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Freeze it up, pal!

He cried.

The SLM producers saw the film the first time and said, well, you killed a star.

We don't have an ending.

And Billy said, yeah, we have an ending. Pankow takes over the girl and they

continue on.

And they wanted to see Peterson live.

They wanted us to shoot another ending.

Where, in fact, I had already been shot, but... I survived, miraculously, a

shotgun at point blank range to the face.

And in fact, I did film another ending, which is terrible, but it exists

where the two guys are alive, where Peterson isn't killed.

I remember the two endings, one with Chance dying and one with both of us

living. And I remember shooting the one where Chance and I are in some remote,

like, Canadian hut, lodge thing, you know, playing Pinochle or something. I

don't know what the hell we're doing. We're up there just hanging.

You know, you can't have a movie like that, and then all of a sudden, there

are sitting in bunk beds, bitter that they've been sent to the North Pole.

That would have been the Eddie Murphy version of To Live and Die in L .A. We

shot it.

We edited it.

We mixed it. We cut it onto the film. We made end credits with that whole snow

scene. Screened it one time. Billy said, get rid of that shit.

So we took it right out.

They begged me to use it. They said, the film will make a lot more money if we

don't kill this guy. The audience likes him.

And I said, I'm not sure of that.

Would they have made a lot more money with Psycho if Janet Leigh was only

wounded and in the cellar? I don't know.

I felt that what we had achieved was organic, that this guy was

tempting fate every step of the way, and a lot of my films have to do with the

mystery of fate, and it seemed to me right that at that point in the film he

would lose it.