10 Times Movies Went To Extreme Lengths For Scenes That Didn’t Make The Cut

As we've noted already on this list, sometimes an elaborate scene can work perfectly fine in the lead-up to a project being released unto the world, only for a tragic real-world incident to seriously alter the end product.

Hot on the heels of a horrendous shooting taking place in a cinema around the time of the release of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad suddenly found itself in a precarious position. That's because this gangster thriller set in 1949 contained a notable scene involving a particularly gnarly shootout inside of the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Despite already airing sections of this grand display of violence - which must've taken a significant time to shoot - in TV spots and trailers for the flick, the decision was made to hold off on releasing the Ryan Gosling-starring picture so appropriate reshoots could be captured and infused into the feature. A subsequent shootout in Chinatown was eventually used instead. But that still didn't do the star-studded flop any favours at the box office, with Gangster Squad only making a weak $100 million on a £75 million budget.