Matt Dunn
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Post by Matt Dunn on Apr 5, 2009 3:00:46 GMT -5
Why were they casting flat-chested BLONDES for a role that required a busty, vivacious RED HEAD? And yeah, wigs/dyes and falsies can do wonders....but why not go NATURAL? They could have had Nikki Cox back before she snorkED herself up! Or Jennifer Connelly back before she quit eating solid foods altogether! GOD DAMN IT, SONY! Don't mean to sound stupid but what are you talking about?
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Post by Danimal on Apr 5, 2009 3:11:25 GMT -5
Sandra Bullock was going to play Hillary Swank's role in 'Million Dollar Baby' but Bullock was busy making 'Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous'. Now thats a HUGE mistake right there. I'd say Swank was better suited for the role anyway. Molly Ringwald did turn down Pretty Woman, genius also turned-down Ghost. What were her other options? Jennifer Jason Leigh also turned-down Pretty Woman. Travolta could've had Forrest Gump.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Apr 5, 2009 9:42:52 GMT -5
Travolta did take the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction in its stead so I don't think he should regret it. He also got an Oscar nom for best actor along Hanks.
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Matt Dunn
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Post by Matt Dunn on Apr 5, 2009 10:39:57 GMT -5
Bing Crosby as Columbo. That would have sucked hard.
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Sonic...SonicTruth
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Post by Sonic...SonicTruth on Apr 5, 2009 10:51:38 GMT -5
...I came into this thread to say that Mickey Rourke turned down BOTH the roles that John Travolta and Bruce Willis wound up getting in Pulp Fiction, and that the list of movies Rourke turned down while his career went into tailspin was INSANE.
...Then...Then I read about Bill Murray as Batman, HULK HOGAN AS MISTER FREEZE, and TUPAC AS BUBBA.
In some alternate reality...in some alternate reality...
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Post by T.J. "the Crippler" Stevens on Apr 5, 2009 12:48:16 GMT -5
In the earliest draft from Aykroyd, it would've have been a trio of himself, John Belushi and Eddie Murphy. If cast as Winston, he would've been hired much earlier, early enough to have been part of the Slimer hunt and would've been the one slimed not Venkman. Murphy was filming Beverly Hills Cop at the time. Sylvester Stallone was cast to be cast in the lead with Michael as his brother and Jenny as the love interest. Two weeks before filming he left and the script was patched together from previous drafts and ad-libs by Murphy and the rest of the cast when needed. Stallone had reworked the script to the point where the studio refused to film that. He left and took his ideas and made Cobra. To be fair to Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop grossed more at the box-office than Ghostbusters. In fact it's still the highest grossing comedy of all time. So if he really had to pick one or the other, because he clearly couldn't do both, it looks like he made the right choice.
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Apr 5, 2009 13:04:35 GMT -5
Why were they casting flat-chested BLONDES for a role that required a busty, vivacious RED HEAD? And yeah, wigs/dyes and falsies can do wonders....but why not go NATURAL? They could have had Nikki Cox back before she snorkED herself up! Or Jennifer Connelly back before she quit eating solid foods altogether! GOD DAMN IT, SONY! I might be able to figure out just what this is suppose to mean, if you can at least mention the film and role(s) you're referring to.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Apr 5, 2009 14:32:11 GMT -5
In the earliest draft from Aykroyd, it would've have been a trio of himself, John Belushi and Eddie Murphy. If cast as Winston, he would've been hired much earlier, early enough to have been part of the Slimer hunt and would've been the one slimed not Venkman. Murphy was filming Beverly Hills Cop at the time. Sylvester Stallone was cast to be cast in the lead with Michael as his brother and Jenny as the love interest. Two weeks before filming he left and the script was patched together from previous drafts and ad-libs by Murphy and the rest of the cast when needed. Stallone had reworked the script to the point where the studio refused to film that. He left and took his ideas and made Cobra. To be fair to Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop grossed more at the box-office than Ghostbusters. In fact it's still the highest grossing comedy of all time. So if he really had to pick one or the other, because he clearly couldn't do both, it looks like he made the right choice. Oh yeah, I think when actors say they regret the descision in an interview, they don't have a chance to look up imdb and see what they did in it's stead. Beverly Hills Cop was the main role too so it showed Murphy as a box office draw that being 1/4 of a Ghostbusters cast, even with a larger role, could not have.
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hassanchop
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Post by hassanchop on Apr 5, 2009 15:00:46 GMT -5
Toshiro Mifune(Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo) as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
Jean Reno as Agent Smith in The Matrix
Groucho Marx, Stan Laurel, Judy Garland as cameos in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Bill Mumy as aged Will Robinson in Lost In Space movie and Jonathan Harris as the man who hired, then betrayed, Dr. Smith("I will have you know I have never done a walk-on or bit part in my life! And I do not intend to start.")
Quentin Tarantino as President of the US in Battle Royale 2
Dudley Moore as Jonathan Switcher in Mannequin(the lead part was originally written to be an older, lonely storekeeper)
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Post by AriadosMan on Apr 5, 2009 15:02:48 GMT -5
Biggest miscasting I'm glad never happened: Nicholas Cage as Randy "the Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler.
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Post by Cela on Apr 5, 2009 15:03:09 GMT -5
Why were they casting flat-chested BLONDES for a role that required a busty, vivacious RED HEAD? And yeah, wigs/dyes and falsies can do wonders....but why not go NATURAL? They could have had Nikki Cox back before she snorkED herself up! Or Jennifer Connelly back before she quit eating solid foods altogether! GOD DAMN IT, SONY! I might be able to figure out just what this is suppose to mean, if you can at least mention the film and role(s) you're referring to. Pretty sure he meant the Kate Hudson role of Mary Jane Watson that went to Kirsten Dunst. Spiderman y'all.
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Post by Will Has 'Til Five, Ref on Apr 5, 2009 16:23:27 GMT -5
Biggest miscasting I'm glad never happened: Nicholas Cage as Randy "the Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler. Oh man, I shudder at the thought of Calculon as The Wrestler. "Not the thumbtacks! The thumbtacks are in my eyes! Ahhh! Ahhh!"
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Post by texaswhopper on Apr 5, 2009 16:56:31 GMT -5
No, the role that George Chakiris won an Oscar for. That movie was a huge winner taking home 10 Oscars.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Apr 5, 2009 17:09:42 GMT -5
It was actually the role of Tony not Bernardo.
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 6, 2009 1:09:00 GMT -5
I got the winner right here. Richard Grieco turned down Speed because he thought the script sucked. He was right. How many times can you say that about Richard Grieco? Anyways, I remember a story that Jim Carrey got the role of Ace Ventura after Chris Farley turned it down. Farley was also supposed to be the voice of Shrek, but he died after about half of the moviewas done. Christopher Reeve is reported to have turned down American Gigolo, Fatal Attraction and Splash.
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Post by Paul Servo on Apr 6, 2009 1:25:38 GMT -5
Robert Redford turned down some interesting roles: - Bonnie & Clyde (Warren Beatty took it) - The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman) - The Godfather (Al Pacino as Michael Corleone) - JFK (Kevin Costner) - Unfaithful (Richard Gere) One site says he was once considered to play Rocky and James Bond, though I'd take that with a grain of salt. Given Stallone wrote and driected (?) ROCKY, I seriously doubt he wanted another person in the role Speaking of Sly, wasn't he supposed to be Axle Foley in BEVERLY HILLS COP? Brad Pitt in INDEPENDENCE DAY (Will Smith role) I heard Bill Murry was supposed to be the Devil in WITCHES OF EASTWICK. Also Tim Burton's BATMAN (possibly the Joker, but I thought I heard he was up for the title role) I never heard about Eddie Murphy and ROGER RABBIT (not even on the IMDB trivia section. Did say that Chevy Chase turned down the role of Eddie).
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 6, 2009 1:31:09 GMT -5
Speaking of Sly, wasn't he supposed to be Axle Foley in BEVERLY HILLS COP? Yeah, but he didn't like their script, they didn't like his ideas, so they picked up Murphy and Stallone used his ideas to make "Cobra" instead. Speaking of Stallone in "Rocky"... I read a rumour that when Warren Beatty started working on "Heaven Can Wait" (he produced and directed), he wanted Muhammad Ali to star. Ali turned it down, so Beatty starred in it himself.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Apr 6, 2009 3:21:56 GMT -5
Jurassic Park: Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, and William Hurt were all offered the part of Alan Grant, but turned it down (the first two were too expensive). Sam Niell had been Spielberg's first choice for the role, but he had originally been too busy to take the part. But they worked out a workable schedule for Niell to play the role.
Apocalypse Now: Steve McQueen and Al Pacino both turned down the role of Capt. Willard because they didn't want to travel. Also, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and James Caan were each offered the parts of either Willard or Col. Kurtz.
Dr. No: Cary Grant was offered to be James Bond, but he turned it down because he was 58 at the time and thought he was too old for the role.
Speaking of Bond, Pierce Brosnan was almost cast as James Bond for The Living Daylights back in '87, but last-minute schedule issues arose and he had to turn it down, so the role went to Timothy Dalton.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2009 10:09:28 GMT -5
Tom Selleck losing out on the role of Indiana Jones is probably one of the more infamous, though he didn't really turn it DOWN, as much as he just couldn't do it due to Magnum PI being in production. First thing that entered my head.
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on Apr 6, 2009 10:52:55 GMT -5
A lot of critical ridicule but they've sold. The second has improved it's mechanical problems and has gotten good press for it. Granted, but the 50 Cent games aren't even in the same league as GTA: San Andreas.
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