10 Times Movies Changed Real Life For Being Too Unbelievable

2001: A Space Odyssey was heavily iterated on throughout its development, and one of the most peculiar changes Stanley Kubrick made? Swapping out Saturn for Jupiter as the Discovery mission's final destination.

The reason for this? While testing the cutting-edge special effects to bring Saturn to life, it was felt that the rings looked too fake, like cheap metal foil.

And so, Kubrick and his team opted to set the finale on Jupiter instead, as it was decidedly less of a challenge to realistically replicate on screen.

Yet in a delicious bout of irony, when Voyager 1 sent back detailed pictures of Saturn's rings over a decade later in November 1980, the rings had the same dull "fakeness" as Kubrick's scrapped model.

So Kubrick, ever a stickler for detail, was basically totally on the money, but cannily believed that general audiences would simply interpret the foil rings as a bad special effect.