Get Out, Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning directorial debut, had a fairly happy ending, but an alternate conclusion gives Chris a much worse fate. In early 2017, Peele burst onto the scene as a filmmaker with Get Out, a racially-charged horror tale about Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young black man who heads to a remote country estate to meet his white girlfriend’s parents. Of course, what starts as just an awkward weekend quickly turns into a nightmare, as Chris finds himself the target of a terrifying scheme that lets rich old white people mentally stow away in the bodies of healthy black people.
Making things worse is the fact that the people being hijacked are relegated to a dark realm called The Sunken Place, in which they can perceive everything happening to their bodies, but can’t exert any control. That’s truly a fate worse than death, and thankfully, Chris managed to avoid it and escape from girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) and her family with his mind and body intact.
Get Out’s theatrical ending sees Chris succeed in killing off the Armitage family, finishing off Rose last after she pursues him onto the road. What looks to be a police car pulls up, but thankfully it’s just Chris’ friend Rod, who works for the TSA. The pair then drive away to an uncertain future. However, an alternate ending was filmed that left Chris in a pretty sad predicament.
Get Out’s Alternate Ending Is Much Darker
In the originally intended ending for Get Out, which can be seen in full above, Chris isn’t picked up by Rod at the end and driven to safety. Instead, he’s arrested by the police for the murders of the Armitage family, and taken to jail. Rod is then seen visiting Chris, seemingly trying to get enough information on what happened to convince the authorities that Chris’ killings were in self-defense. However, Chris seems resigned to the fact that he’s never getting out, and stresses to Rod that he’s okay, and that he stopped the Armitage’s operation. Chris is then sadly led back to his cell.
Get Out’s Ending Was Made Happier After Test Screenings
Get Out’s alternate ending, while much darker, was intended by Jordan Peele to reflect a realistic outcome to Chris’ scenario, and drive home how racially-biased the American justice system often is. However, after the film underwent test screenings, Peele changed his mind, and decided that both Chris and audiences deserved a happier ending. Peele did however choose to leave a small piece of the original conclusion intact, via the few seconds between when the police car with flashing lights shows up near Chris and the driver is shown to be Rod. That gave viewers a small taste of Chris’ original fate, briefly leading them to believe he was about to be arrested for murder.
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