The shelved third Sex and the City movie was set to kill off Carrie’s longtime love Mr. Big in a shocking twist.
It’s been revealed that the much-loved partner of Carrie, played by Chris Noth, was going to die of a heart attack in the shower in the third outing.
The shocking revelation emerged on the podcast Origins, helmed by journalist James Andrew Miller, in a series of episodes dedicated to the popular show and how it ended, along with discussing why plans for the final movie were scrapped.
The plot for the third instalment reportedly revolved around Big's death and how Carrie would cope, which is also believed to be part of why Kim Cattrall didn't want to part take in another SATC movie.
Miller, the podcast's creator said: "People close to Kim believe that the script for the movie didn't have a lot to offer the character of Samantha.
"They point to the fact that it calls for Mr Big to die, of a heart attack, in the shower, relatively early on in the film, making the remainder of the movie more about how Carrie recovers from Big's death than about the relationship between the four women."
Although several cast members were said to be devastated at the decision to cancel the film, Noth may not have been as keen as his co-stars.
Speaking about the first two movies, he told James, "I just hate the cornball s***... and I thought it was... sentimental and overly romantic."
However, the 64-year-old actor did admit that the third movie had a "superior script" to the first two.
In the podcast, the show's series writer and producer Michael Patrick King said the tension between Kim Cattrall and her co-stars stemmed from the show's inception, when Sarah Jessica Parker demanded higher pay.
"As the show progressed, the characters, everybody grew, it became a family. Kristin (Davis), Cynthia (Nixon) and Sarah Jessica became one group, and Kim never joined the triumvirate mentally," said King.
"Kim fought and said, 'I'm everyone's favourite'... I guess for Kim it didn't matter how much the raise became if there was never parity, but there never was going to be parity."
Parker told Miller she "negotiated in good faith" with Cattrall's team to make sure she'd be involved in the movie.
"I emailed her, I tried to reach out to her and say like, 'We want you part of this. You're an integral part, of course you are. I hope when you read this script you'll see the beauty, the joy, the heartbreak in it that I see, that we have seen,'" Parker said in the podcast.
"But I can't force her to see it, but we did negotiate through the process and ultimately the studio said, 'We can't meet those asks of hers, the economics don't make sense for us.' So then it's over, but that's not a character assassination, that's just the way business works."
Last year Parker officially confirmed that there will be no more Sex And The City movies.
