Comments on: Ponderables #4

By: Roy Sallows

Roy Sallows — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:06:43 +0000

Does TV count? The trailer to M*A*S*H, the Series, features what was to have been a scene… and characters… that never made it into the series. When the nurses are running up to the helipad, the brunette was intended to be a continuing character. Poor kid. With residuals, she’d probably have paid off a couple houses by now.

By: Erich

Erich — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:26:42 +0000

I remember a scene from the trailer for “Real Genius,” which showed Val Kilmer relaxing in a deck chair suspended from numerous balloons, hanging in mid-air outside a professor’s window. The professor asks “What are you doing?” Kilmer responds “Floating, sir.” Didn’t make it into the movie.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:14:15 +0000

Despite prominent usage in TV ads and on the website, Daveigh Chase never says “Everyone will suffer.” in The Ring. Doesn’t even show up in the deleted scenes.

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:22:28 +0000

The trailer for “The Negotiator” ended with a scene of Sam Jackson and Kevin Spacey in a small, re-lit area, telling the cops over the walkie-talkie “Now you’re going to have to deal with both of us.”

Not only was this scene nowhere in the movie, but it spoiled a twist in the last half hour or so (granted, it wasn’t the movie’s final twist). So in this instance, they shot an extra scene just to spoil the commercial-viewing public.

As for a less annoying example, I remember the commercials for “The Santa Clause” included scenes that weren’t in the movie.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:54:28 +0000

There’s a bit in the trailer for *Sixth Sense* where Bruce Willis is comforting the kid by the stairs in the school … he has some words that don’t make it into the film. Can’t remember them exactly – something about how he’s going to make things all right again. I could be misremembering this, though.

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:00:26 +0000

I remember being really creeped out by a scene that took place in Tim Robbin’s character’s bedroom in the “Jacob’s Ladder” preview that wasn’t in the movie…It was so long ago that I can’t recall the exact events in the trailer, but I remember feeling disappointed that it wasn’t in the finished product.

By: Alex Scott

Alex Scott — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:30:51 +0000

Virtually everything in the Highlander: Endgame trailers. They explicitly promised something different than the mundane, extended-TV-episode movie we got.

Going into video games, all the previews prior to the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 presented series star Solid Snake as its hero–then when the game came out, it turned out Snake was only playable for about an hour, and the REAL star of the game was a blonde rookie named Raiden. Much of the footage shown before MGS2’s release was actually taken from scenes in Raiden’s portion of the game, just with Snake in Raiden’s place. The developers actually WANTED to pull the old switcheroo on you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:06:12 +0000

So many! Leaping to mind are Steve Martin in a polar bear suit in L.A. Story. Also, Eowyn around the corner from an orc beneath Helm’s Deep.

By: Steve Pheley

Steve Pheley — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:11:31 +0000

I remember the commercials for Dangerous Minds showing a pool hall scene that wasn’t in the finished movie.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:26:27 +0000

Good point about the red suit (and merchandise), I missed that.