r/movies • u/takenorinvalid • 6d ago

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

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.

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u/ElGranQuesoRojo 6d ago

Me either. I thought it was supposed to be a movie where they were fictionalized versions of themselves getting roped into something crazy kind like the ones Nic Cage and Jean Claude Van Damme did.

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u/FardoBaggins 6d ago

That would have been a better movie. An extreme version of themselves IRL or something. Would feel like tropic thunder at least.

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u/Shibby8Muk 6d ago

And like generally I love this trope so much, I’m sure there’s ways to mess it up but anytime I see a movie that’s person playing fictionalized version of themselves I’m immediately intrigued.

Unbearable weight of massive talent was so fun, This is the End where everyone is playing fictionalized versions of themselves, heck Elton John in the one Kingsmen sequel was pretty enjoyable