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15 Weird Early Versions Of Movies And Shows We Love

Bob’s Burgers almost had something in common with Silence of the Lambs.

15 Weird Early Versions Of Movies And Shows We Love

June 18, 2021

The initial idea for the Belcher family in Bob’s Burgers was to make them a family of literal cannibals. Seriously. Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:

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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them was going to be a documentary. In the very first discussions about the movie, the idea got floated that it could all be a documentary about what Newt Scamander gets up to. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider.com

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Stan Lee's cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy was going to be more rude. James Gunn's first idea was to make Lee one of the Collector's exhibits and flip off Groot when Groot runs into him. Disney didn't like that idea at all, though. CRACKED.COM — Source: Comicbook.com

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The Minions were originally going to be robots, not whatever-they-a It'd be more fun to watch robots than actual humans get knocked around the thinking went plus, it'd be more believable for robots to be totally naive. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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Rogue One was going to have a happy(ish) ending where everyone survives. The filmmakers assumed that that was the only option Disney would let them do, but it turned out Disney had no problems killing the entire main cast. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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Return of the Jedi was going to end on a bittersweet and poignant note. Han would get in killed in battle mid-movie, Leia would become queen (and be pretty unsure about it), and Luke would walk away into the sunset. CRACKED.COM — Source: AVClub

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Rocky III

In an early draft, Rocky was going to meet the Pope in Rome in Rocky III. Rocky's final fight would be in the Coliseum in Rome, and he'd go to St. Peter's Basilica. Sly was desperate to work in an audience with the Pope, too. CRACKED.COM — Source: Slashfilm

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They were going to make Jar Jar Binks basically a rubbery, boneless alien. He was supposed to have elastic bones, so he'd stretch out into a weird blob whenever he went to a place that had heavy gravity or high pressure. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gizmodo

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Pixar's Brave originally wasn't supposed to take place in Scotland. BRAVE t was just supposed to be set in a generic northern European medieval country, but the team made it increasingly specific and eventually they put it in Scotland. CRACKED.COM — Source: DenOfGeek

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Blade Runner

In an early version of the Blade Runner script, Roy Batty's dying word is Crap. Also, Deckard takes Rachel to the countryside and shoots her in the head because, he says, if he hadn't done it, they definitely would have. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gizmodo

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Doc Brown was going to have a pet chimpanzee in Back to the Future. The studio feedback was that no movie with a chimpanzee ever made any money, so they had to throw out the chimp and give Doc a pet dog. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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The Spy Who Loved Me

The plot of The Spy Who Loved Me was going to heavily feature acupuncture. Somehow, James Bond was going to use acupuncture skills to operate on the Queen of England to remove a bomb implanted into her body. CRACKED.COM — Source: New Statesman

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The Belchers from Bob's Burgers were originally going to be cannibals. FUN BOB'S BURGERS HOME A C Creator Loren Bouchard's first idea was a show about a family that runs a restaurant who are cannibals, but Fox asked him if the cannibalism angle was really needed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Business Insider

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Pee-wee Herman

Pee-wee's Big Adventure was almost a kind of adaptation of Disney's Pollyanna. Paul Reubens got a new idea when he got a gift bike with the sign that said Bicycle parking for Pee-wee Herman only and had a picture of Pee-wee. CRACKED.COM — Source: LATimes, Google Books

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The first idea for Supernatural was really a rip-off of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. It would be about a reporter who drove around in a van and wrote about urban legends, but the studio asked for a new idea which became Supernatural. CRACKED.COM — Source: DenOfGeek

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James Bond

No Time To Die was supposed to reveal that Spectre was just a dream. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga thought it'd be cool to reveal that everything that happens in Spectre after the needle goes into Bond's head happened inside his mind. COM — Source: Yahoo

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