18 Famous Movies That Were Nearly Awful
These famous movies came thisclose to being cinematic turds.
Movies go through a lot of drafts in their early stages, presumably by exhausted creative teams trying to figure out what the kids are into these days. Because of that, there are so many ill-conceived ideas that it's wild that anything coherent makes it to the theaters at all.
Here are some of the weirdest plots and characters that studios were seriously considering, with links to more detailed explanations.