The Original Ending to Birdman

“How did we get here?”

Birdman had a thought provoking ending, but it was not always intended to be this way. Co-Writer Alex Dinelaris, opened up about the film’s original ending for Birdman shortly after its win. Here is the direct quote,

“Then the camera prowled like it did the whole film, went back stage through the halls we’ve seen the whole time and we’d get to the dressing room where literally Johnny Depp would be sitting looking in the mirror and putting on his Riggan Thomson wig and then the poster of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′ would be in the back. In Jack Sparrow’s voice [it would say], ‘What the f*** are we doing here, mate?’ It was going to be the satire of the endless loop of that.”

As artistic and unique as the ending was, I would of been extremely fond of this ending as well. Maybe even more so…