10 Alternate Endings To 2020 Movies You Almost Saw

The Russo brothers' pet project Extraction ends with protagonist Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) getting young Ovi Mahajan (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) to safety, but at great physical cost.

A badly wounded Rake is then shot and falls into the river, before the final scene flashes forward eight months, where an out-of-focus figure resembling Rake watches Ovi taking a swim.

But director Sam Hargrave actually had a more concrete ending in mind, which appeared in Joe Russo's original script:

"In the original script - and this was my idea - Rake does not live. His story was complete because he found something to keep him alive, and his journey was complete when he came to redemption through sacrifice...He made the choice he was OK with. He had come to terms with his past and the choice he made in the present saved this kid, and if that meant him dying, so be it. And that was his journey in my mind."

But Hargave ultimately relented due to test screenings dividing audiences, leading him to shoot a more ambiguous ending which left the door open for sequels:

"We had a version of the movie, and we tested it a lot, and it was not surprising that a lot of people wanted the character to live, and some people wanted him to die. People were torn; it was almost down the middle. We want to appeal to as many people as possible without compromising the integrity of the story. And so, we think a pretty good compromise is to make an ambiguous ending."