13 Movie Characters Whose Fates Were Changed At The Last Minute
The fickle nature of the movie industry means that what a screenwriter or director thinks best suits a film might not sit quite as well with audiences (as we often learn to our cost). As such, when movies are screened for test crowds, often viewers will take exception to a character being killed - or as is sometimes the case, a character surviving - and fill that in on their feedback sheet at the conclusion of the screening. Enough repeat utterances of this complaint will result in the studio approaching the director to change said character's fate, which obviously involves re-scripting and re-shoots, something which isn't taken on lightly in Hollywood. Sometimes, filmmakers will be smart enough to shoot an alternate ending as a safety in case they change their mind, but whatever the circumstances, the result is the same; in these 10 movies, these 13 characters had their fates changed at the 11th hour...