Since Gizmo wasn’t originally intended to make it through the entire Gremlins movie, the crew had to get creative.
During a recent Q&A session with Entertainment Weekly, Gremlins director Joe Dante revealed that Gizmo was supposed to turn into Stripe, the leader of the evil batch of gremlins in the 1984 horror-comedy.
You can check out the rest of what Joe Dante had to say about Gremlins via Entertainment Weekly.
Gremlins was almost a completely different movie with Gizmo set as the villain.