10 Last Minute Changes That Saved Movies And 5 That Ruined Them

Making

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is a difficult process, costing millions of dollars and putting countless careers at stake. I like to live dangerously. A hit could make Bank at the box office and a flop could ruin an entire studio. Our favorite

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decisions of Hollywood heavyweights and newbie filmmakers alike, so join Screen Rant as we break down these 10

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some of our favorite movies and 5 more that ruin some of our most beloved franchises, listen to me very Movies are often carefully made in the editing room, editors improvising various pieces of footage developing the tension of the film, focusing on the film's point of view and putting everything together like a giant puzzle with the script and the director's guide, while George Lucas gets all the credit for creating Star Wars the success of that first film and the very existence of its sequels is due to the work of his editing team editors Richard Chu Paul Hirsch and wife by George Marsha Lucas were so integral that they won an Oscar for their work and their biggest contribution was that they

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the ending, the Death Star trench run was originally much longer and lacked all the tension at the beginning.

Luke was supposed to make two flights through the trench, this was reduced to a single tour, also the fact that The Death Star was preparing to fire on the rebel base was added at the insistence of the producers. Marsha explained that the audience needed to applaud when Han appears at the end, and she was ultimately right. Terminator 2 Judgment Day might not be one of the most highly regarded sequels. of all time if it was released with its original ending, visionary director James Cameron planned for the final scene of his film to move several decades into the future in this alternate timeline following the destruction of both the good t800 and the bad t1000 that John Connor had. grew up to become a prominent politician and Sarah lived in DC with her family as a well-adjusted grandmother, this would have been a big change from the militant fugitive from justice we see in most of the film and while this ending is certainly fun.

What if it lacks the impact of the actual theatrical ending? Hugh Jackman was the breakout star of the X-Men movies and Wolverine was the most popular antihero of the group. It was such a huge hit that it spawned several spin-off films even though the original X-Men trilogy focused primarily on Wolverine, either way, Jackman is perfect for the role and has only gotten better with age. Sure, playing the role in two decades of movies has definitely helped, but he's somehow managed to remain as timeless as the immortal Logan, so it's actually a bit shocking to consider that he wasn't originally cast in the role in the first film. from John is courting the Mission: Impossible sequel where he played the villain and this commitment required Scott to leave Marvel's first mutant film.

The X-Men production team was forced to scramble to replace him, allowing Jackman to step in and become a box office star. When you realize how last minute this replacement was, Jackman's turns, Wolverine is actually even more impressive. The Wizard of Oz is one of the most beloved films of all time, but one element that really revolutionized the film industry today seems to have been The Wizard of Oz's easiest effect: the transition from the black and white of the canvas to the color of Oz, although the filmmakers had always planned to incorporate this element into the film, no one involved in the production seemed to put much thought into making it a reality at the time.

True color films were relatively new to Hollywood. Fortunately, the production team under the leadership of producer Marvin Leroy decided to film additional footage of Kansas and it was for the shot of Dorothy leaving her house for munchkin land that the director decided to paint the interior of Dorothy's House (several shades of black and white) Judy Garland herself remained unchanged in her trademark blue dress and red curls, but the darkness on the set meant that she would not appear in color until she entered the Technicolor set of Munchkinland. This impressive introduction to Oz made the movie that has much more impact Tom Hanks has the best reputation in Hollywood he is full of charisma he is treated like movie star royalty and yet he seems like an average guy even when he plays a nasty guy there is still something about him that we, the audience, sympathize with.

So it may be a little surprising to learn that one of his most popular characters, Woody from Toy Story, was originally considered too unlikeable. Halfway through production on the first film, the Pixar team realized that Woody was too much of an idiot like Hanks. He put it himself so Pixar quickly stopped voice and animation work on Toy Story to restructure the script and tone down Woody's evil tendencies. The final product is a film that is still spawning sequels almost two decades later, in the late '90s and early 2000s. Mike Myers was On a hot streak fresh off his breakout success on Saturday Night Live, Myers found stardom in comedy cult with Austin Powers, which exploded into a beloved film series;

Well, let's pretend that the third one didn't happen, but rather his other franchise that made millions. at the box office was the animated fairy tale mash-up known as Shrek. The role of Shrek was originally intended for another SNL icon, Chris Farley, when Farley tragically passed away. Myers is hired to voice the gentle Green Giant at the time Mike Myers was content to voice. the role in a heightened version of his natural Canadian accent, yes, you thought wrong, but after hearing a sample of John Lithgow's arrogant British accent, Myers decided to congratulate him, whether the audience noticed or not, they would subconsciously assume that Shrek was of a lower status.

Lord Farquaad's rewrites and re-recordings reportedly cost around $4 million, but the film's profits more than made up for that money. Some last-minute

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are made so close to the wire that they occur days or even hours before the film's release. After the film's debut, While Cats is a more recent film that became famous for the adjustments made to its effects after release, the late great Stanley Kubrick was much more of a perfectionist. Kubrick was known for being a perfectionist who constantly tweaked every aspect of his films. From the scripts to the sets, the costumes and the shots throughout the production, he even pushed some of his actors to their limits.

His horror classic The Shining became a Halloween staple, but at the time of its release, Kubrick wasn't so sure. how it would initially be received the film had an epilogue after Jack freezes in the maze, but viewers felt it was confusing the final scenes of the film. Kubrick Zoo sent out an order and movie theater projectionists were asked to remove the epilogue from the film. I literally had to cut out the final scene of the movie with scissors and then glue the movie back together. Now let's go back in time to 1985, co-writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale had concocted a time-travel family comedy with a souped-up DeLorean. and a strange mother-son dynamic with Zemeckis in the director's chair and Steven Spielberg as the steady producer.

What could go wrong during principal photography? Zemeckis and Gale began to feel that they had originally cast the wrong actor for the role of Marty McFly. was played by Eric Stoltz, yes, although it's almost impossible to imagine anyone other than Michael J. Fox and the role Stoltz had cast in the role after spending a month trying to make his interpretation of Stoltz work, his interpretation of the character It was too serious. The filmmakers had a difficult conversation with Stoltz before reaching a deal with the producers of the Fox comedy. Family ties allowed him to work around the clock on both the show and the movie.

It was a grueling schedule, but he saved Back to the Future and made it. In the incredible movie that is talked about today about actors who hardly played iconic roles, Harrison Ford was not originally Indiana Jones. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had a completely different star in mind and this one had a mustache, while Spielberg always wanted Ford to grab. the Whip and Don the Fedora Lucas didn't want to work with anyone he had collaborated with before, but the situation changed and SELEX's commitment to the hit CBS television show magnum p.i didn't allow him to take on the role, so Spielberg and Lucas decided to continue with their backup plan, Harrison Ford and his story, Ford also landed the role of Han Solo thanks to his previous connections with George Lucas, having played a small role in American Graffiti during auditions for Star Wars.

Ford served as reader reading the sides. With actors trying out roles in the film, his laid-back attitude so impressed the casting director that Ford ended up being the one to land the role of the cocky intergalactic smuggler. Ford seems to owe his entire career to Lucas, even though two of his three roles have been assigned to him as an afterthought. I've already been more than I bargained for on this journey When Disney bought Star Wars, they intended the sequel trilogy, Episode Seven, Eight and Nine, to be their flagship film, but one of the most iconic moments in recent Star history.

Wars come from the epic battles and brave characters of Rogue One. It's hard to imagine that the movie was almost made as an afterthought to capitalize on Disney's Star Wars bonanza, even Rogue One's grand finale was basically an idea. last minute. Additionally, the final sequence in which Darth Vader cuts through hallways with lightsabers through Alliance soldiers and tracks down Leia's ship was handled in reshoots, apparently the creative team felt that the ending, as originally intended, lacked of the punch that only a Darth Vader rampage could deliver. I've heard the success stories and now is the time for cinematic tragedies, it may seem corny now, but Superman, the films starring Christopher Reeve as the man in tights, was a mind-bending sci-fi superhero epic.

The film was a huge undertaking because the producers decided However, in the back-to-back Superman 1 and 2 films, this team was notoriously difficult and often clashed with director Richard Donner because Donner demanded quality work and quality cost

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more time and more money when Superman 1 was released, producers abandoned Donner despite its success and he hired British director Richard Lester of The Three Musketeers and Beatles film fame to finish Superman 2 while most of the sequel was in production. can. Lester decided to reshoot more than 50% of the film. Superman 2 is still a much-loved film and received rave reviews when it was originally less so, but there's no denying that it's also a lot campier than one with slapstick action sequences, strange new powers for both Superman and General Zod, and a generally ironic tone.

It took Richard Donner 26 years until 2006 to release it. His cut of the film and even the full Cadillac footage for many sequences. Part of the appeal of the Alien franchise is that each film seems to be made independently of the others. The franchise doesn't seem to have been a big source of income. Of the producers, I mean before the last few years, they didn't have a massive shared universe in mind and the previous movies didn't really try to set up sequels and that was part of the problem with Alien 3, the first two movies were so scary.

Hexa So intense and so popular was Gordie Weaver nominated for an Oscar for her work as Aliens in 1986 that the third film was a tough nut to crack for the creative team. What are we going to do? Director David Fincher, who has since proven to be a Hollywood visionary was often at odds with the studio, they continued to re-edit the film and force changes against its will until Fincher was finally removed from production when the film was released. finished product, most fans and Hollywood insiders considered it a disappointment. In 1988, the diehard changed the way we thought about action movies and Christmas movies until his first two sequels mimicked the formula, but we still found ways to stay excited and then came live free or die hard after an absence. 12 years of the big screen.

John McLean was starting to show the Age of he took a friend to the Christmas party by mistake. I'm sure ofThat the film still has its moments and has a much higher tomato and throttle score than its predecessor, but Live Free or Die Hard was the first film in the franchise to have a page 13 rating. While the film was filmed with with an R rating in mind, it was re-edited at the studio's insistence to appeal to a wider audience. This version reduced the violence and even shortened McLean's original catchphrase to simply yippee-ki-yay the original. The edit was restored for the DVD release, bringing back the violence and bringing back the famous PKA ending, but fewer fans have seen this version than the original theatrical release and there is still an unfavorable reaction associated with this film.

I Am Legend doesn't get a There's a lot of love among moviegoers and it's probably for this reason that the movie loses all meaning of the book. In the film, Will Smith's character lives in a post-apocalyptic New York City that is overrun by zombie vampires. Naturally, the film is full of sequences in which Smith mercilessly blows up these creatures, and since they appear to be violent, bloodthirsty monsters, we fully root for the guy originally in Will Smith's final confrontation with these creatures. He learns that they are as afraid of him as he is of

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. The human and vampire zombies noticed. they're not so different after all everyone learns a lesson I Am Legend refers to Will Smith's character he is the legendary monster these creatures fear it's a philosophical idea that deepens the movie and apparently it was too deep for test audiences, they were so Discouraged by the mutual understanding of the ending, the filmmakers changed it.

Will will firebomb his way through the now mindless monsters and ride off into the sunset with other survivors. This change paid off in the short term, but ultimately made I Am Legend a more forgettable film, and finally, let's delve into Star Wars, the rise of Skywalker, where was he? Episode 9 went wrong, well the original version of Colin Tavros' script was quite different, it focused more on the personal battle between Kylo Ren and Rey, while Princess Leia was more central to the film as this draft was completed. before the untimely passing of Carrie Fisher. Luke Skywalker had more to do well, each character, including Rose, was given some useful objective in the lead-up to the final battle.

In the end, this draft seems to do a better job of tying up not only the loose ends of the sequel trilogy but all of the other trilogies. Additionally, when Fisher left the divided Last Jedi fandom, the people at Lucasfilm struggled to unite behind a single idea, so JJ Abrams took over and threw everything and the kitchen sink at the film. It was great to have Palpatine back, but his presence undid Luke. Skywalker's victory at the end of Return of the Jedi and rumors of infighting at Lucasfilm led to a lot of reshoots because the creative team couldn't seem to agree on how to end the franchise, in the end it seems there were also a lot of cooks in Star Wars Test Kitchen are not very reassuring.

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