6. The Xenomorph Very Nearly Had The Ability To Talk (And Would Have Recorded A Message On The Ship's Log) In Alien
There are some original ideas associated with certain movies that sound so inherently nutty that they're almost impossible to believe, but trust me when I say: at one point in Alien, the Xenomorph was supposed to talk. Not only was it supposed to talk, fair reader, but the Xenomorph was supposed to record a message on the ship's log at the very end of the flick, having ripped Ripley's head from her body. Oh, did I also mention that said alien would be imitating Ripley's voice as it did so? I know: this sounds like the sum of some horribly outdated Saturday Night Live sketch that got cut, but director Ridley Scott has genuinely talked about this original ending to Alien on the special features of the DVD. The strangest thing about this, by the way, was that it wasn't removed from the movie because it appeared to have been conjured up by an insane wizard trying to write a screenplay, but because they wanted Ripley to survive her ordeal. Crisis narrowly averted.