23 Movie-Saving Script Changes

Some of your favorite movies ever, as you're lucky to have never seen them.
23 Movie-Saving Script Changes

How different is the finished product on the screen from the script that was written? Vastly, it turns out -- and much better. Our readers provided us with some of the most brilliant cinematic changes ever. Winner got $100 ...

His whole life was a million-toone shot. ROCKY In the original script for ROCKY, Rocky throws the fight after realizing he didn't want to be a profess
In an early draft Ferris stole savings bonds from his father to fund his day off. CRACKED.COM
CRAGKED.OON In the original ending for Sezen John Doe held Det. Mills hostage before shooting and killing him. Det. Lt. Somerset then tortured Doe by
CRACKEDOON SIDNEY And this, Billy stud-bucket, is for having an incredibly small weenie. SCREAM Original Script Kevin Williamson, Screenwriter: Purvey
In the original draft of the scene where The Bride fights Go-Go Yubari and The Crazy 88s, she wielded both a samurai sword... Land a god-damned boomer
In the original draft of Rambo, Sly admitted that the dialogue was horrible. In this scene where the town sheriff pulls him over, Rambo was suppose to
ONE OF THE MOST-QUOTED LINES IN THE WARRIORS IS WHEN LUTHER IS CLINKING THE BOTTLES TOGETHER, HOLLERING WARRIORS.... COME OUT AND PLAAAYYY. THE OR
Best phaser fight oF the 2009 Star Trek reboot was scripted to be a Vulcan/Romulan Karate fight http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/StarTrek.htm
CRACKED I'LL COME BACK.
CRACKED.COM In the play that 'Casablanca' is based on, Rick and Louis don't have this chummy beginning of a beautiful friendship as they go Off and fi
IN THE FIRST DRAFT OF SCREAM INSTEAD OF THIS GUY... ...THE KILLERS WERE DEREK AND HALLIE AFTER THE REVEAL, HALLIE SAYS: EVER SEE NATURAL BORN KILLERS
DINOSAUDR CLST AmE BOOML BUT A STEVEN SPIELBERG ENDING HAD KNEW PARK SKULL ORIGINAL A THE T. BY -REX THE COME HAD JURASSIC BACKE TO TO CRUSHED SHOOTIN
CRACKED.COM In the script: Leave the gun. Not in the script: Take the cannoli. Ad-libbed by Richard Castellano .Source: screenrant.com/oreatest-un
According to the orginal script for the original Star Wars trilogy. Uncle Owen was in fact NOT Anakin's brother, but actually... Obi Wan's brother!
THE ORIGINAL SCRIPTED LINE WHAT ARE YOU?! I AM THE KNIGHT! MICHAEL KEATON'S ADLIB I'M BATMAN.
In the original script, I'm the king of the woridy is never uttered. Instead, the only dialogue in the scene is: FABRIZIO8 (thatgs this guy) I can s
During the famous sketch scene in Titanic, the original line was Lie on that couch. A flustered Leonardo DiCaprio said, Lie on the bed... uh, couch
ALIENS WHEN THE DROPSHIP CRASHES INSTEAD OF RESCUING HIM, PRIVATE HUDSoN (BILL PAXTON) WAS MEANT TO SAY: Just tell me what the fuck, we're supposed t
CRACKED.COM I didn't kill my wife. It's Kimble. Face dark and desperate. Dangerous. Hand flexing on the pistol. They lock eyes for a beat. KIMBLE I di
AW MAN! I accidentally shot Marvin in the... ...NECK??!! According to Phil Lamarr (Marvin), his death was scripted to be a mercy killing AFTER Vincent
Pop Quiz: In the original script for The Truman Show, Truman: a) Watches and does nothing while two men rape a woman at knifepoint, b) Cheats on his w
Orion, the financial backer for The Terminator, wanted James Cameron to give Kyle Reese a companion: a cyborg canine. Luckily James Cameron shot that
CRACKED.cO IN THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF STAR WARS: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. EMPEROR PALPATINE WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED COS DASHIT

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