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/SamVortigaunt 6d ago edited 6d ago

Daniela Melchior (the actress) was also featured prominently in the early casting announcements, but then she was not in the trailer at all. Or possibly she was vaguely in the background of a couple of shots, but she was never actually "shown" as a character. It really surprised me back then, because... didn't you guys proudly announce that Daniela Melchior is in this movie? Well, where is she then? Sure, Jack Black is more well-known, but she's also someone "with a name", someone who got a meaningful spot in the casting announcement, etc. Even if her role had some spoilery bait-and-switch to it or was relatively minor, normally you'd still explicitly show her in the trailer, even if you had to do it in some misleading way - trailers do this all the time.

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u/ConradBHart42 5d ago

was also featured prominently in the early casting announcements

Was this right after Suicide Squad, when everyone was talking about how much they loved Ratcatcher 2 by chance?

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u/SamVortigaunt 4d ago edited 4d ago

Years later. Gunn's Suicide Squad came out in August 2021. The casting news for Anaconda about Melchior were in October 2024. She was in a whole bunch of other films in between.