10 Famous Movie Endings That Had Radical Last Minute Changes

2. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Almost Had The Worst Ending Ever

Edgar Wright's comic book adaptation may not have set the box office on fire, but creativity-wise, it's a total success and deserves the cult following it has slowly achieved. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is a madcap, fast-paced mash-up of indie rock culture and retro video games, as Michael Cera's eponymous hero has to battle the seven evil exs of new girlfriend Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) in order to continue dating her. Besides the shout outs to Sonic The Hedgehog, Smashing Pumpkins and The Legend Of Zelda, the film is also a surprisingly mature and heartfelt paean to growing up and falling in love as an adult. As opposed to a jobless layabout who plays Nintendo all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXhXvuwl14 The ending reflected that as Scott, having defeated all but the evil ex in charge - Jason Schwartzman's delightfully douchey Gideon Graves - loses Ramona to the guy who literally has a way of getting into her head. And because he had failed to mention to her that, when they started going out, he was still technically dating high schooler Knives Chau, who's still stalking him. After moping about for a bit Cera's character finds himself reinvigorated by Gideon's opening of a new club in town, heading down there to finally meet his nemesis face-to-face and kick his ass. Which he almost manages, before the hipster bad guy stabs him in the back with a big old sword and leaves him to bleed out on the checkered floor. Then Scott returns, realises that he's fighting not for Ramona but for himself, explodes Gideon into a shower of coins, apologises to Ramona for the Knives thing, and they walk off into the sunset together. It brings things full circle and is a lovely ending for the plot and the characters, who evolved and changed over the two hour run time. Except that wasn't Wright's intended ending at all, despite it being the way that the comic book source material went. Thankfully, this is one of the few cases of a test audience knowing better than a filmmaker. Scott still turns up to defeat Gideon, but afterwards he spills his guts to Ramona in a wholly different way. Rather than reaffirming that he loves her and he needed to figure some stuff out about himself to properly realise that, achieving a level of maturity he lacked for basically the whole film, he tells her that he realised they're totally wrong for each other. And instead goes off with the 17-year-old Knives instead. Which is not only a slap in the face for fans, but also at odds to that aforementioned character development, as Scott goes back to playing video games all day with his underage girlfriend and Ramona disappears forever.