10 Deleted Moments In Recent Movies That Nearly Happened

An awful lot of tweaking, testing, chopping and changing goes down before any feature arrives in theatres.

Sometimes an idea that sounded brilliant initially simply doesn't work when thrown onto the screen, or a once promising and exciting pitch just creates more problems for a director to deal with.

So, the minds behind the following recent films had no choice but to delete each and every one of these various compelling or just plain bizarre moments from their features in the end. However, fans were certainly closer to witnessing everything from strange bug dance numbers to a few surprising on-screen comebacks than they likely realised over the last few months.

Barbie bombshells, entire underwater musical sequences, and a number of intriguing post-credit stingers were all so very close to appearing in some of the biggest movies of 2023.

But it's up to you to decide whether you feel these recent flicks would have been improved by the addition of extra scenes, appearances, or shocking one-liners, or agree that the directors involved all did the right thing in leaving super cameos and stunning late reveals on the cutting room floor.

And be warned: spoilers are incoming!

Despite not boasting his own tune in the original Little Mermaid flick, Javier Bardem's King Triton did very much get the chance to unleash a solo song during the making of the recent live-underwater-action version of the Disney tale.

But rather than treat the world to the sound of the Spanish acting legend warbling in the water, the call was eventually made to scoop his 'Impossible Child' song out of this particular ocean.

According to Bardem himself, when talking to Digital Spy about the deleting of this number, the new song written by Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda was "beautiful" and "kind of rock and roll style".

In the end, though, director Rob Marshall (via Cinemablend) ultimately realised that keeping the fully shot song that goes "into his internal thoughts" in the film would have "taken away from the story because you have to wait to the end for that moment of connection and understanding what he's feeling and how he's feeling".

For those still desperate to see and hear what this Bardem rock and roll Triton number would have looked like, though, you'll no-doubt be pleased to learn that this 'Impossible Child' tune will eventually be seen at some point, with Bardem noting how his deleted song will finally be available as an extra when it dives into Disney+ in September.