the cutting room floor can be a
surprisingly expensive place welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
most expensive deleted scenes before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most expensive sequences to be
removed from their respective films and
basing our choices on a mix of the
actual cost and how interesting the
story behind the decision is but that
means we’re excluding material lost – to
reshoots
what will you number 10
dance sequence ghostbusters I would like
to see you dance this controversial
reboot of the beloved 80s classic had a
bumpy production to say the least
including one hugely expensive scene
that was cut from the film in the
sequence Chris Hemsworth’s Kevin under
the control of the film’s main fatty
leads a dance number set to the Bee Gees
you should be dancing despite a budget
in the seven-figure range test audiences
were mixed on the lavish sequence so it
was cut a move director Paul Feig called
the biggest decision of his life the
sequence was used in part for the film’s
closing credits so at least it wasn’t a
total loss
number 9 tree attack the Brothers Grimm
Terry Gilliam is no stranger to setbacks
keeping his films from greatness or from
being made it all for that matter well
it may not be his most notable setback
the director did admit to cutting the
most expensive scene from his 2005
fantasy adventure the scene had the
titular brothers attacked by trees but
Gilliam’s fellow Monty Python alum Terry
Jones suggested that the scene created
pacing problems prompting the director
to give the sequence the ax with the
Terry’s shared history and safe to
assume this was the right call but you
can still see the scene on the DVD
extras and decide for yourself
number eight tales of the black
freighter watchman when it came to
adapting Alan Morin and Dave Gibbons
bleak comic director Zack Snyder pulled
out all the stops before the film hit
theaters however one crucial element was
removed an interstitial story ripped
from the pages of a pirate comic book
being read by a minor character at a
newsstand in Snyder’s vision these
segments would have been animated and
starred the voice of Gerard Butler
however the sequences would have put the
film’s runtime past the three-hour mark
in 2009 a three-hour comic-book
adaptation was unheard of and the scenes
were instead released as a standalone
DVD how had I reached this appalling
position with love only love as my guide
number 7 theater massacre gangster squad
all towns under water and you’re
grabbing a bucket when you should grab a
bathing suit this violent tale of la
police detectives going outside the law
to combat gangland Boston Mickey Cohen
didn’t pull many punches when it came to
graphic violence but the producers still
knew where to draw a line the film
originally included a major sequence in
which Cohen’s enforcers Massacre a
theater full of moviegoers but in the
wake of the 2012 Aurora theater shooting
this scene was scrapped and a whole new
ending was needed for the film
this setback cost the studio several
million dollars and forced the film to
be pushed back until the following year
further impacting its box office take
two things you can’t take back on this
job kid
Bullock said he had done and we’re
getting a mop
number six pie fight dr. Strangelove not
many films end with the destruction of
all mankind but this one does
however the stanley cooper classic
almost had a much different finale
originally a massive pie fight was meant
to erupt between American and Russian
delegates inside the war room with
president muff Li and the Russian
ambassador losing their minds in the
process test audiences weren’t crazy
about the scene and the then recent
assassination of JFK didn’t help so
Cooper could adapt levels of some
dialogue how can you stand by when our
president something and stand attend no
no it’s impossible to know how expensive
the scene was but with that many pies
and actors it couldn’t have been cheap
[Applause]
number five half of the original runtime
Cleopatra nothing like this is coming to
Rome since Romans this infamous film
from the Golden Age of Hollywood is
often used as the poster child for
bloated absurdly expensive Hollywood
spectacles and with good reason despite
earning the highest box office gross of
the year the film actually lost money
thanks to the massive and massively
expensive sets props and costumes but
the fact that half the movie was cut
accounts for a big chunk of the film’s
gargantuan price tag director Joseph L
mankiewicz his original cut was six
hours long we can only imagine the price
tag attached to the three hours of
unused footage we’ll sail at once number
four
Clark visits Krypton Superman Returns
where’d you go to Krypton Bryan Singer’s
lavish tribute to the Christopher Reeve
era of Superman films began with the Man
of Steel returning to Earth after paying
a visit to the remains of his home world
of Krypton while his visit to Krypton
has only spoken of in the finished
product the film was intended to begin
by showing Clark’s visit to his
destroyed home world
studio executives hated the entirely
silent sequence and ordered it cut
despite allegedly costing over 10
million dollars a price tag which if
accurate makes it the most expensive
single deleted scene of all time
even if it isn’t the most interesting
number three
Octopussy The Goonies the ending of this
1980s classic and it’s reference to an
octopus is something the left viewers
confused for decades despite data’s
comment that the octopus was really
scary in the film’s closing scene the
theatrical cut of the film contained it
no such creature it wasn’t until years
later that fans learned the origins of
the line a deleted sequence in which the
gang are indeed attacked by an octopus
oddly the scene was riad ‘add to certain
TV edits which in a pre-internet world
only added to the confusion there’s no
official word on how much the sequence
cost but octopi don’t come cheap
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number two rogue scenes x-men Days of
Future past I’m sorry this x-men outing
had no shortage of characters taking
place across two eras and incorporating
characters from both x-men first class
and the earlier Bryan Singer films
however singer found his initial version
of the film that was too crammed full of
faces and names and elected to remove
most of the scenes featuring Anna
Paquin’s rogue who was meant to play an
important role in the third act most
Paquin scenes ended up being cut and
replaced by reshoots most likely costing
the studio a pretty penny Paquin scenes
however were later reintegrated into the
film for a special rogue cut
number one the jitterbug dance The
Wizard of Oz in order to capture Dorothy
and her friends the Wicked Witch of the
West
unleashed numerous nasties including the
flying monkeys
however the Wicked Witch was meant to
also deploy a creature called the
jitterbug which would have forced them
to dance the sequence was planned for
Hearst and shot at a cost of 80 thousand
dollars or around 1.5 million in today’s
money despite the cost of the scene
added little and was cut for fear it
would date the film by referencing the
venn popular dance today the only
surviving footage of the sequence is a
grainy home movie shot by composer
Harold Bartlett do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
surprisingly expensive place welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
most expensive deleted scenes before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most expensive sequences to be
removed from their respective films and
basing our choices on a mix of the
actual cost and how interesting the
story behind the decision is but that
means we’re excluding material lost – to
reshoots
what will you number 10
dance sequence ghostbusters I would like
to see you dance this controversial
reboot of the beloved 80s classic had a
bumpy production to say the least
including one hugely expensive scene
that was cut from the film in the
sequence Chris Hemsworth’s Kevin under
the control of the film’s main fatty
leads a dance number set to the Bee Gees
you should be dancing despite a budget
in the seven-figure range test audiences
were mixed on the lavish sequence so it
was cut a move director Paul Feig called
the biggest decision of his life the
sequence was used in part for the film’s
closing credits so at least it wasn’t a
total loss
number 9 tree attack the Brothers Grimm
Terry Gilliam is no stranger to setbacks
keeping his films from greatness or from
being made it all for that matter well
it may not be his most notable setback
the director did admit to cutting the
most expensive scene from his 2005
fantasy adventure the scene had the
titular brothers attacked by trees but
Gilliam’s fellow Monty Python alum Terry
Jones suggested that the scene created
pacing problems prompting the director
to give the sequence the ax with the
Terry’s shared history and safe to
assume this was the right call but you
can still see the scene on the DVD
extras and decide for yourself
number eight tales of the black
freighter watchman when it came to
adapting Alan Morin and Dave Gibbons
bleak comic director Zack Snyder pulled
out all the stops before the film hit
theaters however one crucial element was
removed an interstitial story ripped
from the pages of a pirate comic book
being read by a minor character at a
newsstand in Snyder’s vision these
segments would have been animated and
starred the voice of Gerard Butler
however the sequences would have put the
film’s runtime past the three-hour mark
in 2009 a three-hour comic-book
adaptation was unheard of and the scenes
were instead released as a standalone
DVD how had I reached this appalling
position with love only love as my guide
number 7 theater massacre gangster squad
all towns under water and you’re
grabbing a bucket when you should grab a
bathing suit this violent tale of la
police detectives going outside the law
to combat gangland Boston Mickey Cohen
didn’t pull many punches when it came to
graphic violence but the producers still
knew where to draw a line the film
originally included a major sequence in
which Cohen’s enforcers Massacre a
theater full of moviegoers but in the
wake of the 2012 Aurora theater shooting
this scene was scrapped and a whole new
ending was needed for the film
this setback cost the studio several
million dollars and forced the film to
be pushed back until the following year
further impacting its box office take
two things you can’t take back on this
job kid
Bullock said he had done and we’re
getting a mop
number six pie fight dr. Strangelove not
many films end with the destruction of
all mankind but this one does
however the stanley cooper classic
almost had a much different finale
originally a massive pie fight was meant
to erupt between American and Russian
delegates inside the war room with
president muff Li and the Russian
ambassador losing their minds in the
process test audiences weren’t crazy
about the scene and the then recent
assassination of JFK didn’t help so
Cooper could adapt levels of some
dialogue how can you stand by when our
president something and stand attend no
no it’s impossible to know how expensive
the scene was but with that many pies
and actors it couldn’t have been cheap
[Applause]
number five half of the original runtime
Cleopatra nothing like this is coming to
Rome since Romans this infamous film
from the Golden Age of Hollywood is
often used as the poster child for
bloated absurdly expensive Hollywood
spectacles and with good reason despite
earning the highest box office gross of
the year the film actually lost money
thanks to the massive and massively
expensive sets props and costumes but
the fact that half the movie was cut
accounts for a big chunk of the film’s
gargantuan price tag director Joseph L
mankiewicz his original cut was six
hours long we can only imagine the price
tag attached to the three hours of
unused footage we’ll sail at once number
four
Clark visits Krypton Superman Returns
where’d you go to Krypton Bryan Singer’s
lavish tribute to the Christopher Reeve
era of Superman films began with the Man
of Steel returning to Earth after paying
a visit to the remains of his home world
of Krypton while his visit to Krypton
has only spoken of in the finished
product the film was intended to begin
by showing Clark’s visit to his
destroyed home world
studio executives hated the entirely
silent sequence and ordered it cut
despite allegedly costing over 10
million dollars a price tag which if
accurate makes it the most expensive
single deleted scene of all time
even if it isn’t the most interesting
number three
Octopussy The Goonies the ending of this
1980s classic and it’s reference to an
octopus is something the left viewers
confused for decades despite data’s
comment that the octopus was really
scary in the film’s closing scene the
theatrical cut of the film contained it
no such creature it wasn’t until years
later that fans learned the origins of
the line a deleted sequence in which the
gang are indeed attacked by an octopus
oddly the scene was riad ‘add to certain
TV edits which in a pre-internet world
only added to the confusion there’s no
official word on how much the sequence
cost but octopi don’t come cheap
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
number two rogue scenes x-men Days of
Future past I’m sorry this x-men outing
had no shortage of characters taking
place across two eras and incorporating
characters from both x-men first class
and the earlier Bryan Singer films
however singer found his initial version
of the film that was too crammed full of
faces and names and elected to remove
most of the scenes featuring Anna
Paquin’s rogue who was meant to play an
important role in the third act most
Paquin scenes ended up being cut and
replaced by reshoots most likely costing
the studio a pretty penny Paquin scenes
however were later reintegrated into the
film for a special rogue cut
number one the jitterbug dance The
Wizard of Oz in order to capture Dorothy
and her friends the Wicked Witch of the
West
unleashed numerous nasties including the
flying monkeys
however the Wicked Witch was meant to
also deploy a creature called the
jitterbug which would have forced them
to dance the sequence was planned for
Hearst and shot at a cost of 80 thousand
dollars or around 1.5 million in today’s
money despite the cost of the scene
added little and was cut for fear it
would date the film by referencing the
venn popular dance today the only
surviving footage of the sequence is a
grainy home movie shot by composer
Harold Bartlett do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
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