Since many of you didn't see the film, or if you have, most of you have purged the memory of that ordeal from your minds, I'll describe the original opening. Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) and Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges) are shown chasing after a heavyset creature, known as a Deado. Both, Roy and Nick, fire their weapons at the ghoul. A car comes tumbling right over Nick. While this is shown, Nick provides a voiceover explaining that he is having a bad day. When the scene concludes we are transported back four days to when Nick was part of the living. The two alternate openings start much differently. Both take place in a fish store, with Roy attempting to apprehend another Deado, but the outcomes are slightly different outcomes. Keep in mind, both scenes features unfinished visual effects.
Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline the 3D supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. as two cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer (Bridges) has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D. tracking monstrous spirits who are cleverly disguised as ordinary people. His mission? To arrest and bring to justice a special brand of criminals trying to escape final judgment by hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth. Once the wise-cracking Roy is assigned former rising-star detective Nick Walker (Reynolds) as his junior officer, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, two of R.I.P.D.’s finest must miraculously restore the cosmic balance...or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.
R.I.P.D. is directed by Robert Schwentke (Red) and produced by Neal H. Moritz (Fast & Furious series, I Am Legend), Mike Richardson (Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army) and Michael Fottrell (Live Free or Die Hard).
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