30 Ways Famous Movies Were Almost Extremely Different
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Begin with a general statement about the topic to set the scene for the reader.
Despite what some people might think, making a movie is no easy feat. In fact, it's a huge undertaking that requires the efforts of many different people working together towards a common goal. From the screenwriter who develops the initial idea to the actors who bring the story to life on screen, there are countless people involved in making a movie. And, of course, as with any large project, there are bound to be plenty of changes along the way.
Revisions and rewrites of the script, to changes in casting, to last-minute adjustments on set, there are countless ways that a movie can change during production. But ultimately, all of these changes are made in service of creating the best possible movie. So next time you're watching your favorite film, remember all of the hard work that went into making it and appreciates all of the little changes that helped create the masterpiece you see on screen!!
![BOBA FETT DREW INSPIRATION FROM CLINT EASTWOOD. The Empire Strikes Back Fett was originally going to sport a poncho - emulating the Man with No Name from For a Few Dollars More. The idea was dropped because the poncho proved to be impractical. His suit was also all white initially but George Lucas thought it looked too clean and had it painted to look more wartorn. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/4/806934.jpg)
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![No Time To Die was supposed to reveal that Spectre was just a dream. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga thought it'd be cool to reveal that everything that happens in Spectre after the needle goes into Bond's head happened inside his mind. COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/3/806933.jpg)
![The first idea for Supernatural was really a rip-off of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. It would be about a reporter who drove around in a van and wrote about urban legends, but the studio asked for a new idea - which became Supernatural. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/2/806932.jpg)
![RALPH COULD'VE BEEN A ONE-HORNED MONSTER. Wreck-It Ralph at a Time ON Ralph drastically changed appearances several times during early production. Everyone's favorite bad guy started off as a horned monster, then became a caveman, before finally morphing into his iconic look. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/1/806931.jpg)
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![The Minions were originally going to be robots, not whatever-they-ares. It'd be more fun to watch robots than actual humans get knocked around, the thinking went - - plus, it'd be more believable for robots to be totally naive. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/0/806930.jpg)
![THOR ALMOST ROCKED A JACK KIRBY-INSPIRED LOOK. Thor: Ragnarok Before going with the more traditional gladiator look, Taika Waititi commissioned a Thor design that drew heavily from Kirby's art. Even though it wasn't used in the film, we can't but notice that the suit kinda resembles the Quantum suits used in Avengers: Endgame. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/9/806929.jpg)
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![In an early draft, Rocky was going to meet the Pope in Rome in Rocky III. Rocky's final fight would be in the Coliseum in Rome, and he'd go to St. Peter's Basilica. Sly was desperate to work in an audience with the Pope, too. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/8/806928.jpg)
![THE GREEN GOBLIN WAS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AN ACTUAL GOBLIN. Spider-Man An actually functioning animatronic goblin mask was built for the film. However, it proved to be too challenging to apply and wear on a regular basis, so it was dropped in favor of the rejected Power Rangers villain suit. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/7/806927.jpg)
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![They were going to make Jar Jar Binks basically a rubbery, boneless alien. Не was supposed to have elastic bones, so he'd stretch out into a weird blob whenever he went to a place that had heavy gravity or high pressure. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/6/806926.jpg)
![THE MUMMY LOOKED LIKE YOUNG APOCALYPSE. The Mummy The reboot was initially supposed to feature a male mummy, however, director Alex Kurtzman decided to go in a completely new direction after seeing the post-credits scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Не says their concept art for the mummy had the exact same design as the young Apocalypse. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/0/806920.jpg)
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![Doc Brown was going to have a pet chimpanzee in Back to the Future. The studio feedback was that no movie with a chimpanzee ever made any money, so they had to throw out the chimp and give Doc a pet dog. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/9/806919.jpg)
![GHOSTFACE ALMOST LOOKED LIKE A CHEAP KNOCKOFF. Scream Wes Craven was originally forced to come up with a new design for the mask because Dimension refused to buy the rights to the iconic Ghostface mask-which was owned by Fun World. After being unsatisfied with the new designs, Dimension finally gave in and bought the rights. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/1/806921.jpg)
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![Rogue One was going to have a happy(ish) ending where everyone survives. The filmmakers assumed that that was the only option Disney would let them do, but it turned out Disney had no problems killing the entire main cast. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/7/806917.jpg)
![REY WAS GOING TO USE A DOUBLE-BLADED LIGHTSABER. The Rise of Skywalker Before J.J. Abrams was brought in to finish the sequel trilogy, Colin Trevorrow was slated to direct. Concept art for his version of the film shows a darker, more badass version of Rey. She even sports a double-bladed lightsaber - something many fans were hoping to see. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/8/806918.jpg)
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![The Belchers from Bob's Burgers were originally going to be cannibals. It FUN BOB'S BURGERS Home a C Creator Loren Bouchard's first idea was a show about a family that runs a restaurant who are cannibals, but Fox asked him if the cannibalism angle was really needed. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/6/806916.jpg)
![THE MINIONS STARTED OFF AS TINY HUMANS. Despicable Me The original concept presented them as short human factory workers who assisted a much taller Gru. As the project went on, they first morphed into robots, before finally becoming the weird creature we know today. For the final design, the filmmakers decided to mix the innocence of robots and the relatability of humans. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/806912.jpg)
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![Pee-wee's Big Adventure was almost a kind of adaptation of Disney's Pollyanna. Paul Reubens got a new idea when he got a gift bike with the sign that said Bicycle parking for Pee-wee Herman only and had a picture of Pee-wee. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/4/806924.jpg)
![MAUL ORIGINALLY LOOKED LIKE A HORROR MOVIE VILLAIN. The Phantom Menace The script described Darth Maul as a vision from your worst nightmare, and artist lain McCaig drew exactly that for his inital design. However, George Lucas thought it was a bit too nightmarish and told Caig to use his second-worst nightmare. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/5/806925.jpg)
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![Return of the Jedi was going to end on a bittersweet and poignant note. Han would get in killed in battle mid-movie, Leia would become queen (and be pretty unsure about it), and Luke would walk away into the sunset. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/3/806923.jpg)
![THE NUN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN ANIMATRONIC DEMON. The Conjuring 2 X James Wan originally based the Nun on a Dracula design he developed for a scrapped Castlevania project. A fully animatronic monster was built and even used on set, however, Wan had a sudden change of heart and decided to go with a more grounded and personal monster design. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/2/806922.jpg)
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![Pixar's Brave originally wasn't supposed to take place in Scotland. BRAVE t was just supposed to be set in a generic northern European medieval country, but the team made it increasingly specific and eventually they put it in Scotland. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/5/806915.jpg)
![LUKE SKYWALKER SPORTED A MAN BUN AT ONE POINT. The Last Jedi Luke's original design was supposed to invoke Col. Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. We're not sure why the famously bald character prompted the designers to give Luke a man bun, but thankfully the idea got nixed. May the Force be with you, hipster Luke. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/9/806909.jpg)
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![In an early version of the Blade Runner script, Roy Batty's dying word is Crap. Also, Deckard takes Rachel to the countryside and shoots her in the head because, he says, if he hadn't done it, they definitely would have. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/806913.jpg)
![WE NEARLY GOT TO SEE THE MONSTERS FROM BIRD BOX. Bird Box Monster prosthetics were actually created for the film and were even brought in for filming. However, their resemblance to giant babies made everyone on set burst out laughing and the idea was thankfully abandoned. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/8/806908.jpg)
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![The plot of The Spy Who Loved Me was going to heavily feature acupuncture. Somehow, James Bond was going to use acupuncture skills to operate on the Queen of England to remove a bomb implanted into her body. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/4/806914.jpg)
![COLOSSUS ALMOST LOOKED LIKE A SITH. Deadpool Early on in production, one idea for Colossus was for him to be a cloaked figure who likes to hide in the shadows. This was eventually dropped in favor of the much more comic-accurate design that we ended up seeing in the film. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/806911.jpg)
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![Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them was going to be a documentary. In the very first discussions about the movie, the idea got floated that it could all be a documentary about what Newt Scamander gets up to. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/5/806905.jpg)
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![Stan Lee's cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy was going to be more rude. James Gunn's first idea was to make Lee one of the Collector's exhibits and flip off Groot when Groot runs into him. Disney didn't like that idea at all, though. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/7/806907.jpg)
![THE XENOMORPH WAS ORIGINALLY A SILLY-LOOKING CRAB MONSTER. Alien OXYGEN Designer Dan O'Bannon drew the original design, however, it was scrapped after H.R. Giger got involved with the film and developed the now legendary design. Also, at one point Robert Aldrich was slated to direct the film, and his idea was to shave a real orangutan and have it play the monster. Yikes! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/6/806906.jpg)
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