Posted on 08/26/2010 9:32:22 AM PDT by EveningStar
Many popular films’ original cast did not include some of the actors and actresses well known for that role in the film today. Here are what movie posters would look like if they followed their original casting.
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Kevin Kline improves any movie, imho.
Is this thing on the level? Cindy “Shirley Feeney” Williams as Princess Leia?
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Brokeback Mountain....sounds like a documentary.
Fun!
They could could do this all the way back to the 1930’s. Studios and Producers often changed their mind on lead cast for one reason or another.
Not exactly. She auditioned for the role but lost out to Carrie Fisher.
(later changed to: Casablanca - with Humphrey Bogart)
Most of those castings would not have change the movie much at all.
Mel Brooks wanted John Wayne to play the Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles. Wayne turned it down saying the movie was too dirty for him to be in, but he’d be first in line to see it. I can hear The Duke saying, “the little bastard shot me right in the ass”.
Matrix would have been better with nearly anyone in Keanu Reeve’s role.
Kurt Russell, Nick Nolte, Christopher Walken, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Bill Murray and Perry King were all candidates for the role of Han Solo.
James Caan, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Burt Reynolds all turned down the role of Han Solo.
Gene Hackman improves any movie. Including what should have been an Oscar winning cameo appearance in Young Frankenstein.
I am SO glad they dumped Will Smith from the Matrix, he would of completely ruined it for me. And on a similar note Clooney would have probably made Hancock a better movie. Will Smith just annoys me.
Faceoff was so freaking stupid, it wouldn't have mattered what actors read the lines.
Who cares about Princess Leia.
Is that Toshiro Mifune as Obi-Wan??? Now that would have been a killer movie.
Nathan Fillion for Green Lantern!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs
Clooney could have done Hancock, and Edward Norton could have done American Psycho. But OJ as the Terminator and Robert Redford in the Graduate sound ridiculous.
Terri Nunn auditioned for Leia, but thought her singing career was more important. All the better, since when I watched Star Wars as a kid I paid attention to the story. If it had been Terri Nunn all I would have been thinking about is “When do Leia’s clothes come off?”
The one person I’ve seen who missed many roles is Nick Nolte. Characters he turned down or was passed over for: Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Superman, Willard in Apocalypse Now, Deckard in Blade Runner, Rambo, and others. Notice he seems to get replaced by or lose to Harrison Ford a lot. Sad, he’s a better actor than the people who got those roles.
Robert De Niro as Han Solo. Wow.
“I gotta make the ****ing comuptations for ****ing hyperspace!”
Constantine with any American actor would be the same stupid idea. Should have been Jason Statham, Christian Bale, Gerard Butler etc.
1. Donald Sutherland as Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now (Martin Sheen played this role)
2. Tom Hanks as Phil in Groundhog Day (Bill Murray played this role)
By the way: does anyone know when "National Treasure III" is going to come out? Is it even being made??
As silly as it sounds, I enjoy the movie. I only hope they find better "villians" than the last two.
Constantine definitely was a Nic Cage type flick.
One that I have always gotten a chuckle out of is the fact that Bing Crosby was originally supposed to play Columbo.
Before casting Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, George Lucas considered casting Japanese actor Toshirô Mifune. He also considered making casting a Japanese Princess Leia.
I think Nick Nolte is a good actor, but there’s something about him that seems to add a “non-serious” element to many of the serious roles he plays. Maybe it’s because I can’t helping thinking of his various mug shots whenever I see him in a movie.
Wow — that’s hard to picture. LOL.
First hint they were going to FUBAR one of my favorite adult graphic novels. They changed the name of movie: “Hellblazer” > “Constantine”.
Second Hint: They made John Constantine an American.
I can hear Jack Nicholson saying "flying through f***ing hyperspace ain't like dustin' f***ing crops, boy!"
I don't think Unforgiven would have been quite as good without Gene Hackman as Little Bill. As far as Young Frankenstein, I loved the character but didn't realize that was him until about the third time I saw it. I was so used to him in big, strong roles that it just flew by me.
“I was gonna make espresso!”
Legend has it that Peter Falk went to the producers/directors and basically said: “You need to understand! This character is me!” The rest is history....
Which usually involved who would or wouldn't sleep on the 'casting couch.'
Too bad Dick Shawn wasn’t alive, he could have reprised his role as Hitler in “Downfall.”
You think the YouTube parodies are a hoot now.
I saw that movie 14 times in the theater WAY back when I was a kid.
Loved Gene Wilder.
Anyway, Hackman did steal that movie!
I remember reading somewhere that Anthony Quinn and Danny Thomas were both considered for the role of Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.” Also, the studio wanted Robert Reford for the role of Michael (James Caan also auditioned for the role.)
Tim Matheson, Peter Coyote and Tom Sellick for Indiana Jones (what a fail those would have been). Sean Young for Marion (still love her in Bladerunner).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyHSgEbNng
harry potter would be the kid from six sense and A.I.
“The Bodyguard”, with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, was originally written a number years before, with Steve McQueen in the title role. (I don’t know who would have been cast in the Whitney Houston role.)
There is a bit of strangeness to him. But he's one of the few actors who in my opinion "own" a role, in that I can't see anybody else playing it. For him that was a pretty serious role, Howard Campbell in Mother Night.
Spot on. I think Damon got scared he was being typed cast and wanted to stretch as an actor and play straight guys.
Looking at the trailer, Nathan Fillion may be the only thing that saves this movie. Can’t believe how cheesy the “aliens” looked. And the sets were painted screens. Geez.
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