Casting changes
 

Beverly Hills Cop...original casting changes...How would this movie be without Eddy Murphy???

Submit other changes that would have dramatically changed a 'blockbuster'...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...c-Con_2010.jpgJerry Bruckheimer originally wanted Mickey Rourke in the lead role, but when he pulled out, it was offered to Stallone. Stallone personally rewrote the script. He removed all the elements of humor and had plans on turning the film into an action packed blockbuster. Due to budgetary constraints, Stallone and the producers went their separate ways. Stallone took his ideas from his rewrite and made the film Cobra. After Eddie Murphy was cast, script rewrites were made to repair the damage done by Stallone. In Beverly Hills Cop 2, there is a brief scene in which Axel Foley is looking at a poster from Cobra while talking on the phone.

Will Smith originally was wanted to play Neo in The Matrix. That would have been interesting.

Leonardo Dicaprio turned down Neo too.

Also, Dirk from Boogie Nights. Which would have been ridiculous. Anytime that man tries to play anything other than androgynous or effeminate, I want to puke.

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Eric Stolz as Marty McFly (Back to the Future)
Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
John Belushi as Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters)
Johnny Depp as Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Kevin Bacon as Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
OJ Simpson as the T-1000 (The Terminator)
Marlon Wayans as Robin (Batman Returns)
Chris Farley as Shrek (Shrek)
Jack Nicholson as Michael Corleone (The Godfather)

I'd still like to see the footage they shot of Stoltz for BttF- they got 10 days of shooting in before he got replaced and I guess it's pretty funny / bizarre?

Here are some other ones that I know about:

Molly Ringwald
(Pretty Woman)
Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts
(The Blind Side, The Proposal, Sleepless in Seattle)
Sandra Bullock
Meg Ryan

Thomas Jane
(Mad Men)
John Hamm

Paul Giamatti
(The Office)
Steve Correll

Mel Gibson
(Gladiator)
Russell Crowe

Tom Hanks
(Jerry Maguire)
Tom Cruise -

Tom Cruise
(Footloose)
Kevin Bacon

John Travolta
(Forrest Gump)
Tom Hanks

Michelle Pfeiffer
(Silence of the Lambs, Basic Instinct)
Jodie Foster
Sharon Stone

Sean Connery
(Lord of the Rings, Gandolf)
Ian McKellen

Al Pacino
(Star Wars, Han Solo)
Harrison Ford

Jeremy Irons
(Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lector)
Anthony Hopkins

Reese Witherspoon
(Scream, Sydney Prescott)
Neve Campbell

Jake Gyllenhaal
(Avatar, Jake Sully)
Sam Worthington

Sandra Bullock
(Million Dollar Baby)
Hillary Swank

Mel Gibson
(Batman)
Michael Keaton

Bruce Willis
(Ghost)
Patrick Swayze

Jim Carrey
(Edward Scissorhands)
Johnny Depp

ugh, Forrest Gump with Travolta's shit acting?

Thank you Tom Hanks.

I believe Daniel Day-Lewis was originally wanted for Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction... I would have liked to see that, but we wouldn't have had Travolta's comeback most likely, and probably no Face-Off.

Woah Sandy- hey! I may not be a smart man, but Mr. Kotter told me I know what love is!

Don't touch the hair!

Harvey Weinstein lobbied Tarentino that he wanted him to cast DD Lewis, but he never warmed up to the idea.

Originally, there wasn't a Vincent Vega character. Michael Madsen, who played Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, passed on doing Pulp Fiction, and instead chose to do Wyett Earp with Kevin Costner.
This became the spark for the creation of Vic's brother, Vincent Vega.

A Vega brothers movie has had an automatic greenlight outstanding since the release of Pulp Fiction, and Quinton has been interested in the idea, even teasing some pretty awesome ideas for the story from time to time. But, never enough to make the Vega movie over what his current project of interest is at the time. It was thought to be his next project after Inglorious Bastards, and then he just pulled a 180 after another idea popped into his head and become the focus for his next film...


That ship has most likely sailed unless he actually starts some actual preproduction on it within the next 2 or so years.

Sinatra was to be Dirty Harry

Mama always say-add, don't shoot at the thermonucular devices.

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Forrest Gump is perfect with Hanks but I would be interested to see how it would have been with Kevin Bacon. For some reason, I can see him in that role.