One aspect of crazy movie chatter at the water cooler that I think we’ve been missing out on is…
What is the craziest ‘nearly cast in this role’ that you can think of, and that you can NOT imagine working? (To be valid, this isn’t fantasy casting… who was legit considered for a role???)
par ex: Carrie, Harrison, and Mark in Star Wars. Excellent, we love them.
Would we have loved Terri Nunn, Christopher Walken, and William Katt as much? Or others who were (in)famously up for those roles?
Especially cool of course would be to link roles to MST3K experiments. Now, that might be a taller order, it might not, but this is a MST3K forum, and the gauntlet is dropped with a ‘meh, whatevs’ at your feet.
Have at, Hamdingers!
(for those who don’t want to do the math, Mathers was 18 in '66, John Reynolds was 25)
Wasn’t Will Smith in consideration for one of the roles in The Matrix? I like him, but I don’t think he’d be a good fit even if he had signed up for the role.
Billy Idol was going to play the T-1000 in Terminator 2 until he was hospitalized in a motorcycle accident. He certainly would have made for a great screen presence, but in exchange we got three decades and counting of great Robert Patrick performances built off that role.
Hm, that might explain how Jean Sullivan (Geri’s mom) ended up in that movie. She was a legitimate stage and screen actress and I always wondered how she ended up there.
Maybe they told her they had these other actors on tap and then it was too late to back out.
Sort of. The novel that Die Hard was loosely based on was a sequel to another, which had been adapted to a film in 1968 with Sinatra playing the role, so he technically had to refuse to play McClane before anyone else could be considered. But he immediately did, since he never had any intention of doing it.