Anaconda, recently released in theaters, features a post-credits scene that reveals the fate of one of the film’s core characters. The remake also includes a mid-credits scene that ties it to the original 1997 film.
The film follows a group of friends, dissatisfied with the current trajectory of their lives, who travel to the Amazon rainforest to remake the 1997 movie. Tom Gormican directed the film from his and Kevin Etten’s screenplay. Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Thandiwe Newton, Steve Zahn, and Daniela Melchior make up the main cast.
Anaconda’s mid-credits scene at the end brings back original franchise star
Anaconda’s mid-credits scene features a montage showing the fates of the film’s characters. The scene reveals that Ice Cube, one of the original film’s stars, who saved the main characters from the anaconda and went to rescue the other original stars — Jennifer Lopez and Eric Stoltz — from the creature, survived. While Stoltz’s fate is left unanswered, Lopez’s survival is confirmed, and she later appears in the film’s final scene.
Lopez visits Doug at his home and informs him that she liked the low-budget version of the film he made. She then offers him the opportunity to direct another Anaconda film that she is doing, causing Doug to faint.
Meanwhile, the post-credits scene reveals that Carlos, the snake handler hired by Griff and Doug for their film and believed to be killed by the anaconda in the first half, is alive.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Gormican revealed that Lopez’s cameo was “a product of reshoots.” He added that they tried to include Lopez in principal photography, but couldn’t “coordinate” schedules. “We had always wanted a version of her to come in. And we talked about it and talked about it and talked about it. I was finally able to shoot her cameo a month ago on November 17. It was the very last thing we did,” he further stated.
Gormican continued, “I was finishing up my final mix when I went to shoot it, and I dropped it into this [mid-credit] sequence that I was having built to accommodate it. I never thought it was going to ultimately materialize, but it did, and we put it together.” The director further noted that although Lopez’s cameo’s inclusion “happened very, very late in the game,” the idea for it was conceived long ago.
