6 Blockbusters From 2015 That Almost Had Completely Different Endings

By Sam Hill / September 9, 2015

There's a common feeling with movie endings that they're set in stone from the beginning; that filmmakers know exactly where they're headed the very moment production begins. Whilst that's true of some movies, there are others in which the filmmakers have spent countless weeks - months and months on those rarer occasions - umming and ahhing with regards on how to go about the ending. Which means that the climax that you ultimately see isn't necessarily the first one they had in mind. Others were conceived, storyboarded, or even shot, only for the director to decided on something else - or the studio to intervene. 2015 was no different; some of the biggest blockbusters and highest-grossing movies were all conceived - at one time or another - with completely different endings. Some of which would have probably been better had the filmmakers had the balls to include them, whilst others were so obviously ill-judged that they could have had a disastrous effect on the movies in general. Here, then, are six blockbusters from 2015 that almost had completely different endings; some good, some bad, most of them inherently curious and interesting to ponder...