The Alternate 'Bird Box' Ending Is So Much Darker
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The alternate ending to Bird Box has been revealed and if you thought it couldn't get much darker then you were wrong.
Bird Box was released over the festive season and Netlfix revealed that 45 million accounts watched the film on it's opening weekend.
However, the Netflix film was actually an adaptation of Josh Malerman's 2014 post-apocalyptic novel and if Netflix had stayed true to that ending you definitely wouldn't want to take your blindfold off.
Here are where the spoilers kick in.
At the end of the film Malorie, Girl, and Boy reach the sanctuary after a pretty rough journey down the river.
When they get to the sanctuary they are let inside where there are hundreds of people including Malorie's doctor, Dr Lapham.
It ends pretty hopeful and optimistic with kids playing full of laughter and birds everywhere. It is safe the say the book does not end in such an optimistic way.
Malerman's original story has Malorie and the kids make it to the sanctuary, but they find that the people there have all blinded themselves to stay safe. So Malorie and her children are still unsafe unless they blind themselves.
Director Susanne Bier explained to Polygon why she changed the ending. She said: "The movie is slightly more positive.
"The movie is, in many aspects, different from the book, but it's also very rooted in the book. The book also has a kind of positive ending and I would not have wanted to do an apocalyptic movie that didn't have a hopeful ending.
"In a way, pretty much everything I've done has had some sort of a hopeful ending. I'm not particularly interested for the audience to leave, from the cinema or their own screen, with a kind of completely bleak point of view. That's not really what I believe in."
After the film's release Sandra Bullock also explained that viewers almost got a glimpse at the creatures but it was cut from the final edit.
Bullock said: "It was snake-like, and I was like, 'I don't want to see it when it first happens. Just bring it into the room. We'll shoot the scene.' I turn and he's like this [growling at me.] It's making me laugh. It was just a long fat baby."
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