10 Movie Endings You Can No Longer See
1. Deep Blue Sea
Proving the power that test audiences have, Deep Blue Sea not only has an original ending that nobody has seen in 20 years but also the choices made in exercising it actually affect the finished product.
Susan McCallister, as played by Saffron Burrows, morphs throughout the film as a woman researching shark brain tissue looking for cures for Alzheimer’s disease into someone fighting for her life and killing off her specimens in order to save herself and others. In the original ending, Susan survives the ordeal. Test audiences were apparently distraught, as they had concluded that Susan was the real villain of the piece. After all, if it wasn’t for her work the sharks wouldn’t be attacking at all!
Thus, a one-day reshoot occurred and, thanks to some new CGI, Susan is gobbled up as she tries to make her escape. Is it penance for her so-called misgivings? Or a very sudden and brutal death for a character who was caught in an unfortunate set of circumstances?
The jury is still out if the ending of Deep Blue Sea was the right call, but whatever you think of Susan’s fate it’s an interesting change to make. Moreover, it has created an alternate ending that has been lost to time.