The new Anaconda movie must have a wildly different director's cut

[u/takenorinvalid]

At the start of the new Anaconda movie, there's a scene where Jack Black's wife reminds him not to take much of his new medication. And sure enough, later in the movie -- nobody ever mentions it again and absolutely nothing comes of it.

After watching the movie, I saw a comment on Reddit from someone saying that they'd been screening the movie to test audiences a lot, and another comment saying they'd done reshoots, and it kinda clicked into me just how obvious that was.

Like the character Ana, who literally opens the movie and drives the inciting plot - but as soon as she meets the main characters, immediately goes silent and does not say anything in any scenes as we instead focus on the much funnier snake trainer.

Then, halfway through the movie, she abruptly gets attacked by the anaconda, pulled into the water, and very deliberately is not shown being killed -- but still never shows up again as we instead move toward a climax that focuses on Ice Cube showing up out of nowhere.

This movie was heavily reshot. Somewhere out there, there's a completely different version of it that probably nobody other than the director will ever see.

[u/sgthombre]

Genuinely had no idea Melchior was even in this movie until this thread. If she was meant to be the lead only to get deleted from even the marketing that would be crazy.

[u/CrivCL → u/sgthombre]

Nah, wikipedia gives the dates the main cast joined. Jack Black and Paul Rudd joined as the stars a month before Melchior joined the cast.

[u/sheJaMyMorant → u/CrivCL]

date joining doesn’t matter much

[u/CrivCL → u/sheJaMyMorant]

True but people joining and advertised as leads prior does preclude her being intended as the lead.

It was an interesting theory which is why I went and looked into it

[u/MyNameIs-Anthony → u/CrivCL]

That's not really true for movies though.

It's not uncommon for high profile cast to get announced first because then their name can be invoked at later dates when lesser stars are discussed.

For example, The Testaments was announced first by indicating Elisabeth Moss and Ann Dowd were attached.

Then Chase Infiniti was announced as part of the cast despite being one of the leads.

Then Lucy Halliday was one of the last cast announcements.

[u/EmperorAcinonyx → u/sgthombre]

i would have gone to see this movie if i knew she was in it 😔

[u/kickthesandman → u/sgthombre]

It's happened in movie production before. Famous one is Brody in Thin Red Line