10 Movie Deaths That Were Supposed To Be WAY Better
10. Kim Jong-Un - The Interview
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's no-holds-barred political satire The Interview concludes in suitably over-the-top fashion as Kim Jong-un (Randall Park) is killed when his helicopter is shot with a tank shell by Dave Skylark (James Franco).
It's a shocking, brutal, and perversely funny death scene - set to a tender cover of Katy Perry's "Firework" as it is - albeit one which was actually supposed to be far more graphic.
The infamous Sony Pictures hack ahead of the movie's release revealed that Rogen and Goldberg faced a battle from Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai over the nature of the climactic death, with Hirai insisting that a clear shot of Jong-un's exploding head be altered before release.
Seeing no end to the fight otherwise, the directors agreed to obscure the despot's head with flames, while also removing fire from his hair and darkening the faint visible blood to make it seem less "realistic."
Sadly the original scene has never been released to the public, but it sure sounds even more provocative than what we ended up with.