March 14, 2007

Hollywood Bizarro: Notstarring.com chronicles the roles that actors either didn't get or turned down: Christopher Lee as Grand Moff Tarkin! Chevy Chase as Forrest Gump! Russel Crowe as Aragorn!
posted by Nickdanger 17 years ago
  • I can't imagine casting anyone but Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar. Paul Giamatti is Harvey Pekar. Leonardo DiCaprio????
  • Toshiro Mifune as Obi-Wan would have been AWESOME. No offence, Alec.
  • Sean Connery as Captain von Trapp would have been AWESHOME. No offence, Chris.
  • Barry Manilow as Ted Striker would have been, uh, perversely fascinating. I'll stop now.
  • Roles turned down by O.J. Simpson: The Terminator Passed over for the role of the terminator because producers feared he wouldn't be taken seriously as a killer. Potential Oscar win missed there...
  • Ronald Reagan as Rick in "Casablanca" "Play one for the Gipper, Sam..."
  • Dustin Hoffman as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner? Someone is just making shit up.
  • Russel Crowe as Aragorn! *shudders*
  • Tupac Shakur in Forrest Gump His ex-wife says he auditioned for the role of Bubba. Yeah, what Fes said.
  • Oh, what a different world we would live in had Top Gun starred Scott Baio and Ally Sheedy. Goose: It's the bottom of the 9th, the score is tied, its time for the big one. Iceman: You up for this one, Chachi? Chachi: Wa wa wa!
  • John Hurt as Hannibal Lecter would have been of a terror level unable to be constrained to celluloid. No offence, Tony. (Sweet Mothra, this is fascinating -- good find, Nick!)
  • Look Who's Talking Too Richard Pryor was set to do the voice of Eddie but reportedly got sick. As did we all. OK, seriously now, I'm stopping.
  • Look Who's Talking Too Richard Pryor was set to do the voice of Eddie but reportedly got sick. As did we all. OK, seriously now, I'm stopping.
  • How about John Lithgow as Hannibal (for both Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs)? "I'll eat your damned liver, monkey-boy!!"
  • I would pay cash money to see Christopher Walken as Han Solo. I think a remake is in order.
  • *still waiting to see the quidnunc kid starring as The Rock Bruce Willis.*
  • I believe you are referring to Guerilla Gorillas: Banana Death Force One!
  • Why, yes I was! Something about your initial comment struck a memory - I can't imagine casting anyone but...
  • Why isn't my name mentioned on the site? I was passed over for every single listed film.
  • This thing is quite the time-sink.
  • Yeah, it's pretty kife.
  • I am calling bullshit on the role of the little girl in Pan's Labyrinth originally being offered to Nathan Lane.
  • Walken as Han Solo or Kevin Spacey as Walken as Solo.
  • Brian Cox's accent in 'Manhunter' was scary enough, I think John Hurt would have been even better. And I bet he wouldn't have done a Sigourney Weaver and milked the franchise for sequel after sequel. John Lithgow kind of lost it after '
  • cont... 'Third Rock from the Sun', and his accent in 'Cliffhanger' was also terrifying.
  • Russel Crowe as Aragorn! *shudders* Well, yeah but... Viggo Mortensen was OK, but maybe a little too starved and cadaverous looking? Thank God they didn't get Keanu Reeves, though.
  • Ah, Keanu, you beautiful golem...