11 Movies Where The Reshoots Were Painfully Obvious

7. I Am Legend

Will Smith led this adaptation of the famous vampire story, which replaced the vampires with horrible CGI mutants and changed the meaning of the book's title completely. Warner Bros. clearly had confidence in it at first, but only a couple of months before the release date they ordered the a new ending.

In the movie Smith's former doctor kidnaps mutants to experiment on so he can find a cure for the disease. Throughout the movie there are hints the mutants are more intelligent than they appear (such as laying traps) and in the original ending they storm his house with a personal purpose.

It turns out they don't want to kill him; they just want a kidnapped member of their group back. In that moment Smith realises that he appeared like a monster to them. Warners apparently didn't like that so the new ending has Smith blow himself up to save some people.

This conclusion feels strange and abrupt, and it ignores the hints that the mutants were smarter than Smith gave them credit for. Neither one of the endings is particularly great, but at least the original makes sense within the context of the story.