8 Movie Characters Who Were Killed Because Of Test Audiences

Much like Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, Tupac Shakur's Roland Bishop was doomed not to make it to the end of Ernest R. Dickerson's Juice either way. However, the nature of his demise was changed subtly after test audiences first laid their eyes on his original ending.

Dickerson initially filmed a sequence which saw Omar Epps' Q trying desperately to hold onto Bishop after the pair's rooftop scrap led to the antagonist dangling over the edge. In that moment, Bishop heard sirens closing in and calmly told Q, "I'm not going to jail", before loosening himself from his crew member's grips.

However, audiences were having none of this ending that the director himself felt "had more weight", not agreeing with the fact that Bishop was able to decide his own fate. So, after being told by the film's producers that “we may not support the movie in the way you want it to be supported” if they opted to not alter the ending, the death scene was changed to Bishop slipping from Q's grasps after pleading with him to "don't let me go!"

He may have taken a mortal fall in both versions, but the director ultimately had to sacrifice these more poignant final moments due to some unsatisfied test subjects.