10 Times Movies Panicked And CHANGED THE ENDING Just Before Release

Deep Blue Sea's ending was tooled incredibly late in production after Warner Bros. were left spooked by a test screening which took place less than a month before its July 1999 release.

Originally, the character of Dr. Susan McCallister (Saffron Burrows) survived the shark-infested ordeal, yet the most consistent feedback from test audiences was that McCallister was unlikeable and needed to die at the end, with one feedback card even reading, "Kill the bitch!"

Evidently, audiences saw McCallister as an unsympathetic character responsible for the entire catastrophe, and desired to see her punished for her deeds.

As a result, with the clock ticking Warner Bros. quickly organised a one-day reshoot with Burrows bobbing around in the water, while the film's VFX artists put together a last-minute sequence where McCallister is devoured by the digital shark.

Ultimately you'd scarcely know it was a reshoot - the death scene fits into the fabric of the ending pretty organically, and surely helped the film become a modest box office success.