Used to be one of the biggest selling points for movies (before the internet gave you all manner of information about the film as it was being made) was the movie poster.  I’ve commented before on how I first learned of Escape From New York thanks to its beautiful, iconic poster…

But like all things in life, the “perfect” image in a movie poster often arrived after considerable work and the discarding of ideas.  Some of those early poster ideas, it turns out, were really terrible given the iconic images we eventually got.

Cracked.com offers a delightful list of 9 “Baffling” first drafts of movie posters, and each and every one of them certainly fits the bill:

http://www.cracked.com/article_22046_9-baffling-first-drafts-classic-movie-posters.html

Alas, there is no “baffling” first draft of Escape From New York presented within this list, but easily my favorite “what the hell were they thinking” first poster draft has to go to:

…Good God…

If you liked that, you need to check out the rest!