QI heard the they re-filmed the ending to this movie. Is that true? Was it because the "twist" was leaked on the internet after the script was stolen?
AYes, they did re-film the ending, but if you read the original script, you will see it has the same twist as the final film. So no, changes were not made because the twist was leaked. It looks on the face of it like the ending change was a response to bad test screening results.
QDid Lucius live or die at the end of the story?
ANeither the movie nor the script provides a definitive answer to that question. The best that can be assumed is that he was still alive when Ivy returned from the towns with medicine. Consider that Ivy has no trouble recognizing Lucius by his color when she approaches him on Resting Rock, as well as the night she sees him sitting on her front porch. However, when Lucius has been stabbed and is near death, she has trouble finding him when he is right at her feet, and she is distressed that he has no color. When she returns from the towns and joins the Elders who are caring for Lucius, she walks to him, takes his hand, and says "I'm back." If he was not alive at this point, her reaction would most likely have been one of distress, if she could even recognize his body at all.
QI don't get it. What's going on in the ending?
AIt is revealed tha the village was actually founded some time in the 1970s when Edward Walker, professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania approached other people he met at a grief counseling clinic after his father had been murdered in a violent crime (they were there because they also lost a loved one to violent crime). He asked them if they wished to join him in "an idea" he had. From this apparently grew "the village," a secluded town in the middle of a wildlife preserve (the "Walker" Wildlife Preserve) purchased with Edward Walker's dead father's fortune, a place where they would be protected from any aspect of the outside world... even airplanes.
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