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That's right, in the ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, Marty's world is heavy on the cynicism-- with corruption, boarded storefronts, and the inevitable threat of nuclear Holocaust.
Oh, and the MAGIC INGREDIENT that powers the time machine in the original spec is none other than good ol' American Coca Cola. Seriously.
Lifetime Gross: $210,609,762
Aiming to be more EDGY and DARK, the original plan for Toy Story was to make Woody a terrorizing doll. (Yikes!)
How edgy? Woody was to be a character who’ll stop at NOTHING to stay Andy's favorite - even if it involves murdering Buzz by tossing him out a window.
Lifetime Gross: $191,796,233
In Stallone's original draft, the fight that Rocky spends the entire movie preparing for, ends not in a satisfying loss because he tried his hardest and held his own…
…but in unemotional demise when he throws the fight on purpose and decides to get rich by opening a pet store instead.
Lifetime Gross: $117,235,147
Back when Spielberg held the reins on the Interstellar script, the crew comes across a Chinese base camp still roamed by Chinese Robots who beat them there by 50 years.
Unhappy with their visitors, the Chinese robots will stop at nothing to keep the Americans from stealing their research and reporting back to the states.
Lifetime Gross: $188,020,017
Initially aiming to attract a male audience, Paramount wanted to forgo the lovey-dovey romance and instead focus on fight scenes.
In this draft, Bella actually does something useful, and Edward has a Korean FBI-agent nemesis who knows karate.
And there is definitely NO “vampires play baseball!”
Lifetime Gross: $192,769,854
In Dan Aykroyd's early draft, the Ghost Smashers travel through space and time to fight ghosts.
The Marshmallow Man is only one of many monsters and doesn't appear until half-way through the film.
To combat the supernatural, the Ghostbusters wore SWAT-like uniforms and used wands instead of proton packs.
Lifetime Gross: $242,212,467
Before Chris Farley's untimely death, Dreamworks started work on Shrek with every intention of casting Farley as its lead voice-actor in a bawdy, edgy animated comedy.
In the orginal script, Shrek is a teenager who doesn't want to join the family business and instead dreams of becoming a knight.
Lifetime Gross: $267,655,011
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