10 Movie Moments That Were Almost WAY Darker
1. Cooper Nearly Properly Sacrificed Himself In The Black Hole - Interstellar
Christopher Nolan's 2014 modern sci-fi classic Interstellar concludes with one of the most moving and mind-bending final stretches of the last decade.
After launching himself into the black hole Gargantua in his bid to ensure Amelia makes it to the third planet, Joseph Cooper ends up inside of a "tesseract" that allows him to see and influence moments from the past. This all leads to him emotionally communicating with his daughter Murph via a book case and Morse Code and eventually being reunited with a much older version of his child.
Had Jonathan and Chris Nolan stuck to the former's original ending, however, then Cooper wouldn't have actually made it that far.
When talking to an audience at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California (via Nerdist), the film's co-writer explained how he originally would have "had the Einstien-Rosen bridge (wormhole) collapse when Cooper tries to send the data back.”
This meant that, had Jonathan's early idea for the film's ending survived, Cooper would've simply made a heroic sacrifice late on... and that would've been that. It also isn't known whether he would've even successfully sent that all-important data back to Earth in this version either.
So, instead of getting to share one last moment with his dying kid before hopping in a ship to go and find Amelia, this rather bleak end would've instead just acted as a brutal reminder of how unforgiving space can truly be.