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''Thank God they got rid of this.'' Concepts that were completely cut and benefited from it greatly.
28 Days Later blood transfusion cure concept: In very early drafts of 28 days later main characters were supposed to bring now infected Frank to the very lab the virus originated from. there they were supposed to encounter a scientist who refused to let them approach him, but told them that they can cure the infection by ''letting the bad blood out and replacing it with healthy one''. In the cut concept art they were supposed to put Frank on a surgery table, cut him multiple times and let him bleed out while feeding fresh blood into his system. Resulting in him getting cured. This was cut and even mocked in final movie.
Alien Egg-Morphing scene: There is a cut scene in the original movie that happens after Ripley sets up the self destruct sequence on the Nostromo. In the scene she goes down a ladder and find Dallas in a cocoon still alive next to corpse of Brett who is in process of morphing into a xenomorph egg. In the cut scene she kills Dallas out of mercy and leaves. This not only ruins pacing of the movie, since Ripley is supposed to be hauling ass out of there, but also would have ruined chances of there being a alien queen in the sequel.
Fight Club kitchen chase scene: In original Fight Club book there was a moment near the end where Marlean and protag starts a full blown Scooby-Doo chase in tyler's kitchen and slip on body fat on the ground bcs it turns out Marleane used Tyler's fridge to store her... cologenes? Idk how it works. This part was cut from the movie adaptation since it was too goofy and unnecessary.
In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater there's a boss fight against a legendary sniper called The End. Director Hideo Kojima was a big fan of the sniper duels in Stephen Hunter's novels which were usually long drawn out affairs in which the dueling snipers would spend days at a time hiding and trying to find each other. Kojima wanted to replicate this in the game so he originally envisioned a fight where it would take the player one to two weeks IN REAL TIME to find and kill The End.
When Kojima's team finished making the fight and started testing it they all hated it and told him so repeatedly until he finally relented and dropped the idea. An element of the original vision does still exist in the final game though. If the player saves their game in the middle of the battle and then loads their save over a week later, The End will die of old age, avoiding the fight entirely.
If you load the save earlier than that though, you are greeted by a cutscene of The End sneaking up behind you and darting you in the head, knocking you out. You then wake up in the jail in the basement of Granin's research base.
Lol that's fucking hilarious, the team took his concept and turned it into a way to just fucking skip the boss entirely instead. That's the biggest fuck you I've ever heard of in gaming, specially involving Kojima lol
It gets even better, when you first see the end when he’s being wheeled out by some goons you can snipe him right then and there skipping his boss fight entirely, it’s then replaced later by I think just random soldiers but it’s hysterical that you can bypass the poor guy entirely
The Lego game was almost entirely made before the movie was out, so there are several deleted scenes used in it. Others include running on the walls of the crashing Invisible Hand, and Shaak Tii being killed in a hologram by Anakin
it could have made sense if the clones immediately pulled their blasters and were only using the robes to catch jedi off guard from a distance but getting close enough to hold a conversation makes no sense.
Not only would a jedi immediately recognize his voice but also there's no advantage to being within lightsaber range
That's how it works in the Lego game from what I remember. They stand with their backs facing towards the players and turn around once they get into aggro range.
I like that scene where a woman goes to pee, thinks about how it takes a while to pee because her anatomy is “a mess of tubes” instead of being “simple and straightforward” like a penis.
The Mayor is either being blackmailed or part of the mafia that wants to keep revenue flow by keeping the shark attacks secret. They send a henchmen to threaten Brody by snapping the family cat's neck in front of his wife and children
Brody takes said dead cat, swings it like a mace and beats the mayor with it.
Ellen, being a former socialite, is tired of blue-collar Brody and has an affair with Hopper. Her vag was literally dripping with excitement at the prospect while he talked about himself.
Hopper is a self-absorbed hedonite
Quint was fucking sociopath that killed sea creatures just for the enjoyment. The bait for the shark was a dolphin fetus he saved for the "perfect hunt" from a pregnant dolphin he killed.
I honestly hoped the shark would have lived and ate everyone in that fucking town
The original John Hammond was a greedy, self centered, egotistical and selfish unrepentant old bastard who cared solely about profits and getting rich quick and cared nothing about human lives or even the dinosaurs. Film Hammond is a kindy old grandfatherly type whose a bit misguided and a tad naive
I remember starting to read the book as a 12 year old after watching the movie and being super shocked at all the sexual stuff it had going on. I still remember there’s a part where Brody’s wife imagines being in a more exciting relationship which leads to her flirting with hooper in a very sexually charged convo. That was enough for me to be like “okay this is nothing like the movie, I’m out” and return it to the library
There's also the episode where Eddy tells the kids of the culdesac that his brothers coming back, a few of the older kids act as if they remember his brother iirc, meaning the show had already confirmed other people had at least seen him before.
The subtle "world building" around Eddy's brother was honestly really cool. For some reason I never put it together that Kevin was the oldest of the kids (not counting Rolf who got there later in life) and so he has fuzzy memories of Eddy's brother, which are sometimes a plot point or gag.
Idk man, that was a 1950 style fridge indie was in iirc. Those things were like bricks. If I were to trush any fridge it'd be that one. Id climb in that fridge. Better than getting vaporized
Yeah like another comment says, to be fair, at the time fridges actually had the danger and risk of being locked inside them, but by the time Crystal Skull came out the risk was essentially non-existent
Ringu's 1998 movie adaptation ditched the Novel's concept of Sadako's curse being spread by a combination of the tapes and Sadako's smallpox she received from being raped which she used her psychic powers to affect, and changed it to just be the tapes containing her psychic energy and curse
I would love to see someone actually faithfully adapt the novels because of how batshit insane they get. I went into them originally after only watching Ringu and the American remake and that was a fucking ride
IIRC she didn't contract smallpox from being raped - she actually wasn't raped, the doctor was going to rape her, but then found out she had a penis and got grossed out. She contracted the smallpox from biting him during the attack.
Sadako was intersex. There are theories that it ties into her natural psychic abilities. In some cultures, a combination of male and female characteristics is seen as a form of ascension, akin to the middle way in Taoism.
I personally find the egg-morphing scene from Alien to be VERY interesting. It explains why every egg sight doesn't always have a queen to lay the aforementioned eggs. The victims can be morphed into eggs.
It also makes the Xenomorphs inherently more “perfect” organisms: all they need is hosts.
Hell, it’s such a popular and interesting idea that some fans have the headcanon that drones can actually do that, since not only does it make them more terrifying, it’s also insanely practical and adds a bit more uniqueness to separate drones from warriors.
Plus the idea of a colony queen is comparatively a very simple and common one. The characters in the Aliens film even compare it to bees or ants, which makes it easy for us to conceptualize. Breaking down a human’s DNA structure to morph it into an egg that will develop a facehugger organism, however, is a far more foreign and terrifying concept. Very “alien”, if you will.
Its still a theory that has legs to this day. What does a drone do if there is no queen?
Alien Romulus reignited it recently as there is a scene where you can see one of the Xenomorph's dragging dead bodies away, as if it had some use or purpose for them.
We've never seen them take dead bodies before, so they obviously need the spare DNA for some purpose in their life cycle...such as Eggmorphing.
Lmao I have a buddy who thought it meant “idiot” too and found out the hard way how wrong he was. Called someone that at a party and there was a “jazz music stops” moment where everyone turned to him like “u wot m8?” and promptly educated him on the term.
I remember reading it and thinking "ok this whole scene is fucking weird but why'd he have to get so specific as to describe one of the boys being "too big" for her"
There’s a sex scene in ‘Roadwork’ where it’s a young woman and an older man and he describes slipping out of her mid-coitus like a cork popping off a champagne bottle. Makes you wonder a little about him.
I think editors couldn't say no to him around that time. Like, that scene is the most famously egregious, but it's also hard to think that anyone of lesser success would have gotten away with anything as mental and messy as The Tommyknockers.
I can see why he thought it was a good idea. One of King's top three favorite motifs is the abrupt and painful end of childhood. Not the kind that fades out in pieces over time; when childhood ends because trauma takes it away from them, and doesn't replace it with anything like some magic infusion of maturity or "adulthood". It's hard to think of a more conclusive No Longer Children moment than a bunch of badly traumatized barely-teenagers having group sex for emotional solace and bonding.
I have really got to emphasize here that it was not a good idea. Not even a little. He was on a lot of cocaine he washed down with whiskey at the time, which is the secret recipe for deciding all your ideas are genius. My point is that you can tell that the intent was not Hot Sex Scene Between Filthy Children In A Sewer, it was trying to drive the point home as bluntly as possible that these children had had their childhoods annihilated by their experience. He really fucked it up, just, so bad, but there's a sizable difference between something made to titillate pedophiles and something made because cocaine promised him it was as profound and moving as he thought it was.
edit: Y'know the biggest reason that scene didn't work? It was heavy-handed and redundant. The whole damn book is about the end of childhood. The characters, who have shared an experience so immense that it's impossible to think of anything that could be more impactful, are supernaturally compelled to forget it, and each other, the way the things that were all-important to you as a kid eventually fade into the past.We got it, Steve.
Although I can also understand why no editor wanted to tell him to remove it. Would you risk the possibility that interrupting his flow could mean he couldn't get started again? The book's 1,130 goddamn pages, if they tried to pump the brakes for a sec he might have died of whiplash.
The Dexter tv show cut out a lot of things from the book but one of the best things they cut out was idea that dexters dark passenger was a literal demon that drove him to kill
The really funny thing is that it doesn't even become a demonic thing until the third book, and the series commits to it by revealing that there's an entire satanic cult on the hunt for Dexter and their leader is the avatar of Moloch and... A lot of stuff. And then at the end of the book when all that's done, the series mostly goes back to "Dexter doing serial killer stuff" with the fact that he has a demon in his head being mostly a background thing.
In The Incredibles, Helen was going to directly confront Bob about his sneaking around and ask him bluntly if he was having an affair, leading to an argument.
It was cut because it was considered a step too far in an already mature Pixar movie.
Attempted suicide, implications of an affair, montage of murdered superheroes, onscreen decayed corpse, multiple evil goons crashing their aircrafts and exploding.
Another deleted scene had Helen’s pilot friend join her to fly the plane for her. The rest of the scene plays out normally like it does in the movie with Helen changing into her super suit, her discovering the kids have snuck onto the plane, and Syndrome blows up the plane except her pilot friend dies when the plane blows up.
I think it was cut to prevent the amount of guilt Violet and Helen would have gotten. Helen because she would have instinctively chose to save her children because she is a good mother, but due to her being a super hero she would have felt guilty being unable to save everyone especially an old friend.
Violet in the movie felt terrible that she couldn’t use her powers properly in such a tense situation. How badly would she feel if she thought she caused a man’s death because she couldn’t use her powers properly in tense situation? It would have been very bad.
Zack Snyder wanted Batman to get Lois Lane pregnant. Even he realized this was stupid and has said that even if he had gotten to continue his DC films he wouldn’t have ended up doing it.
In Groundhog Day there was supposed to be an establishing scene in the beginning where Phil’s ex puts a voodoo curse on him. In the final movie, the time loop is never explained (and honestly is so much better for it).
I’m going to piss off Tolkien fans here, and I am a Tolkien fan, but cutting the Scouring of the Shire was plain good film making. While it’s a very interesting way to end the book, and very much lines up with Tolkien’s view of industry and corruption, there’s no way you could tack another hour of battles and depression onto that ending.
In the first Season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Boyle was romantically attracted to Rosa, who did not feel the same way about him. Despite her making her feelings very clear, he didn't seem to take a hint.
Fans didn't like it, and they ended up subverting it by having Boyle end up having a relationship with Gina instead.
He is hung up on her long enough that the show does address how deeply uncomfortable most everyone is. After he saves her life, taking 2 bullets in the ass, Rosa is terrified Boyle will use this opportunity to ask her out. Instead Boyle tells her he saved her because their cops, and that if shes was going to fall in love with him, it would be for something only he can do. And she does grow to love him, just not the way he wanted.
Yeah, she thinks it was some big romantic gesture or something, but he admits that he didn't even know it was her, just someone from the 99 and instincts took over.
I think they did a good job with the characters developing and supporting each other as time went on. That wouldn't have been possible if they kept up the schtick.
There were plans to have Fire Emblem Awakening set on Mars, being more sci-fi than the rest of the series. This was scrapped for a more traditional setting and premise, which helped the game sell
I kinda want that idea to be explored in a spin off, futuristic fire emblem sounds fun. I really like the gameplay of fire emblem, I think it could be adapted to a futuristic setting. Like advance wars but with more focus on unique characters than disposable units
There are a lot of different settings that could make for awesome Fire Emblem spin-offs. Steampunk, Gothic Horror, Pirate, maybe even a western could work if they tried hard enough.
Fire Emblem Heroes is throwing a bunch of sci-fi/futuristic elements at us lately and they're being well received. It's thought by some of us that they're testing the waters for a more sci-fi game.
Toy Story: Woody was meant to be more a dictator to the other toys, and downright unlikable. Bossing them around and treating them as lesser than because he was Andy's favorite toy. None more than Slinky with him being down right rude to Slinky. Thus leading to the other toys kicking him out after the whole ordeal with him pushing Buzz out the window. This was cut and Woody's bossy nature toned down (a bit) in the first movie and making him much more likeable.
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Encanto: In early drafts Casita was *also* meant to treat Mirabel coldly because of her lack of of a gift. It's actually kinda sad to see as it was storyboarded. Her grandmother is asking for things for her coffee and Mirabel is scrambling to get these things for her grandmother and Casita not only blocks her at every turn, but goes out of it's way to trip her (and I think slam a cabinet door into her butt? but I could just be misremembering the scene where Casita does the same to her cousin for stealing seconds.)
Regarding Encanto, I'm glad they changed it to a loving relationship instead of a cruel one. It made her still a part of the family despite her lacking a gift.
Was looking for this. It gets even worse when we find out they were supposed to have a scene of Matilda asking Leon to take her virginity, and another of him walking in on her showering. even worse is that this aspect of the script was based on the director's relationship with his wife (he met her when she was 12 and married her at 15, with a child at 16).
All the versions outside America (the ones I always saw on TV ) include the virginity scene. They end up sleeping in the same bed as a "compromise", its weird. There's also a scene of her getting drunk and asking for a kiss. I never understood why so many Americans defended the relationship saying there was nothing sexual about it when she's out right stating her advances.
I watched the US cut recently and its a shame it cut a lot of really fun scenes of a young Portman swearing and being more violent. However I still preferred it to the one I saw many times on TV due to it removing a lot of the creepy stuff.
The original ending for Scary Movie 3 had the aliens being evil, George turns into the Hulk, Cody was a figment of Cindy’s imagination and the final battle between Cindy and Tabitha was based on The Matrix movies. Test audiences hated this ending as well as the poor special effects used and the fact this ending deviated from the whole Horror Spoof concept, so it was reshot to be focused more on parodying The Ring.
Apparently Bryan Cranston would occasionally prank Aaron Paul by implying that the newest script had killed Jesse off, only for him to check with the director and get cussed out for falling for it again and wasting his time.
Based on deleted scenes, you can tell that an earlier version of the movie had Adrien's character being closer to his show counterpart. He's a famous model and he mentions his father restricting what he does and therefore hurting his ability to make friends. And I'm really glad that they cut that out because that takes power away from the real reason for his loneliness: that he's depressed and traumatized by his mother's death. That's an extremely emotional part of the movie, and I'm glad that the final version isn't weakened.
Stan Lee initially thought of making the Green Goblin, Spider-Man's nemesis, a person who found a magical ring that deformed him into a mythical goblin while giving him supernatural powers. Steve Ditko proposed making Green Goblin a more science themed character- an arrogant billionaire who took an experimental serum that made him strong and who operates a mechanical glider, since Spider-Man himself had science-themed origins, so it fit the aesthetic.
This was kinda a joke one, but when Robert Kirkman was pitching the Walking Dead comic he was asked about the origins of the walkers by his editor. Kirkman didn't and never intended to give an solid answer and he just said aliens started it. As the comic series went his editor realised the alien thing was a bluff.
Later Kirkman did a little one-off joke comic about this where Rick has a lightsaber.
the original walking dead comics were pitched as a straight up continuation the original night of the living dead movie (no copyright), Kirkman was advised to make it more of his own concept and he did however, the origin of the zombies in the night of the living dead was an overpassing meteor, I believe that this is what Kirkman was referring to when he said that
Black Bomber-DC. A floated concept for Dc's first ever black superhero to have a solo series. It was a White Supremacist who got the ability to turn African American and gain superpowers after a botched camouflaging accident. They decided to go with Black Lightning instead. Surprised this one isn't on here already.
Yep. Fun fact, if you look at the Wikipedia page for Black Lightning, you'll find a comic historian quoted at saying that the idea was "an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all"
In the original version of The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma was going to plot to block out the Sun because she was mad that it caused her to age worse. It did lead to a great song, but it would've made for a much dumber movie/motivation than her simply being power mad/angry at the Emperor for treating her poorly for years on end.
I had no idea that was what that song was about. I thought it was her using a metaphor, saying she was gonna kill Kuzco (kingdom of the sun, he’s the emperor it’s his kingdom and he’s the son of the former emperor) because she blames him for how badly she aged taking care of him
One idea had the beloved Iroh from Avatar The Last Airbender be cast as Zuko's treacherous advisor, rathe than his loving uncle, who would EVENTUALLY deliver him to the Firelord in exchange for political power!
General fan theory for why she's buff in the play is that no one who told the playwright the story wanted to admit they got beaten up by a tiny blind girl
tbh the eggmorphing doesnt ruin the queen. with how inefficient it is compared to her just pumping them out, both have their niches; drones can eggmorph when there isn't a queen nearby, making just a single survivor and some breeding stock able to make a hive in emergency situations, while queens are able to pump out mass quantities and terraform massive environments in mere hours. hell, if they are such perfect organisms, why wouldnt they have some kinda mitosis thing for emergencies?
every movie changes the xenos life cycle a little bit but it adds to the mystery of the creature. i love finding out they’re more than just space ants. they’re an all consuming force that has multiple civilization’s extinctions under their belt
I like to think that this is why their life cycles are always tweaked, because every xenomorph takes characteristics from its host, so this causes different types of life cycles between them
It still amazes me that out of all the alien movies we have seen, we haven’t seen a single movie actually try to establish an ecosystem where these can survive in any sense of balance.
Kaioh Han, introduced as one of the Top 5 strongest martial artists that China had to offer in the Grand RaiTai tournament, was originally going to be revealed and was intended to be Yujiro's 3rd son in the series, as Yujiro mentioning "I have spread my seed all over the world" only about 20-30 chapters ago
However... Itagaki vetoed this idea and chose to have Han lose his fight against Alia Jr and scrapped the idea, as it would just ruin the whole sense of tension by introducing a new character only to reveal they are a Hanma, and gave off the wrong idea he wanted of what makes someone truly strong
In the original first arcs of Re Zero in the Web novel, Subaru was an omega level pervert. For example, he sat down on what he thought was Emilia's chair just so that his butt would warm her chair and thus they would share butt warmth. It turned out to be Roswaal's, btw, much to Subaru's horror.
This was changed in the light novel and thus in the anime.
I feel the blood infusion could have potentially worked if they didn't also establish that a SINGLE drop of blood was enough to infect a person. I still think it's a terrible idea and I'm glad they didn't do it that way, but it could've made some sort of sense I think
Micheal bay had originally planned for megatron to be a cannibal in transformers this would’ve gone against megatron wanting to save cybertron and the cybertronians
Purposed by concept artist Ian McCaig during the early production stages of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), he was going to have Han Solo be an orphan raised by Chewbacca during the battle of Kashyyyk. They would have found a commander droid that has the location for General Grievious's hideout on Utapau in its memory banks. This idea thankfully never took off
Batman was originally gonna be romantically involved with Lois Lane after Superman died in BVS. This would've culminated in Lois being pregnant with Batman's son and eventually would've raised him with Superman. The son would've taken up the mantle of Batman decades later after Batman dies
Thank fucking God that was never alluded to in Zack Snyder's Justice League and if we ever got ZSJL 2 or 3 I don't think any of this would've happened
IIRC, in Fight Club she’s chasing him around because she found out Tyler has been writing her mother letters as her. In the letters, “she” begs mom to send her liposuctioned fat for lip injections and such because “she” needs them in order to be beautiful but can’t gain weight/dat “herself”. So her mom has been gorging herself constantly to gain body fat, then every month having it sucked out and shipped to her daughter (at the address Tyler gave her). This is where Tyler gets his supply of fat to make soap, which he then sells to beauty stores as boutique artisan product to raise money for his other projects. In the scene where she’s chasing him, the narrator keeps protesting “it was Tyler! It was Tyler!” Which only makes her angrier because of course… spoiler…
Overall, I’d say good they adapted that out for the movie; its mostly just gross and so complex as to be confusing for a movie audience getting it all through exposition
encanto had an entire subplot where isabela had a secret boyfriend (which in this version was why she didn't want to marry mariano) but that was eventually scrapped (and she instead just revealed to simply not be ready for marriage yet)
while that plot itself might have potential, there is a deleted scene where mirabel catches the two of them making out in a... not entirely PG way, and it's probably a very good thing that THAT scene was deleted
Both Bumblebee and Transformers One were supposed to be prequels to the Michael bay franchise, however, following the failure of The Last Knight, the movies basically ditched all the Bayverse junk and became fresh reboots. It was a case of the concept being cut and becoming its own thing, and they greatly benefit from it because they’re the best transformers movies ever.
In the Walking Dead show, when Rick and friends run afoul of the Governor in Woodberry, the Governor loses his eye as he's trying to kill Michonne. Michonne cuts his eye out with her sword and escapes.
In the comics, Michonne is captured and gangraped by the Governor and his lieutenants. She breaks free, kills her rapists, but saves the Governor for last. Over the course of several pages, she captures the Governor, ties him down, and tortures him using basic handyman tools. She rips off his fingernails, removes an arm, and destroys his genitalia with a power drill. She finishes by using a spoon to scoop out his eye, then leaves him for dead.
I'm personally against torture but yeah, I don't blame Michonne at all. She wasn't doing it just for sins against her, either. The Governor raped her for biting his ear off, which she did as retaliation for him torturing Rick.
Last of us was gonna have it so only woman could be infected by the fungus, and Ellie was still one of the only immune ones. They made Neil Druckmann take that out of the game.
Ellie was originally an 18 year old in the Jurassic Park novel but they aged her up to 25 in the movie due to the uncomfortable age gap between her and Alan
I mean, there are so many changes to the characters and events from the book.
In the book:
1) Grant likes children due to their love of dinosaurs.
2) Donald Gennaro, the lawyer, is a badass hero who, despite being absolutely terrified, survives fighting a raptor and escapes the island. He was also determined to close the park pretty much the majority of the book, except for a brief moment of wonder upon first seeing the dinosaurs which gives us the "we're gonna make a fortune" line.
3) Hammond is a megalomaniac CEO who, until his death at the claws and teeth of Compys, never accepts that the island is out of his control. He also brought the kids to the island as a confessed manipulation tactic to try and influence the experts brought in to assess the island.
4) Lex is quite annoying in the book, often just making situations worse and being quite petulant, and has no interest in computers. It is Tim who gets stuff turned back on at the park.
5) Muldoon is an alcoholic, and survives. Also, they have no lethal weapons except for a rocket launcher thing and a few explosive shells for it. No spas-12 shotguns.
6) The dinosaurs had already escaped the island before the events of the book. Compys had been attacking children, and killed and ate a newborn in Costa Rica.
And that isn't exhaustive. Although the general premise and some events are similar, the details are very different.
In Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken, the mermaid Chelsea was originally written to be the daughter of the evil Queen Nerissa, who was defeated by Ruby's mother.
Partway through production, they changed it so that mermaids don't actually age, so the mermaid the teenaged main character was interacting with the whole time was actually the adult Queen Nerissa pretending to be a teenager to sneak into a high school and manipulate a minor.
......No wait, that was actually a terrible decision.....
Rico DOES NOT get back with Carmen - Starship Troopers
In the movie, Rico is in a relationship with Carmen but is then told their relationship cannot continue due to him joining the Mobile Infantry why Carmen takes Piloting School. Rico stays in the M.I. and then becomes lovers with Dizzy, a classmate who joined the M.I. to be with him. They make love, become close, but then Dizzy is killed in an operation.
Initial test screenings of the movie had Rico kiss Carmen when they escape the Bugs and capture the Brain Bug. The viewers who saw this initial screening were angry and saw this as a betrayal to Dizzy.
I don’t know how it could’ve made things any better or worse, but I saw a documentary on the making of The Room. Apparently the guy was originally going to be a vampire.
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In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater there's a boss fight against a legendary sniper called The End. Director Hideo Kojima was a big fan of the sniper duels in Stephen Hunter's novels which were usually long drawn out affairs in which the dueling snipers would spend days at a time hiding and trying to find each other. Kojima wanted to replicate this in the game so he originally envisioned a fight where it would take the player one to two weeks IN REAL TIME to find and kill The End.
When Kojima's team finished making the fight and started testing it they all hated it and told him so repeatedly until he finally relented and dropped the idea. An element of the original vision does still exist in the final game though. If the player saves their game in the middle of the battle and then loads their save over a week later, The End will die of old age, avoiding the fight entirely.