10 Alternate Endings To 2020 Movies You Almost Saw

The first of Pixar's two movies released this year, Onward doesn't actually have a villain in the traditional sense, focused strictly on two elven brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot (Tom Holland and Chris Pratt), taking a supernatural road trip in order to temporarily bring their dead father back to life.

But story supervisor Kelsey Mann explained that Onward went through elaborate re-writes before filmmaker Dan Scanlon and his team settled on a vision for the film's third act, resulting in a more typical villain character being jettisoned from the movie entirely:

"We initially had some more antagonistic forces. In our first couple screenings, we always knew the characters were going to go on a quest to get an item to finish Dad. And something was always guarding it. For the longest time, that was a character. But it never really made sense as to why. What was their motivation for holding this thing back?

It had to have a point of view on magic, and it ended up feeling like this character was stopping magic from being out in the world. It just complicated things. And we realized we didn't really need it. We didn't want to hear a new point of view on magic. So we nailed down what we have in the film, where something is protecting their ultimate goal, but it's kind of a mindless machine. And that works a lot better."