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post #1 of 18
6/29/04 at 10:01pm
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We've all seen performances in films that would be better served by other actors. It's something we're reminded of whenever we hear those 'almost cast' rumours (like the scary one about Richard Gere turning down Die Hard, phew!) Anyway, here are some fantasy castings (some might not have been better, but would have been interesting):

Sly Stallone or Val Kilmer as Butch in Pulp Fiction
Daniel Day Lewis as Louis in Interview with the Vampire
Colin Farrell as Amsterdam in Gangs of New York
Christopher Walken or Hugh Jackman as Billy in Chicago
Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt as the two leads in Point Break (in fact, imagine Johnny Depp in any Keanu Reeves role!)
Catherine Zeta Jones as Tess in Oceans 11
Bruce Willis as Bud White in L.A. Confidential
Eminem as Snoop in Out of Sight

What do we think?
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post #2 of 18
6/29/04 at 10:27pm
Well, for the most part... those ideas suck, in my opinion. But the Depp in any Keanu role is pretty dead on, really. Except little buddha and johnny mnemonic. As for the Matrix, wow.... what if that was Johnny Depp? weird. Walken in Chicago would have been amazing.

some of my own...
Keith David as Det. Harris in Training Day.
He could've carried the movie. I have faith in him.

Dustin Hoffman as Michael in The Godfather Trilogy.
And to think it almost happened!

Gabriel Byrne as Cpt. Barbosa in Pirates of the Caribbean.
No complaints for G. Rush, but what if?
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post #3 of 18
6/29/04 at 11:10pm
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Michael Corleone is such a good role that any of the then-mooted actors for the part (Redford, Beatty, Hoffman) would have done it justice (Robert Redford excepted, too blonde to be a Sicilian!)

Again, Barbosa is a great part, but my dream choice would be another Dublin native; Brendan Gleason.

Keith David in Training Day is a nice choice, underrated actor. Sam jackson could have done that too. I liked that Washington was cast against type tho.
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post #4 of 18
6/29/04 at 11:34pm
Billy Dee Williams as Mad Max
Clint Eastwood as Aragorn
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post #5 of 18
6/30/04 at 3:12am
Keanu Reeves replacing Al Pacino in the Godfather Trilogy
Nicole Kidman replacing Kate Beckinsale in Underworld
Michael Madsen as Morpheus in the Matrix semi-Trilogy
Verne Troyer replacing Elijah Wood in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Richard Prior replacing Bill Paxton in Club Dread
Sonny Chiba replacing anybody in House of the Dead
Quentin Tarantino replacing Jared Leto in Panic Room
Paris Hilton replacing Natalie Portman in Star Wars: Prequel Faux Pas
Harrison Ford as Bill in Kill Bill
Warren Beatty replacing Ron Perlman in Hellboy
Dame Judy Dench replacing Vin Diesel in The Iron Giant
Drizzt Do'Urden replacing Greedo in Star Wars: Some Kind of Screwup
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post #6 of 18
6/30/04 at 4:41am
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Originally Posted by BlascosGunfight
Keanu Reeves replacing Al Pacino in the Godfather Trilogy
Nicole Kidman replacing Kate Beckinsale in Underworld
Michael Madsen as Morpheus in the Matrix semi-Trilogy
Verne Troyer replacing Elijah Wood in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Richard Prior replacing Bill Paxton in Club Dread
Sonny Chiba replacing anybody in House of the Dead
Quentin Tarantino replacing Jared Leto in Panic Room
Paris Hilton replacing Natalie Portman in Star Wars: Prequel Faux Pas
Harrison Ford as Bill in Kill Bill
Warren Beatty replacing Ron Perlman in Hellboy
Dame Judy Dench replacing Vin Diesel in The Iron Giant
Drizzt Do'Urden replacing Greedo in Star Wars: Some Kind of Screwup
you totally just railed the shit out of this thread

not really, but.... verne troyer?
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post #7 of 18
6/30/04 at 11:52am
Well, I'm going with Malcom McDowell instead of that Eastern European dude in "Eurotrip" as Igor Karakoff in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", dammit.
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post #8 of 18
6/30/04 at 11:53am
Stallone as Sloth
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post #9 of 18
10/12/04 at 10:18pm
Harvey Keitel as Wolverine...

You got a problem with that, bub?
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post #10 of 18
10/12/04 at 10:21pm
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Originally Posted by chon
Bruce Willis as Bud White in L.A. Confidential
NO.

Walken as Billy Flynn would've owned, though.
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post #11 of 18
10/12/04 at 11:00pm
You know, when James Cameron was filming his last film Titanic ten years ago, there were rumors that he would be doing Spiderman. I thought while he was filming Titanic, he was really secretly filming Spiderman with:

Leo as Peter Parker

Kate Winslet as Mary Jane

Bill Paxton as The Green Goblin

It could have worked. Then. Not now of course. Back then, nobody hated Leo, and he was a decent actor.
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post #12 of 18
10/13/04 at 10:22am
There were some interesting casting choices for two of my favorite movies-
Viggo Mortensen and Ewan McGregor were both considered for Van Helsing. If Ewan did get that part, it would've been too "Moulin Rouge!" for me....

Speaking of that, Zooey Deuschanel was going to be Satine in that movie, but they thought she was too young at the time for that part. AND Hugh Jackman was considered for Christian. Whoa...
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post #13 of 18
10/13/04 at 10:25am
Ewan would never have done that movie, though. It's the type of flick he hates.

Zooey Deschanel is way hot, too...
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post #14 of 18
10/13/04 at 10:30am
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Originally Posted by Charles B
Ewan would never have done that movie, though. It's the type of flick he hates.
Thankfully, the director thought that since Viggo and Ewan already did their big trilogies, he'd go with a new actor. Of course, Hugh also has more "X-Men" movies, so as Empire Magazine put it, it's his "Han Solo/Indiana Jones" movies.
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post #15 of 18
10/13/04 at 11:29am
Cynthia Rothrock as The Bride. You think I'm joking? I'm deadly fucking serious.
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post #16 of 18
10/13/04 at 8:24pm
I'm gonna say this until I die...


Angela Bassett as Storm in XMen
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post #17 of 18
10/14/04 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by E.C.
I'm gonna say this until I die...


Angela Bassett as Storm in XMen
I second that. Why oh why did she choose "Supernova" over that?!
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post #18 of 18
10/14/04 at 1:06pm
I don't usually go in for fantasty re-casting, but Sean Bean would have been a much better choice for Sirius in Harry Potter. Gary Oldman is an amazing actor, but Bean would have owned that role. He's who I imagined when reading the character on the page.
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