Deleted Movie Endings That Would Have Changed the Whole Film

Movie studios consider tons of ideas during the early stages of filming any big-budget picture. Ultimately, many ideas are scrapped and replaced with alternative endings that are safer for audiences or can ensure possible sequels.

But a lot of deleted movie endings are so mind-bending and awesome that they might have changed the entire film… and made it a whole lot better. Although the final product was usually successful, the finished movie might be a lot less interesting without its originally intended ending.

“Salt”

“Salt” stars Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a Russian sleeper agent who’s working for the CIA. In the alternate ending, we get to see Salt disguised as a nun while she infiltrates the Russian facility where she was trained.

Salt takes out the Russian spymaster, Orlov and the scene ends with the facility blowing up. This implies that Salt would have hunted down and destroyed the entire operation in the sequel.

“Get Out”

In “Get Out,” Chris escapes with his friend Rod’s help after killing his girlfriend and her family in self-defense. But in the alternate ending, the lights and sirens in the final scene are cops who arrest Chris.

When Rod visits him in prison to go over what happened, Chris tells Rod, “I stopped it,” which insinuates that he had made peace with his actions to prevent his girlfriend and her family from doing to others what they had tried to do to him.

“Happy Death Day”

In “Happy Death Day,” Tree, a college student, is stuck in a time loop after a masked killer murders her on her birthday. In the end she learns it was her roommate Lori all along, and she stops her. But in the original ending, Tree kills Lori and sustains injuries.

And while recovering in the hospital, the wife of the professor Tree was sleeping with murders her, making the alternate ending far more horrifying.

“Guardians of the Galaxy”

In the final scene of “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the team flies off on their ship while the song, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” plays in the background.

But the deleted scene shows Peter Quill’s grandfather looking up at the sky while holding a photo of his grandson and deceased daughter. The scene implies that Peter’s grandfather had witnessed his abduction and was waiting for him to come home.

But director James Gunn felt that the sad scene would have ruined the otherwise happy montage.