Remember Manchester by the Sea's sweetly melancholy ending on the fishing boat? It turns out that was a last-minute fudge - according to Matt Damon, who was one of the film's producers, there was a much more "epic" ending to the original script.

Damon said on The Bill Simmons Podcast that the radically different ending summed up what "the whole movie's kind of about", but that it had to be pulled when the filmmakers ran out of cash.

"They were all on this boat and they were whale watching," Damon explained. "It’s this incredible moment of joy and you see this family all together and then these whales start breaching out of the water."

That would've been subject to hiring a drone, and hoping the whales fancied it on the big day - but it was possible.

"It was this epic [scene], so as the camera pulls back as this family is experiencing this incredible joy—and you know it’s about to go horribly wrong for them—the camera’s pulling up, up, up and it reveals all of these other boats all around it, and it’s all of these other families watching these whales and it’s like this is one little story in this sea of stories.

"It was epic and it was beautiful and it tied the whole thing together, and we ran out of money. It was like, 'fuck'."

Frustrating. How much is a drone anyway? Surely Matt Damon knows someone in Los Angeles who's got a drone kicking about in the shed.