' jawline. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

19

John Carter

The movie adaptation of the John Carter Of Mars novel series was plainly titled John Carter because... Disney JOHN CARTER MARS NEEDS MOMS Mars Needs Moms had flopped catastrophically the previous year. Disney wanted to prevent moviegoers from connecting the two. The new film flopped anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

18

Gone Girl

A devoted Red Sox fan, BEN AFFLECK refused to wear a New York Yankees cap in GONE N GIRL Affleck locked horns with director DAVID FINCHER, and shut down production for four days until Fincher relented and let him wear a Mets cap. CRACKED COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Alien 3

The chestburster in Alien 3 was supposed to be played by a very good boy. They wanted to make the alien take on some of the traits of the host organism, so they dressed up a dog, since the alien burst out of a baby ох. But the dog looked too funny, so they dropped the idea. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Predator

The initial idea was for the Predator to be kind of a space duck ninja. They got Jean-Claude Van Damme, of all people, to play him, but booted him (and the creature design) from Predator when they realized that approach wouldn't work, halfway through the shoot. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

15

Alien: Covenant

Originally, David was supposed to do a Hitler-style kick while walking through the ship at the end of Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott axed the idea, thinking it'd look ridiculous. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

14

Logan

The initial idea was for Xavier to live in an upright water tank in Logan. They thought it'd be awkward for Logan to go down a 200-foot ladder all the time, but they couldn't think of anything better -- until the model of the tank accidentally got flipped over, giving them the solution. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

13

Hot Fuzz

POLICE LICE HOT FUZZ Hott Fuzz became Hot Fuzz so Simon Pegg wouldn't be asked in Q&As about the second 't.' CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Spider-Man

Hugh Jackman was supposed to have a small cameo as Wolverine in the original Spider-Man. As awesome as that would have been, it didn't happen because Wolverine's suit was lost in storage at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

11

The Lovely Bones

Ryan Gosling was supposed to play Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones. However, the role was given to Mark Wahlberg at the last Schneider اليوم minute because Mortiner Gosling decided to the - L - - - put on 60 pounds for the role, even though no one asked him to do so. Не remarked that the incident had . FOR RE RE left him fat and SANT GIR unemployed. CRACKED COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Clueless

CRACKED.COM CLueLess Dave Chappelle was nearly cast as Murray in Clueless. In an odd twist, his delivery of Murray's slang seemed too sincere to the director. When Donald Faison auditioned, he wasn't as convincing, and his bad acting won him the role. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Finally, the Reason for Bryce Dallas Howard’s Heels in ‘Jurassic World’

All the running in heels stuff from Jurassic World wasn't meant to be in the film. Colin Trevorrow, the director, says he kept asking Bryce Dallas Howard to change her footwear, but the actress insisted on wearing the heels because it fit her character. GRAGKED.COM

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District 9

District 9's aliens could have looked like hobos. Bodbex Sarttex adidas An early idea was that they'd have such sensitive skin, they'd cover themselves with whatever they found nearby - from plastic bags to traffic signs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

7

Alien: Resurrection

The hybrid in Alien: Resurrection was originally a sexual horror. It had a combination of male and female genitalia, and they shot the whole movie with that design. But director Jean-Pierre Jeunet said that even for a Frenchman, it's too much, and they edited out the genitalia in post-production. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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In Star Wars, Jabba the Hutt was going to be a big, walking furry alien. And his voice would be the thick brogue of Northern Irish actor Declan Mulholland. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

5

The Little Mermaid

Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989) CRACKED.COM was supposed to be blonde. ANNIVERSARY 20th EDITION TOM HANKS DARYL HANNAH EUGENE LEVY JOHN CANDY GRAN GRAZER Splash DVD After huge arguments, she got red hair because the mermaid in Disney's rom-com Splash (1984) was blonde. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Men in Black

CRACKED.COM MIB MEN IN BLACK It wasn't originally set in New York City but director Barry Sonnenfeld changed it. Не decided that aliens would most likely go to New York because nobody would notice their weirdness. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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October Sky

October Sky October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys, the title of the book written in 1998, upon which the movie is based. Apparently, the title was changed, because according to the research of marketing team, women over thirty would never see a movie titled Rocket Boys. Sometimes one dream is enough to light up the whole sky. OCTOBER SKY BASED ON AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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This Is The End

CRACKED COM THIS IS THE END Emma Watson was set to appear during Channing Tatum's cameo scene as Danny McBride's gimp. However, the sight of Tatum in a thong freaked her out so much she refused to be in that scene, although it was already written in the script. — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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The Shining

In accordance with the book, some spine-chilling scenes from the horror movie, THE SHINING, were to occur in a hotel room numbered 217. Unfortunately for fans, the room number was changed to 237 because the hotel seen in the movie actually had a 217, and management worried that their future guests would fearfully avoid it. CRACKED COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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