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25 Movies That Were Changed For Objectively Weird Reasons

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Movies and shows go through a lot of revisions before they launch into the zeitgeist; that's pretty much a given. What's surprising is how jaw-droppingly strange the reasons for those changes can be. Here are the more arresting reasons for changes to movie and show characters, storylines, settings, titles, and more.

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Voldemort WASN'T supposed to hug Draco... but Fiennes did iit anyway forshitsand giggles. According to Tom Felton, the infamous hug was never in the s

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CRACKED cO COM THIS IS THEEND Emma Watson was set to appear during channing Tatum's cameo scene as Danny McBride's gimp. However, the sight of Tatum i

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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

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

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CRACKED COR 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 Tat

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The name of the villain company in Eraser was changed from Cyrex to Cyrez at the request of a chip manufacturer named Gyrix FasMath CX-83D87-40-GP 10

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On 123 SESAME STREET Snuffleupagus stopped being imaginary because of child molestation. Relax, we're not accusing Snuffy of sticking his trunk in b

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CRACKEDC COM A Captain America's Avengers costume lost the chinstrap because Joss Whedon wanted to show off Chris Evans' jawline.

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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 bei

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POLICE T FUZZ (HE Hott Fuzz became Hot Fuzz SO Simon Pegg wouldn't be asked in Q&As about the second 't.' CRACKED COM

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Ryan Gosling was supposed to play Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones. However, the role was given to Mark Wahlberg at the last minute because Mortiret Go

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The movie adaptation of the John Carter Of Mars novel series was plainly titled John Carter because... Dinsy JOHN CARTER MARS NEEDS MOMS Mars Needs Mo

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A devoted Red Sox fan, BEN AFFLECK refused to wear a New York Yankees cap in GONE (GIRL Affleck locked horns with director DAVID FINCHER, and shut dow

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CRACKEDC COM MIB MEN IN BLACK It wasn't originally set in New York City but director Barry Sonnenfeld changed it. He decided that aliens would most li

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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

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Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989) CRACKED.COM was supposed to be blonde. 20 EDITION NNIVERSARY LEVY JOHN CANDY HANKS HANNAK EUGENE TOM DARYL ERLAGI

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25 Movies That Were Changed For Objectively Weird Reasons

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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 mak

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CRACKEDCO 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 dir

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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 H

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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

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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

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SPIDERSMAN Many people know that there was almost a very different Green Goblin mask, but not why:. Amalgamated Dynamics created and tested the mask o

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Hugh Jackman was supposed to have a small Wolverine cameo in the as original Spider-Man. As awesome as that would have been, it didn't happen because

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CRACKEDOON DisnEy's THE EMP'EKOR'S WROOVE Emperor Kuzco was originally named Manco, which had to be changed following a problematic discovery. The n

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