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00:00From grisly death scenes that were too extreme for their own good, to hilariously odd sequences that would have likely
00:07derailed an entire project.
00:09These deleted scenes have to be seen to be believed.
00:13I'm Gareth from WhatCulture.com and here are deleted movie scenes you won't believe actually happened.
00:19Empress Palpatine takes the throne.
00:21Star Wars Episode 9 The Rise of Skywalker
00:24Coming into J.J. Abrams' 2019 send-off to the Skywalker saga, one of the major rumours doing the rounds
00:31revolved around Daisy Ridley's Rey finally giving in to the dark side.
00:36However, by the time The Rise of Skywalker burst onto the scene, it was revealed that Rey was simply coming
00:41face-to-face with her darkest fear in the future.
00:45A version of herself consumed by the dark side, equipped with a rather cool double-bladed lightsaber.
00:51Yet some behind-the-scenes footage of The Rise of Skywalker shoot actually later revealed some previously unseen scenarios involving
00:59this dark Rey persona.
01:01In perhaps the most striking image released by Disney and Lucasfilm, Abrams is seen communicating with Ridley in full Empress
01:08Palpatine get-up,
01:09whilst the actor is perched on the Sith throne that we see towards the latter stages of the grand finale.
01:15Could this mean there was an alternative ending which depicted Dark Rey replacing her grandfather as a Sith Lord?
01:21Though that would have been shocking.
01:23It's more likely this scene was shot to visually complement the moment in Rise of Skywalker,
01:28where Rey explains experiencing a vision of herself on the throne of the Sith.
01:32An NC-17 death scene.
01:35The Dark Knight Rises
01:36Now, The Dark Knight Rises may not be a film that completely shies away from some rather unsettling moments of
01:43violence.
01:44Hell Bane literally breaks the bats back in the final entry of Christopher Nolan's trilogy.
01:49But it once boasted a moment so chilling that the feature very nearly earned itself an NC-17 rating.
01:55According to actor Matthew Modine, his character of Peter Foley was once set for a pretty disturbing conclusion in the
02:02film.
02:03One that was even shot on set.
02:05As many will no doubt remember, Foley is viciously killed by Talia Al Ghul during the feature's climax.
02:11However, viewers don't actually see the moment he's dispatched by the daughter of Raj Al Ghul.
02:16This brutal moment was in fact filmed by Nolan.
02:19But the visual of Foley, or rather Modine's stunt double,
02:22being pulverized by the vehicle and sent flying through the air,
02:26only to smack into the concrete with a sickening thud,
02:30was deemed too extreme to include in the feature.
02:32Nolan even went as far as to tell the actor,
02:35if he would have put it in the movie, it would have got an NC-17 rating because it was
02:39so violent.
02:41Borat takes part in a porno.
02:44Borat.
02:45If you've ever had the pleasure of witnessing any one of Sacha Baron Cohen's consistently outlandish skits
02:50whilst under the guise of his trusty Kazakhstani journalist Borat,
02:54you'd be forgiven for thinking that no situation was off limits.
02:57Yet in the case of Borat's first big-screen adventure,
03:01Cohen was clearly game for a rather raunchy scene to make the final cut.
03:05But that still didn't stop the controversial moment landing on the cutting room floor in the end.
03:10Cohen explained whilst on Conan that they filmed a full scenario which saw the character joining a porn movie.
03:16This entirely real situation soon escalated when the actor kept derailing the shoot
03:21by respectfully allowing the two porn stars to continue without him,
03:25despite being directed to join in.
03:28Things soon got out of hand when Borat only agreed to sleep with this co-star if she had hair
03:33on her pubis,
03:34resulting in the director gluing pieces of his own hair on said area to move the shoot along.
03:39Yep, yep, that actually happened.
03:41Ultimately, Borat explaining that he contracted syphilis a whopping 24 times was the final straw,
03:47leading to the poor actress on set thankfully putting her foot down.
03:51Dr. Julia Harris takes things too far.
03:54Horrible Bosses 2
03:55One of the most talked about elements coming out of the first Horrible Bosses movie
04:00was the sight of Jennifer Aniston's Dr. Julia Harris routinely tormenting Charlie Day's Dale Arbus,
04:06with the character doing everything in her power to blackmail her colleague into sleeping with her.
04:11Yeah, things were taken up a notch when it came to the film's eventual sequel,
04:15to the point where the folks behind the feature definitely felt they'd gone a little bit too far.
04:19As Aniston explained in an appearance on Conan,
04:22one deleted scene involved intercourse with her character that was kind of not even mutual.
04:27It would have seen Harris having unconsensual sex with Dale whilst he was in a coma,
04:31making it fairly obvious why the anything-but-funny scene was ultimately given the chop in the end.
04:37The disturbing act is still alluded to in the sequel, which is a problem in its own right,
04:42but at least someone had the sense to see that throwing this horrendous sequence into the film
04:46would have invited more unwanted controversy aimed at Aniston's character and the movie as a whole.
04:52Logan Kills Jean Grey
04:53Again, Logan
04:55James Mangold's Logan wasn't afraid to delve into deeper and darker waters.
05:00With the old man Logan-inspired tale constantly reminding us that life ain't all sunshine and rainbows
05:05during its 137-minute runtime.
05:08But many will be surprised to learn that arguably one of the film's bleakest moments,
05:12and oh boy is that saying something, didn't even make it into the finished product.
05:17Coming during the sequence which saw Logan, Charles and Laura enjoying some dinner
05:21with a family they'd helped in the wake of a road accident,
05:24when asked whether Ol' Wolvie was ever married, Professor X drops a tragic bombshell.
05:28Charles explains that Logan was in fact married to Jean Grey,
05:32a character fans of the X-Men flicks and comics know only too well.
05:36However, the professor would also add that she passed,
05:39thoroughly killing the mood by stating that he killed her.
05:42Mangold has gone on record to admit that while he liked the moment in isolation,
05:46when cut into the movie it had a powerful effect of damping that moment.
05:51Yet it is interesting to note that Logan once again was seemingly responsible
05:54for the death of his beloved Jean.
05:57Pennywise eats a baby.
05:59It.
06:00Yep, this actually happened, or at least it was shot.
06:03As Bill Skarsgård revealed on the Playback podcast a few years ago,
06:07a scene was filmed for the first It feature which focused on the backstory
06:11of the demented being that would eventually become Pennywise.
06:14This sequence turned out really, really disturbing according to the actor himself,
06:18and was ultimately left on the cutting room floor.
06:21Later down the road, the script used to shoot this freakish moment was then leaked online,
06:26revealing that the deleted scene in question would have involved the earlier form of Pennywise
06:31devouring a baby girl in front of her own mother.
06:34By the sounds of it, the exchange would have been up there
06:36with some of the monster's most barbaric and gruesome acts to date.
06:40But the sight of an innocent child being eaten alive by this creature
06:44would have likely been a bit too much for more than a few.
06:47So it's no surprise everyone involved decided to spare audiences
06:50the horror of this horrific act on the big screen.
06:53The Force isn't strong with NSYNC.
06:56Star Wars Episode 2, Attack of the Clones.
06:59Brace yourselves, but a long time ago in a galaxy not far away enough,
07:03a certain boy band filmed a cameo appearance in George Lucas' second prequel entry.
07:08For those wondering why the likes of J.C. Chasers,
07:11Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone of NSYNC fame
07:14were ultimately absent from Attack of the Clones in the end though.
07:18It's rumoured that the apparent fan backlash which met this decision during the shoot was to blame.
07:23The lads reportedly all took part in the filming of the movie's epic Geonosis battle scene,
07:28donning Jedi robes for the mighty skirmish.
07:31But their appearances, which were said to have been near undetectable in the first place,
07:35were thrown out by the time the lacklustre prequel hit the big screen.
07:38It may have been set to wield lightsabers and use the Force at one point,
07:42but before long it was bye-bye-bye for these pop sensations.
07:47An Alien Crab Walk
07:48Alien
07:48The age-old adage of less is more usually lends itself perfectly to the creation and execution
07:55of a movie monster on the big screen.
07:57One glance at the way Steven Spielberg had his audience do the heavy lifting for him,
08:01when bringing big ol' Brucey to life and into our nightmares in Jaws,
08:06sits as perhaps the most notable example of this.
08:09However, Ridley Scott's delivery of his xenomorph in Alien undoubtedly comes in as a close second.
08:15While Scott did masterfully use the all-round dark and gloominess of his chosen Nostromo setting
08:20to effectively tease the appearance of the terrifying creature for the most part,
08:24one scene which failed to make the final cut very nearly derailed all of that suspense
08:28that had been brilliantly building.
08:30Instead of having the alien creepily maraud towards Lambert
08:33before ultimately ending her life in a sickening fashion,
08:37the original cut of the scene had the xenomorph perform what can best be described
08:41as a crab walk towards its prey.
08:43It looked as hilarious as it sounds,
08:45and quickly shifted the vibe from intense to ludicrous.
08:49Luckily, Scott made the right call to leave this version of the scene in the editing room.
08:53J. Jonah Spider-Man?
08:55Spider-Man 2!
08:56If you thought J.K. Simmons' unexpected appearance at the end of Spider-Man Far From Home
09:01was the most shocking scene involving the actor in full J. Jonah Jameson guise,
09:06then do we have a treat for you!
09:08Released as part of Sony's Spider-Man 2.1 extended cut of the sequel to Sam Raimi's first Spider-Hit,
09:14we somehow found ourselves in a situation which depicted Jameson jumping around his office
09:19in the web-slinger's iconic suit.
09:21All with his trademark cigar in mouth.
09:24This moment had come on the back of Peter Parker famously dropping the Spider-Man mantle in said sequel,
09:29even going as far as to throw his suit in the trash.
09:33The attire then ends up in Jonah's possession in the theatrical cut
09:36after being fished out of the bins by a passerby and delivered to the Daily Bugle.
09:41Yet things take a bit of a turn in the extended version when the loudmouthed editor-in-chief
09:45strangely opts to take the Spidey suit out for a test drive.
09:49Now let's be honest, it certainly makes for a balmy visual,
09:52but it no doubt would have felt out of place in the originally released film.
09:56But never fear, Spider-Jonah may just pop up in a multiverse near you going forward.
10:01Harley Quinn and Deadshot share a smooch.
10:04Suicide Squad
10:05On the back of Zack Snyder's Justice League breathing new life into a property
10:10that had once been considered a depressing failure,
10:13fans were quick to clamor for the release of the Aiyakut of 2016's ill-fated Suicide Squad.
10:18In an image which was unleashed onto the Twitterverse by user
10:21at RT Aiyakut SS, a previously unseen shot of Harley Quinn's snogging deadshot
10:27quickly caught people's attention.
10:29An accompanying piece of script which described this very moment soon followed on the same account,
10:35leading many to wonder just what else was butchered from Aiyakut's original movie.
10:39The director himself has confirmed that this Twitter user's leaks are legit,
10:43admitting that all of the excerpts that were posted onto the account were very much film.
10:47But will the positive response to these images and script leaks help persuade Warner Brothers
10:52to pull the Aiyakut trigger, well, stranger things have happened.
10:55Tobey Maguire's Spidey rematch with Willem Dafoe's Goblin,
10:59Spider-Man No Way Home.
11:01It's hard to feel in any way let down by a Spidey feature that still boasted everything
11:05from three different live-action web-slingers cracking wise,
11:09to a great many of the wall crawlers' most captivating enemies taking on the trio of Spider-Men.
11:14However, No Way Home did also come rather close to unleashing yet another crowd-pleasing occurrence
11:20that unfortunately wasn't able to make the finished cut.
11:23As revealed in the three big bad featurette for the MCU flick,
11:27there was clearly a moment there when John Watts had planned for Willem Dafoe's Goblin
11:31to battle it out with Tobey Maguire's Peter 2 on top of the former's glider.
11:35For whatever reason though, Watts and Co. thought it best to leave this particular epic rematch
11:40out of the spectacular closing stretch of the feature.
11:42Again, Maguire's Parker is at least given a few satisfying moments with Doc Ock and Sandman
11:48during that climax, but not getting to witness his Spidey take on Norman Osborn one last time,
11:54still likely left some feeling ever so slightly disappointed heading out of the multiversal madness.
11:59Arwen and Aragorn's Courtship Days, The Lord of the Rings.
12:03Despite eventually unleashing a collection of seemingly never-ending extended editions,
12:07that came simply stuffed with glorious additional scenes of Middle-earth goodness,
12:12it turns out that Peter Jackson did still find a way to leave out a compelling chunk of Lord of
12:17the Rings action.
12:18No, seriously, he did.
12:19That's according to the King of Gondor, at least.
12:22With Viggo Mortensen eventually revealing around the time of the 4K release of The Rings trilogy,
12:27that he once shot an eventually deleted scene involving Aragorn and Liv Tyler's Arwen during their early courting days.
12:34During said ultimately cut-out sequence, Mortensen was said to have been beardless and prettied up,
12:39with the team behind the flicks doing their best to make him look as young as possible before dressing him
12:44up like an elf.
12:45The scene taken straight from the pages involving the lovebirds wandering through a flowery meadow
12:50was described as a beautiful sequence by the eventual Academy Award nominee.
12:55However, it simply didn't matter how gorgeous this deeper dive into the pair's romantic past was,
13:00Jackson simply felt it was not needed.
13:02And so both Viggo and the rest of the world are still yet to see a moment the actor himself
13:07adored shooting.
13:08Give the man his flowers.
13:10Mother tries to baby feed Rat into Justin Long's mouth.
13:14Barbarian.
13:14Just when you thought it was physically impossible to create a movie more disturbing and horrifying
13:19than the one Zack Kreger managed to creepily piece together last year,
13:23it turns out the Barbarian very nearly came acquit with yet another entirely chilling moment.
13:28Whilst bringing rather horrendous piece of work AJ to life throughout the making of the hit horror thriller,
13:33Justin Long would note that there was actually another nightmarish sequence he shot involving the unsettling Mother
13:38that didn't manage to make the final cut.
13:41The scene, one Long himself admitted took it to another level,
13:45would have involved a terrified AJ trying to resist his captor.
13:48And this fighting against Mother would then lead to her biting the head off a nearby rat
13:53before chewing and attempting to baby bird it into her new baby's mouth.
13:58Said effect was achieved with warm, bloody prosciutto,
14:01leaving the actor understandably wincing at the thought of ever eating the meat again.
14:05Hilariously though, later that same evening,
14:08Long did precisely that when chowing down on a prosciutto-filled panini,
14:11claiming he simply could not help it.
14:13Hopefully he consumed it the traditional way this time around, yeah?
14:17Patricia and Pina's sexual relationship, House of Gucci.
14:20If Lady Gaga and Salma Hayek had it their way,
14:24then Ridley Scott's recent House of Gucci crime drama would have possessed a sexual relationship
14:28that eventually didn't make it out of the editing room.
14:31Offering something of a glimpse into the director's process when discussing the moments
14:35that didn't quite wiggle their way into the finished article,
14:38the Patricia actor would explain during an award screening of the film
14:41that moments involving herself and Hayek's character of Pina
14:44developing a sexual relationship together were explored on set.
14:49Going further, Gaga would note how Scott happily allowed his stars to go there,
14:52with the pop star-turned-acting powerhouse remembering asking Hayek on the day,
14:57so after Maurizio dies, maybe it gets hot?
15:00You think she's kidding was her co-star's response to the unexpected revelation,
15:04with it still not being 100% clear why Scott opted to leave the sequence
15:08involving his actors exploring this improvised part of their character's relationship
15:12out of the feature that landed in theatres.
15:14But Gaga is still apparently holding out hope their steamy interactions could still be seen one day,
15:20hinting at a potential director's cut, who knows, during the conversation.
15:23The Scarlet Witch decapitates Mordo.
15:26Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
15:28There was actually a moment there when Sam Raimi threatened to get even more disturbing
15:33in the thick of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
15:36Speaking during the audio commentary that accompanied the digital release of the superfilm,
15:40Raimi and writer Michael Waldron explained how there was once a moment in the universe-hopping tale
15:45that involved Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch brutalizing yet another familiar face.
15:50You can't have too many, can you?
15:51Or maybe you can as it goes.
15:53Early in the day, a moment involving Mordell from Universe 616
15:57trying to take Wanda Maximoff's power would have led to the one-time pal-off Stephen Strange
16:01being killed, and this early death would have ultimately then played into another unsettling
16:06scene, which would have seen the Scarlet Witch delivering the severed head of Mordo to the
16:10master of the mystic arts.
16:12Feeling it slowed down the feature too much in the end though, we had to lose it were Raimi's
16:16closing comments on the since-deleted moment of savagery.
16:19That would have shown Wanda cutting his head off right halfway through his ears, as Waldron put it.
16:24Yikes.
16:25The Mona Lisa was actually fine.
16:27Glass Onion, a Knives Out mystery.
16:30Ending with one hell of a jaw-dropping turn of events,
16:32Rian Johnson's recent Knives Out follow-up Glass Onion
16:35saw none other than the Mona Bloody Lisa being dramatically burned to a crisp.
16:40The incinerating of such an iconic piece of art in the thick of Mars life and mansion
16:44being wonderfully destroyed by Helen
16:46definitely helps close out Benoit Blanc's second cinematic investigation with an almighty bang.
16:51However, there was actually an end credit scene that very nearly softened this almighty blow,
16:56according to Johnson himself.
16:58This coder would have seen Blanc getting on the blower to a French-speaking figure,
17:02with his ah oui oui merci paving the way for a shot of the real Mona Lisa being safely
17:07stored in an office within the Louvre.
17:09Not wanting to pull a punch though, the director eventually decided to scrap this late reveal,
17:14claiming I like that the real painting gets destroyed in the movie.
17:17Though it is worth adding that no real Mona Lisas were harmed in the creation of this movie,
17:21instead the one used in the flick was created by a very talented local Belgrade artist,
17:26with the crew being forced to document themselves destroying it once they'd finished filming,
17:30in order to ensure it didn't end up on the counterfeit market.
17:33Lena Headey, Jeff Goldblum, and Peter Dinklage's not-good-enough cameos.
17:37Thor Love and Thunder
17:38While hilarious Screaming Goat and the God of Thunder's ass-cheek still managed to make
17:43Love and Thunder one of the most outlandish MCU outings to date,
17:46there was actually a ton of other moments left out of Taika Waititi's second Thor
17:50that would have likely made the project even more unforgettable.
17:53Away from Christian Bale admitting that himself and Waititi took his gore-the-god-butcher
17:58into some pretty rated-R territory at certain points during the shoot,
18:01in an attempt to push things as far as they could.
18:04Another collection of intriguing super scenes weren't deemed suitable for the finished godly sequel either.
18:10Or as Taika himself phrased it,
18:11the sequences that would have involved the return of the glorious Grandmaster
18:14and Infinity War's mighty dwarf E-Tree,
18:17played by Jeff Goldblum and Peter Dinklage respectively,
18:20and MCU debut of Game of Thrones' Lena Headey just weren't good enough to feature.
18:25And those praying to one day be the judge of whether these deleted star-studded scenes
18:29were up to scratch or not,
18:30were ultimately dealt a rather painful blow by the Oscar-winning filmmaker,
18:34with Waititi clearly explaining,
18:36I don't want people to see the deleted scenes because they're deleted for a reason.
18:39Bale may have also noted how his erased moments with Dinklage and Goldblum
18:44contain beautiful, brilliant stuff in his opinion,
18:47but Taika clearly wasn't a fan of what he had in the can.
18:50Paul Rudd's Blind Date, Bridesmaids
18:52Preparing to deliver one hell of an unexpected cameo showing
18:55from one of Hollywood's most loved comedy stars,
18:58Paul Feig's 2011 smash hit Bridesmaids very nearly came with additional Paul Rudd brilliance.
19:03The moment in question would have involved Rudd playing one of Annie's disastrous dates,
19:07with the eventual Ant-Man star playing against type as a hot-headed diva
19:11who loses his cool when his finger gets sliced mid-ice skating trip.
19:15We've all been there, right?
19:16And things were looking great as the moment tested well in early screenings,
19:21with Kristen Wiig explaining how people just went crazy
19:23when Rudd's hilarious performance showed up in the flick.
19:26But with the first cut of the side-splitting picture being too damn long,
19:30the difficult decision was eventually made to sacrifice this unanticipated appearance.
19:34Feig would even go as far as to class Rudd's work as one of the funniest things I've ever been
19:38a witness to.
19:39Yet that still couldn't keep him from having to kill his baby, so to speak.
19:42With the director feeling it just didn't ring true that Annie would be torn between
19:46Jon Hamm's Ted and Chris O'Dowd's Nathan,
19:48and also be going out on numerous blind dates at the same time,
19:52Peter reunites with his father, the amazing Spider-Man 2.
19:55Returning to the Spider-Verse now,
19:57and to a moment that likely would have sat as one of the most unexpected twists in Spidey history,
20:01had it actually become a theatrical cut reality during Andrew Garfield's time in the iconic suit.
20:06Coming after the sequence involving his Peter Parker being depicted regularly visiting his tragically killed girlfriend Gwen Stacy's grave,
20:13a deleted moment would have brought with it the staggering reveal that Parker's dead father actually wasn't gone at all.
20:19Despite last being seen falling to his doom in a plane crash alongside Peter's mother,
20:23Richard Parker makes a sensational comeback into his son's life,
20:27leading to one of the most powerful exchanges any Spider-Man film has ever seen,
20:31as this particular Spidey comes to terms with this life-changing event.
20:35And if that wasn't enough on top of his mother being very much confirmed as gone,
20:38a reveal that now bonds the two Parker men in a rather heartbreaking way,
20:43the follow-up sequence would have also seen Richard deliver the legendary
20:46with great power comes great responsibility line too.
20:49After all the pain and heartache both fans and Peter had to go through in that 2014 sequel,
20:54it's still hard to understand why this late source of hope was ultimately deemed not fit for the finished article,
21:00Velma and Daphne share a kiss, Scooby-Doo.
21:03Rumors of an apparent relationship secretly going on between Daphne and Velma
21:06throughout the events of the first live-action Scooby-Doo movie have been out there for a while,
21:11with writer James Gunn confirming a few years back that Velma in particular was explicitly gay in his original script.
21:17The studio repeatedly watered down this aspect of the character though,
21:20and according to Sarah Michelle Gellar, a moment involving her, Daphne and Velma sharing a smooch
21:25was also left out of the completed picture despite it actually being filmed.
21:29This revelation was swiftly followed up by Gellar noting how she had no idea where the deleted scene ended up.
21:35And for those wondering when this erased moment would have gone down,
21:38well, the actor explained back in 2002 that the kiss would have shown up during the supernatural body-switching sequence.
21:44Not knowing how to get the right souls back in the correct bodies,
21:47Daphne and Velma soon decided that they may as well try a quick smooch and see if that did the
21:52trick.
21:53And it would have.
21:54But the folks calling the shot clearly weren't happy to unleash a steamy moment Gellar feels the world wants to
21:59see.
21:59And so this particular mystery ink snog never saw the light of day.
22:03For now at least.
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