14 Iconic Scenes That Were Originally Supposed To Play Out Very Differently
![14 Iconic Scenes That Were Originally Supposed To Play Out Very Differently](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/3/4/750134_320x180.jpg?v=2)
The creative process relies on coming up with a bunch of ideas and discarding most of them until you’re left with something good. So you expect the discarded ones to not be so great, but sometimes they’re truly weird. We’ve written about how the Lost ending was actually great. We’ve also covered widely misunderstood endings and tv finales.
We wanted to do a deep dive into weird almost-made-it details and endings of famous movie scenes that didn’t make it on screen. For example, the ending to the Blair Witch Project was originally even darker than what we saw. It also turns out some unexpected gaffes led to a different scene with Spock in Star Trek than we realized. Don’t even get us stated on the stuff they left out of Back to the Future. It’s truly wild.
Scroll on for more wild and weird ideas that didn’t quite make the final cut!
![The Blair Witch Project could have ended with Mike hanging from a noose or crucified by rope and wood. Those are the endings the filmmakers shot when](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/4/750184.jpg?v=2)
![In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first version of the scene in which Spock decides to enter the inner sanctum of V'ger looked totally different.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/8/750178.jpg?v=2)
![The original ending for Men in Black was a philosophical debate between Will Smith and the Edgar bug. Director Barry Sonnenfeld was (understandably) n](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/7/750177.jpg?v=2)
![Freddy VS. Jason could have shown us Freddy raping Jason as a child. That scene, which ends with Freddy drowning Jason so he wouldn't tell anyone, was](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/1/750181.jpg?v=2)
![In Deadpool 2, the X-Force would originally get blown up by landing on a minefield. The filmmakers couldn't come up with a good reason for the plane f](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/2/750182.jpg?v=2)
![In David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Nils Bjurman was supposed to be clothed in Lisbeth's revenge scene. Fincher asked people he knew w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/0/750180.jpg?v=2)
![The gag where Deadpool thinks he's blocked Cable's bullets with his sword, but then realizes he didn't block any, wasn't supposed to be in Deadpool 2.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/9/750179.jpg?v=2)
![We almost got to see Cap's severed head in Avengers: Endgame. One idea had Thanos toss the head, with the mask still on, to a living Captain America.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/5/750175.jpg?v=2)
![The final fight between Yon-Rogg and Carol in Captain Marvel was supposed to be a brawl. While shooting, they decided it didn't make sense that she'd](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/8/3/750183.jpg?v=2)
![6 -JARRAH OLE 4z The magic cave in Lost was a last-minute substitute for a volcano. The show kept mentioning the inactive volcano on the island, and t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/6/750176.jpg?v=2)
![Avengers: Infinity War could have had dragons. They were in one of the ideas batted around for the Nidavellir forge sequence. In the end, the filmmake](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/4/750174.jpg?v=2)
![OT an AVICE The finale of Deadpool was supposed to be a huge shootout. The studio took $7 million from the budget at the last moment, forcing the film](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/3/750173.jpg?v=2)
![AnC Back to the Future was supposed to have nuclear explosions, not a DeLorean. The initial idea was for Marty to go back from 1985 to 1952 by being i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/2/750172.jpg?v=2)
![Roy Batty's dying monologue in Blade Runner was originally very, very long. It had stuff like I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the bl](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/1/750171.jpg?v=2)
![Ash wasn't an android in the original Alien script. He was made an android at the studio's suggestionc- originally, he was human. Which would have mad](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/0/750170.jpg?v=2)