Sure, there’s an alternate ending to “The Final of Us,” a minimum of the sport model. Shortly after the sport premiered a 12 months in the past, Naughty Canine and Neil Druckmann launched a behind-the-scenes have a look at how the ultimate chapter of the sport (the scene within the hospital) was made, exhibiting the efficiency seize used for the sport, highlighting the unbelievable work finished by Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker earlier than making the bounce to the live-action adaptation.

However then, they revealed a shock alternate model of that very same hospital scene. Introducing the scene, Druckmann reveals how he hid the alternate scene from Troy Baker, solely giving him notes about his efficiency, however telling him simply to play out your complete scene with out breaking. Seems, he had one thing else deliberate for the scene, which solely Marlene’s actor, Merle Dandridge, knew about.

The scene has Marlene and Joel arguing over Ellie’s destiny, pointing weapons at one another. On this model, Dandridge simply breaks into music like she was a part of “Les Misérables,” singing traces like “she’ll be raped and murdered” with extra gravitas than Hugh Jackman or Anne Hathaway. Then Troy Baker responds, improvising his personal music model of the dialogue, and the 2 have a incredible musical duet.

That is the type of alternate ending I am all about. Overlook easy adjustments like a personality making it out alive or Invoice Paxton and Suzy Amis’ characters in “Titanic” making out; benefit from your actors’ unbelievable singing voices and document impromptu musical alternate endings to your tales. What if the ultimate duel between Ben and Luke in “The Final Jedi” was a musical quantity? What if the reveal of the killer in “Knives Out” was finished by means of music? We should know.