Actors that were supposed to be cast
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nitestocker372 — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 08:22 AM)
I remember back in the 90's, I had heard that Wesley Snipes was suppose to play Marvel's Black Panther.
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Jonesy_1 — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 09:36 AM)
Steve McQueen was the first actor approached by Steven Spielberg to play Roy Neary in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind but turned it down because he said he couldn't cry on cue. Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, and James Caan were all approached but turned the role down before it went to Richard Dreyfuss.
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srobertweiser — 9 years ago(January 26, 2017 12:26 PM)
I swear on my dear mother's grave that it's 100% true, I don't just make this stuff up for kicks.
Another one that sounds absolutely ridiculous but I hear is the honest-to-goodness truth: Eli Wallach was supposed to play the lead role in Risky Business but he got into a furious, knock down brawl with Joe Pantoliano and broke his hip, so he couldn't do that famous scene where he slides into the room in his underwear. -
tim-xy — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 06:38 AM)
Peter O'Toole was supposed to play Doctor Zhivago. So was Michael Caine. Neither wanted the role. Alec Guinness did want it but was not cast. Omar Sharif wanted the role of Pasha and got Zhivago, much to his surprise.
Marlon Brando and Albert Finney were supposed to play T E Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. Neither wanted the part and Peter O'Toole got it. Another actor (I forget who) was cast as Ali, then a then internationally unknown Omar Sharif was brought in for another, much smaller part, and David Lean liked him so much and found that his English was good enough for a big part, so the other actor was bought off (supposedly for a sum several times the amount of what Sharif was paid for playing the part).
The Bond franchise:
David Niven is supposed to have declined the part of Bond before Connery got it.
Timothy Dalton was approached for On Her Majesty's Secret Servie and declined, apparently feeling he was too young.
Pierce Brosnan was supposed to do The Living Daylights (after Dalton declined because he was doing another film), then had to pull out because Remington Steele was renewed at the last minute and the Bond people decided to go with Dalton as soon as he was available. -
The Gryphon — 9 years ago(January 25, 2017 10:56 PM)
George Segal was supposed to star in "10" but ankled the production. Dudley Moore took the role instead.
Later, in some trivia section I read, Moore walked away from a production and Segal took his role. Sorry I can't remember that title.