What Plans? said:
xhonzi said:
I wish the "broken moon rains down on metropolis" stuff wouldn't have been cut. That sounded rad. I guess the timing of 9/11 sort of killed it.
That stuff wasn't cut... there's a scene where he stops the machine a few years after visiting the NY Library in which the moon is raining down in pieces and the city is totally destroyed and in flames. It's an awesome scene!
EDIT: I found this short clip from that scene on YouTube. The quality sucks, but it shows the moon cracking.
I should have said, "The end of that scene was cut." I think there's an animatic or something on the DVD that shows how the actual destruction scene would have gone.
wiki says:
A scene that was scripted, but abandoned as it was considered inappropriate in light of the then recent events of September 11, 2001, was to have shown sections of the shattered moon crashing into the futuristic skyscrapers of 2037 New York City. This led to a 3 month delay of the film's theatrical release.