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By:: Andres Diplotti

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18 Famous Movies That Were Nearly Awful

Movies go through a lot of drafts in their early stages, presumably by exhausted creative teams trying to figure out what the kids are into these days. Because of that, there are so many ill-conceived ideas that it's wild that anything coherent makes it to the theaters at all.

Here are some of the weirdest plots and characters that studios were seriously considering, with links to more detailed explanations.

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PETER JACKSON WANTED AN APE LEONARDO. Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes isn't the most yes, that makes sense sort of movie. But back when it was Jacks — From 5 Classic Movies That Were Almost Ruined By Horrifying Ideas.

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ALIEN COULD HAVE BEEN A LAUGHABLE B-MOVIE. ALLEN The original script was rewritten to add a couple subplots and tighten some of the dialogue- and in t — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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JAWS 3 WAS ALMOST A STRAIGHT SPOOF. For the third Jaws film, Universal took the weird step of turning to National Lampoon. A script by John Hughes mad — From 6 Baffling First Drafts Of Famous Movies.

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1930'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND WAS MORE ALICE IN HORRORLAND. In 1938, Walt Disney charged storyboard artist Al Perkins and art director David Hall to st — From 5 Classic Movies That Were Almost Ruined By Horrifying Ideas.

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WE COULD HAVE HAD WOOKIEE FIGHTER PILOTS. Early drafts of Star Wars didn't look a lot like Star Wars. For starters, the lead was a fat, horny teenager — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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TRUMAN WAS SUPPOSED TO THREATEN TO KILL A BABY. The Truman Show's original screenplay reaches deep into Truman's breakdown. Once he learns that his li — From 8 Iconic Characters That Were Originally Insane.

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NEO WAS GOING TO WIN WITH THE POWER OF THE FINGER. Remember the ending of The Matrix, when Neo stops the bullets and destroys Agent Smith? In the firs — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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WALL-E WAS TO FIGHT ALIEN BLOBS OF JELLO. In WALL-E'S first drafts, the adorable little robot is roped into a rebellion against evil, blob-like aliens — From 6 Baffling First Drafts Of Famous Movies.

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COMMODUS WAS GOING TO ROAST THE SENATE. Early iterations of the Gladiator script include some weird sh!t-like Commodus deciding that the senators are — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD WAS CONCEIVED AS AN ALIEN INVASION MOVIE. George Romero kickstarted the zombie genre - which, over 50 years later, still refu — From 5 Bizarre Early Versions of Iconic Characters.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE COULD HAVE BEEN A BIG COCA-COLA AD. ocaceu In the first drafts, Professor Brown is a failure who could never get any of his inven — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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BEETLEJUICE WAS ALMOST A MURDERER. Everyone's favorite bio-exorcist was initially less about exorcising the living and more about making them stop liv — From 5 Classic Movies That Were Almost Ruined By Horrifying Ideas.

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WANT TO SEE BATMAN WITH A GIANT MAGNET? YOU COULD HAVE! Before Tim Burton was brought onto the project, Batman was going for a weird blend of dark and — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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A PROFESSOR SPIDER- OCTOPUS WAS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED. G R Before Sam Raimi took over, Spider-Man went through a lot of hands, including James Cameron' — From 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies.

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BIRDMAN WAS ORIGINALLY THE SETUP FOR A JOKE ABOUT JOHNNY DEPP. Birdman's ending is ambiguous and poignant -but it could have easily been a dumb joke a — From 6 Baffling First Drafts Of Famous Movies.

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RETURN OF THE JEDI ORIGINALLY FEATURED AN UNDEAD OBI-WAN. In the first script, Luke travels to a lava planet to confront Vader - and Obi-Wan Kenobi jo — From 6 Baffling First Drafts Of Famous Movies.

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