10 Strangest Movie Changes Made After Filming

When it comes to frothy, apparently harmless family entertainment like 2000's Thomas and the Magic Railroad, you probably don't expect much in the way of post-production turmoil, right?

Except writer-director Britt Alcroft - who also created the TV series Thomas & Friends - revealed years later that she was forced by the film's producers to heavily reshape the film during editing.

First and foremost, she was given the head-scratching instruction to remove the movie's primary antagonist, P.T. Boomer (Doug Lennox), due to young test audiences finding him "too scary."

Rather than tone down his presence through editing and/or reshoots, Boomer was just... cut from the film almost entirely despite appearing in the movie's marketing. Instead, train Diesel 10 was rewritten to be the primary villain.

Boomer did sort-of get his time to shine eventually, however, when a workprint of the movie found its way online, restoring Boomer's part in all of its unnerving "glory."