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Every film has a version that never made it to theaters. Somewhere between the first draft and opening night, a scene gets torn out, an ending gets flipped, or an entire act gets thrown in the trash because a test audience hated it. Most of the time nobody notices the difference. Every once in a while, though, the rewrite is the whole reason the movie survived at all.
Pretty Woman almost ended with a drug overdose and an empty stare
Before it was a romantic comedy, Pretty Woman was a much colder script called 3000, named after the amount of money Edward pays Vivian for a week of her time. According to Digital Spy, it was originally supposed to be called $3,000, which was referencing the amount of money Vivian got paid by Edward. The tone matched the title. 3000 was devoid of the latter’s charm and sensational appeal, tapping into a darker narrative that’s a norm on the fringes of society, with the overarching theme centered on the harsher, darker realities of sex work.
The ending was even bleaker than the setup. Julia Roberts confirmed this in a recent interview saying at the end of the original script, Richard’s character threw her character out of the car, threw the money on top of her and drove away and the credits rolled. Vivian’s friend Kit didn’t fare any better in that draft, and Vivian herself was written with blank and empty eyes staring out of a bus window…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-08-21 05:28:00
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