10 Unused Film Endings That Were Better Than The Real Thing

1. Johnny Depp Was Going To Be In Birdman

Well, that was the plan originally. Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman is a wonderful, sprawling, technically dazzling film that played on star Michael Keaton's past as a certain Dark Knight on the big screen in telling the story of a washed-up former superhero actor trying to find artistic legitimacy on Broadway. That post-modern €œmeta€-ness would've been dialled up 1000% with the originally scripted ending. In the final ending, Keaton's character shoots himself on stage, and it winds up being the best thing he could've done for his career. He gets a new nose, and then he...well, what happens next is kind of open to interpretation. Originally, though, his new-found fame was undercut by the implication that this sort of cycle never ends. At the end of Birdman, audiences were going to be faced with a different actor struggling to be taken seriously after making it big in a blockbuster movie: except it was going to be Johnny Depp, playing himself, plagued by the voice of Jack Sparrow, glaring at a Pirates Of The Caribbean poster in his dressing room. Which would've been the cherry on top of a daring, sharp and incisive movie, but was probably a little close to the bone for the current star of Mortdecai...