Following a pretty savage internet reaction to the Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer—with a lot of discourse surrounding Sonic’s eerie human teeth—director Jeff Fowler announced that the character would undergo a redesign and the film’s release would be pushed back to 2020. “Taking a little more time to make Sonic just right,” Fowler tweeted.
This makeover isn’t uncommon in Hollywood, where the version of a movie that gets released ends up being drastically different from what was originally filmed. Here are just a few of the movies that required an extensive makeover before making it out of the cutting room. Turns out, even superheroes don’t always get it right the first time.