You'd think the first thing that would be locked down on a $200 million Brad Pitt blockbuster would be the script, but World War Z's famously troubled production proves that even the biggest movies in Hollywood aren't immune to the dreaded reshoot. Many things can determine if a movie needs a new ending – duff scripts, scissor-happy producers, finicky test audiences – but it's almost always an indicator that something just ain't right. With a mandatory spoiler warning before we begin, here are 10 movies that needed their finales tweaked – and it wasn't always for the best...
The ending you saw: Brad Pitt's plane crash lands in Cardiff, Wales, conveniently near the World Health Organization. It plays host to a tense finale in which Pitt's character Gerry Lane navigates through a series of zombie-filled corridors in order to test out his theory about immunity from zombies. It has not been particularly well received due to a huge tonal shift, but that could be because people know how the movie was originally to end...
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