Just for fun, we often wonder how a movie would have changed if the screenwriter had just had a different breakfast when the final pages of the script were written. What if an entirely new plot twist,
or a radical change in the behavior of a prominent character happens?
To help feed this fantasy, you're invited to send us a revised ending to one of your favorite films. Just a short paragraph describing the new events that take the movie to the credits. If it's interesting, or funny,
and not too profane, we will publish your new film finale on these pages.
Submit your finishing synopsis in an e-mail to info@screenplaywire.com.
Be sure to include your name, return e-mail address, and the name of the film you are changing (try not to choose one so obscure we don't even know the original ending) and the date it was released.
Here is an example of what we mean:
Independence Day (1997)
ALIENS DON'T DO WINDOWS
Just when Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith try to insert the computer virus into the alien mother ship, they find out that the aliens don't have Windows 95 installed. They never downloaded the upgrade, and Microsoft's
tech support sucks farther away than Neptune.
Goldblum has to reboot and try a work around, but by then they are discovered and captured. The A-bomb doesn't destroy the ship, the shields don't go down, and
the Earth's attacks are repulsed.
Cut to Bill Pullman and Robert Loggia in dog collars on leashes held by the Imperial Gorgon of the aliens, who is eating human soup out of an upside down Liberty Bell.
As the closing credits roll, Randy Quaid enters (also wearing a dog collar and leash, and holding a stack of 4 pizza boxes) shouting, "I'm baaaack!!"
Your New Ending Here
