10 Movie Endings You Can No Longer See

A difference between the Stephen King novel Misery and the 1990 Rob Reiner directed movie adaption became its most iconic moment. In the book, crazed super fan Annie tries to stop the escape of her captured favourite writer Paul Sheldon by removing his foot with an axe. In order for Paul to come out of the motion picture version in a more triumphant way, Reiner and company decided it might be best for Annie to simply smash Paul’s ankle in with a hammer. Seems like Paul can’t catch a break either way.

Almost certainly the smallest, most amusing but keen eyed change to ever come from a test audience preview was the suggestion to reshoot the ending of Misery where Paul, months later, is haunted by his experiences. Why? Because "he needs to walk with a cane".

Paul was too healthy after his experiences and it was too much of a suspension of disbelief. In all fairness, it’s a good point. But it makes you wonder how many people called this out. Apparently it was enough of a pressing issue to fire up the production trucks again as the scene was indeed reshot. It's presumably almost identical except this time Paul gets a walking stick to lean on.

The “cane-less” ending of Misery is not really something we particularly need and as such it’s something that has either been destroyed or locked in a vault. Regardless, it’s a fun story and an anomaly in otherwise drama-free production.