Your Favorite Films That Had Crazy Alternate Endings

Donnie Darko

This film follows Donnie Darko’s month-long descent into insanity, ending with the classic “It was all a dream!” shortly before getting killed with a jet engine crashing through his bedroom. If that wasn’t crazy enough, the original cut was even wilder. In that version, Donnie gets fatally impaled with a plane part. It was deemed too graphic and cut.

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The More You Know

  • The Lion King was originally known as King of the Jungle until someone at Disney finally remembered that lions don’t actually live in jungles.
  • They designed E.T.'s face by combining Albert Einstein, Carl Sandburg and a pug dog.
  • Inspiration for the Hulk came from Frankenstein’s monster.
  • During the filming of The Grinch, Jim Carrey sought counseling from a Navy SEAL to learn torture-resistance techniques in order to handle the extensive makeup.
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