9 Post-Credits Scenes That Were Axed From Movies

Matt Reeves' sublime sequel ends on a bit of a downer for protagonist Caesar and his loyal ape comrades, with them steeling themselves for a war that they know is imminent. The very last thing we see before the credits roll is Caesar contemplating the future of his kind, but at one point, there was almost more on top of that.

The extra footage - that Reeves actually shot - would've shown the apes walking out onto the Golden Gate Bridge, gazing off into the distance at a fleet of incoming warships. However, the director removed this scene because he felt that it took the story too far into the next movie.

Now, we have to do a little bit of speculation here because nobody involved has explicitly confirmed that this extra tidbit was intended as a mid or post-credits sequence, but several signs indicate that it was.

For one thing, the final song on the movie's soundtrack is called Ain't That A Stinger, which comes after a track called Planet of the End Credits. Or, to put it another way, there was once a stinger after the end credits.

In addition, the first film in the series actually did have a mid-credits sequence, so it wouldn't have been completely weird for the sequel to have one either.