15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently
Man plans, God laughs, the movie production adapts.
![15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/5/761915_320x180.jpg)
Taking something from a rough outline to a finished work is less of a well-defined process and more like fumbling around in the dark while trying to get a bedsheet off yourself. In light of that fact, please enjoy these 15 stories of scenes that kind of strayed pretty far from the original idea:
![Johnny Depp wanted Captain Jack Sparrow's nose to be missing. As an act of rebellion against his own selling out to Disney, he suggested that Jack sho](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/761913.jpg)
Source: 6 Of Your Fave Characters (Who Nearly Sucked Out The Gate)
![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 wit](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/761911.jpg)
![Originally, the Green Goblin's name in Spider-Man was totally literal. They were going to directly copy the character's look from the comics, making h](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/0/761910.jpg)
![District 9's aliens could have looked like hobos. Sthee Sa An early idea was that they'd have such sensitive skin, they'd cover themselves with whatev](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/761912.jpg)
![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 (an](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/7/761907.jpg)
![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 organis](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/8/761908.jpg)
![In Star Wars, Jabba the Hutt was going to be a big, walking furry alien. KO And his voice would be the thick brogue of Northern Irish actor Declan Mul](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/9/761909.jpg)
![Birdman was supposed to end with a joke about Johnny Depp. After Michael Keaton's character shoots himself on stage, the movie was going to cut to him](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/4/761904.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/5/761905.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![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, thi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/6/761906.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/3/761903.jpg)
Source: Esquire
![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 G](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/9/761899.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects
![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,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/0/761900.jpg)
Source: SyFy
![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 f](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/2/761902.jpg)
Source: New York Times, Variety
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/1/761901.jpg)
Source: FilmSchoolRejects