Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.
Quotes about cliffhanger (4 Quotes)
She's leaving because she originally only had a year contract. But she was such an amazing addition to the potty-mouthed, frat-house brotherhood mentality on the show. It's a huge cliffhanger, one of the best ever. It's pretty fantastical how they shot it.
And the body count will grow. The Season 2 cliffhanger, ... sets it up so that all of us could conceivably die.
People love the cliffhanger endings to chapters, ... I get a lot of comments that I've changed people's lives, how they've never read and now they have, how they were depressed and now they have a passion.