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* [[What Could Have Been]]: The film's original script was a ''lot'' darker and more depressing than what was eventually used. The script did not turn into a modern-day fairy tale until it was bought by Disney and given an extensive rewrite.

** It began life not as a romantic comedy, but as a cautionary drama about drug addiction and prostitution called ''$3,000''.

** In the original script Vivian was a cocaine addict, and she spends her entire week with Edward going through withdrawals because he won't let her buy drugs while she's with him. Some of this ''did'' make it into the final script; remember Vivian's nervousness and tendency to fidget? Those are telltale signs of cocaine use. And the bathroom scene where Edward thinks she's doing cocaine but she's just using dental floss? In the original script she really ''was'' doing coke.

** And speaking of drugs, Vivian's friend Kit was a full-blown junkie who was probably going to die from her drug problems.

** The film didn't end with Edward giving Vivian a rose and driving off into the sunset with her, it ended with Edward giving her an envelope full of the money he promised her and driving out of Vivian's life forever (while she screams and cries and tells him she hates him - because she fell in love with him and he's abandoning her back to a life of prostitution).

** Ironically, none of the three writers who reworked J.F. Lawton's original script received screen credit.