Almost very serious Hollywood mistcasts

[LynneSin]

Do you know Kirk Cameron was almost considered for the part of Lloyd Dobler from "Say Anything".

[Brickbat]

1. Owie!

I just read that Anthony Michael Hall was the first choice for Matthew Modine's character in "Full Metal Jacket."

[LynneSin]

2. Richard Gere was first choice for Gorden Gekko in Wall Street

Michael Douglas owned that role.

ALthough Daryl Hannah was horrible miscast as Darian.

[PassingFair]

24. To be fair...

Daryl Hannah was horribly miscast in everything.

[Taverner]

8. To be honest, that would have worked

Look at the films he was doing then - mostly serious roles. He had just come off the heels of "Edward Scissorhands" and had begun to shake the nerd typecast

[SteppingRazor]

3. Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones is a pretty famous one. n/t

[Richardo]

4. Ronald Reagan as Rick Blaine in Casablanca

...has to be the worst, even though it's an unsubstantiated rumor.

[Demoiselle]

6. And all this time I thought that was substantiated fact!

...Along with Ann Sheridan and Dennis Morgan in the Bergman and Henreid roles. (Respectively, of course.)
Not even that great script could have saved the movie with that cast!

[mitchum]

5. Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce was a terrible miscasting that actually happened

[av8rdave]

7. Kevin Costner turned down the role of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) in Shawshank Redemption

The movie came THAT close to total suckdom.

On Edit: Turns out he was working on "Waterworld" at the time. Guess that movie wound up being good for something after all!

I had also heard that Tom Hanks turned down the role because he was working on "Forrest Gump" at the time.

[Bertha Venation]

9. GOOD!!

Tim Robbins was perfect.

[LynneSin]

10. But scroll down and look at some of the folks almost casted for "Bull Durham"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094812/trivia

Kevin Costner owned that roll. I had such a crush on him after that movie.

[av8rdave]

12. He can make a mediocre to average baseball movie, IMO

Other than that....

Oh well, different tastes are what keep us all interesting.


:hi:

[driver8]

14. He was awesome in that movie -- another movie I love! n/t

[driver8]

13. One of my favorite movies -- it would have SUCKED with Costner in it.

Tom Hanks might have been ok, though.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. Robert Redford or Warren Beatty as Michael Corleone.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Anthony Perkins as baseball great Jimmy Piersall

It actually happened.

[mitchum]

18. "Is that good enough for you, Pop???!!!"

[Kingofalldems]

21. He played an all star baseball player--and threw like a little girl.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. If Divine were still alive...

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My apologies to Divine and my hopes that the spinning stops soon.
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[LynneSin]

19. It's funny you mention Divine

I thought John Travolta was a horrible miscast for Hairspray the Music (based on the broadway play based on the John Waters movie). Divine was the orginal Edna Turnblad and Harvey Feirstein brought her to life on broadway.

But finally HBO was on a Hairspray kick and I watched the move. I thought Travolta did a really great job with the part. Those were some really big shoes to fill and he found a way to create his own special Edna. Of course it helped that Christopher Walkens played Edna's husband. I thought the casting was sublime - Travolta and Walkens had great chemistry together!

[Tom_Foolery]

17. Chuck Norris was considered for the role of Red on That 70s Show. n/t

[Roon]

20. Buddy Ebsen was going to play the tinman in the wizard of oz

but he was allergic to the silver makeup.

[Richardo]

22. That would have been *better* casting in my book.

Jack Haley. Meh.

[mitchum]

23. True, but Ebsen was one of the original California far far right wingnuts...

I have always been so disappointed that Jed Clampett was so perfectly played by such a sonofabitch. And Buddy was that.

[Bucky]

27. Imagine the discussions he and Ms Hathaway must've had on the set

... and in costume no less!

[mitchum]

28. I imagine they were pretty heated...

"In 1984, Kulp ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from Pennsylvania, but was unsuccessful. As an opponent of a Republican incumbent, Bud Shuster, in a Republican district in a year in which U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan won a landslide reelection, Kulp was the underdog despite the otherwise favorable climate for liberal Democrats in Pennsylvania as a whole.<4> To her dismay, Hillbillies co-star Buddy Ebsen supported Schuster and even appeared in an advertisement in which he labeled Kulp as "too liberal." Ebsen claimed that Kulp was exploiting her celebrity status and did not have a grasp on the issues. Shuster defeated Kulp with 67 percent of the vote"

What a jerk

[baldguy]

25. Kurt Russell as Han Solo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nix_PID3oiA

Cindy Williams as Princess Leia Organa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ob-k0Rr6Fg

Andrew Stevens as Luke!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orz1gx_yyZ4

Jack Lemmon as Chebacca!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmigAcg7Y_k

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. Micky Dolenz as Fonzie on Happy Days

Say what you will about that show, and it did go way down hill before finally going away, but I'm not sure an actor ever owned a part like Henry Winkler did with Fonzie. Pretty much no one else could have made it work.

[Tom_Foolery]

29. Telly Savalas was originally offerd the role of Luke in Cool Hand Luke...

but producers were not willing to wait for him to return from Europe via ocean liner. Paul Newman got the part instead. So why didn't Telly fly home from Europe? He had a terrible fear of flying. I'm a big fan of Telly Savalas, but I just can't see him as Luke.

Here's a more obscure one: Telly was supposed to play the lead in the TV series Harry O, but the part eventually went to David Janssen.

[woo me with science]

30. Rock Hudson as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird." nt

[woo me with science]

31. Shirley Temple as Dorothy ("The Wizard of Oz") nt

[woo me with science]

32. Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers as George Bailey &Mary ("It's a Wonderful Life") nt

[woo me with science]

33. Michelle Pfeiffer and Emma Thompson turned down the role of Clarice Starling

in "Silence of the Lambs."

[woo me with science]

34. Gene Hackman was 1st choice for Hannibal Lecter. nt

[Bucky]

37. Not bad, but would've been a very different movie.

Hackman would probably play Lecter as cerebral and a sophisticated cad with elegant tastes for the finer things in life.

Hopkins played him as almost a murder artist--just purely decadent.

[woo me with science]

35. Doris Day as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate"!!!!!!!!! nt

[woo me with science]

36. http://www.notstarring.com

has some fantastic stuff, searchable by movie or actor.