Woods mentioned Cronenberg had written a number of endings for “Videodrome,” and was nonetheless uncertain as to how the movie ought to finish, even throughout manufacturing. The 1997 Faber & Faber e-book “Cronenberg on Cronenberg” reveals an ending whereby Max, Nicki, and Brian O’Blivion’s daughter Bianca (Sonja Smits) seem contained in the Videodrome set, sprout new units of genitals from their midsections, and have an orgy with them. That ending wasn’t clicking, although, and Woods talked in regards to the new ending, saying:
“I liked working with David and so forth, and it was a prescient film because it turned out, however on the time he provided me that film, we solely had 70 pages of the script! I actually known as David up and mentioned ‘what do you consider the ending?’ and he mentioned ‘I am not loopy about it.’ I mentioned ‘I’ve obtained some concepts,’ and he mentioned ‘come on up, we’ll shoot some extra.’ So I flew as much as Toronto to shoot one other ending. We shot three endings. I did not even inform my agent!”
The ultimate ending of “Videodrome” was fairly bleak. Warning: spoilers comply with.
Max had been employed by a shadowy group to commit unusual, supernatural assassinations, and a gun had change into organically fused along with his hand. After committing his murders, Max fled to a derelict ship whereby a TV sits glowing. Nicki seems on the display screen and tells him to shed his outdated flesh and reward the New Flesh. This requires the taking of his personal life. Which he does. Woods mentioned:
“I feel the ultimate ending of ‘Videodrome’ was my concept, that it was a self-fulfilling prophecy that he’d simply explode, or implode basically. And he mentioned ‘yeah, I feel that is what we’re making an attempt to say.'”
Cronenberg discovered the ending organically along with his actor.
