HAVE you ever wanted to change the ending to one of your favourite films? Now's your chance to do so.

A nationwide competition is searching for Wirral's most inventive and creative film fans to take on Hollywood and come up with an alternate ending to a movie classic for a chance to win £2,000.

If you ever thought you could do a Scorsese, Lucas or Spielberg better, then this competition is for you.

Whether it's getting ET home, Bogart and Bergman at the airport or that twist in Sixth Sense, it is the ending that can truly make a movie and this is your chance to give it a rewrite.

All you need to do is put pen to paper and submit 750 words, either as prose or scripted dialogue. 

There are five categories to enter ...

  • Best comedy or rom-com
  • Best action or adventure 
  • Best fantasy, Sci-fi or horror
  • Best family or animation 
  • Best drama or thriller.

Entries will be judged by jury panel of three acclaimed industry experts.

They are Manchester Metropolitan University's senior Lecturer of Film Studies Andy Moor, Film & Theatre Critic Kevin Bourke and script writer Martin Paul Roche. 

Kevin Bourke said: "Every film has twists and turns right up to the end, that’s why we love them so much.

"Imagining a different twist than the one you see on screen is something everyone has done in the cinema.

"It's best to start with a film you really love and characters you know inside out - that will make it easier to imagine how else their story might have played out.

"After that, it really is limitless, these people are under your control and you can come up with a finale more explosive than anything Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese or Orson Welles could imagine!”

The closing date for entries is September 4. Details from www.cartridgesave.co.uk/thealties