Making a movie is no easy task. Especially, if the studio paying for it has a different idea to the director about what it should be. Hancock, Spider-Man 3, the new Fantas🌄tic Four remake - we've seen it all before. When the studio wins, it usually means a potentially g💎reat movie is ruined, but not always...
Here's 40 movies that were actually made better thanks to studio interference. Whether it was the✨ studio pushing for the perfect casting (Fight Club), or making sure that a rewrite was done by the right person (Dredd), we have the studios to thank for these great movies.
1. Fight Club (1999)
The Studio Interference: For a start, it was the studio that sou♒ght out Pitt and bagged him for the film. Meanwhile, a hyper-violent scene in which the narrator beats another club member to a pulp out of jealousy was re-cut to focus more on the narrator’s face. ꩲThe result is arguably more unsettling than was what scripted.
If They Hadn’t Stepped In: We’d have a far mor༒e graphical🍸ly violent, but arguably less disturbing scene.
2. Tremors (1990)
The Studio Interference: A rare example of studio casting requests actually going right, this one. Universal requested that Michael Gross (from Family Ties) be drafted in to play Burt Gummer in Tremors, a prospect that ma♌de the production crew uneasy. When Gummer auditioned though, he nailed the role.
If They Hadn’t Stepped In: Gummer wouldn’t have ever been considered for the role, which would’ve been a tra🉐vesty given how aweso▨me he is in the film. Hurrah to Universal.
3. Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Studio Interference: Executives stepped in🥃 when the original Wizard of Oz script depicted the land of Oz as a real pla♚ce visited by Dorothy. Believing that audiences were too smart to buy Oz as a real Earth-bound location, they suggested the ending be changed so that Dorothy wakes up from a horrible dream.
If They Hadn’t Stepped In: If the original sꦑcript had been shot, the film still would have been a masterpiece, but the addition of the dream angle affords the film an even more queasy and fantastical feeling.
7. The Butterfly Effect (2004)
The Studio Interference: Studio execs stepped in to prevent directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber using their original ending𒆙 on this time-hopping thriller, instead tacking on something a little more hopeful and in keeping with the rest of the film.
If They Hadn’t Stepped In: Bress and Gruber’s origin🗹al ending – which you can see on their director&r♔squo;s cut – sees hero Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) time-jumping back into his mother’s womb. Though we love the concept, there’s no doubt the theatrical ending is more audience-pleasing.
