The trailer for the film Reign of Fire had a bunch of footage that wasn’t in the film. It made it seem like it was going to be a sort of Godzilla with dragons. Instead it was a post-apocalyptic movie (with dragons).
I always kind of wondered if the mislead was on purpose, or if they’d planned to have a lot more dragons sacking cities and dogfighting military jets, but for whatever reason bailed on that bit late in the process.
(I think some TV prints might have included it - I have a pretty vivid memory of seeing it as a kid, and imdb agrees, but we all know how reliable memory is, and imdb can be fooled.)
“‘Do you like what you doth see…?’ said the voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within.”
Thanks for that, Kamino Neko. But this is going to drive me nuts: I know I read, fairly recently, that an abandoned idea for the movie was having Eddie go into Toontown disguised as a Toon.
Anyone else see this information anywhere? (It’s not impossible that I dreamed it as I often have very detailed dreams, but I still think I really did read it, somewhere…)
With 3D animated films, probably they do some test animations, to see how they like the look of the characters, certain special effects, and the background, entirely divorced from the script. This also makes it perfect content for a trailer, since it provides content that looks good, captures the feel of the movie, but doesn’t spoil anything.
It’s a lot harder to get the actors, costumes, and sets all together, and have everyone act out some random stuff while you fiddle with the specifics, before starting to shoot real scenes. But if it’s just an animator, tinkering with stuff on his computer, it’s a lot more reasonable to keep adjusting before getting down to work. Live-action films are basically stuck with whatever happened to be in place on the day of filming.
This was probably just done for humor, but I stopped reading the synopses on the back of books. They always give you a misleading idea of what’s in the book.