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Movie roles that no-one else could play & vise versa.


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Oh and one role which definitely should have gone to someone else (*cough* Orson Welles *cough*) was Ahab in Moby Dick.

Gregory Peck was poor in that movie, and I'm a big fan of his.

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James Stewert in Harvey .... no another actor could have carried off that role

most famous role turned down could well be Jack Nicholson who turned down the part of Michael Corleone in the Godfather

talking of John Travolta ..Michael Marsden was due to play the part of Vincent in Pulp fiction

Mel Gibson turned down Gladiator ... I think the film got lucky by having Crowe over Gibson

Di Caprio turned down the part of Dirk Diggler .. would have been interesting to see though I think part of the attraction of Wahlberg in that role was nobody was expecting him to be that good

Madonna was due to play the Sharon stone role in Casino ..think she would have single handily ruined that film

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James Stewert in Harvey .... no another actor could have carried off that role

most famous role turned down could well be Jack Nicholson who turned down the part of Michael Corleone in the Godfather

talking of John Travolta ..Michael Marsden was due to play the part of Vincent in Pulp fiction

Mel Gibson turned down Gladiator ... I think the film got lucky by having Crowe over Gibson

Di Caprio turned down the part of Dirk Diggler .. would have been interesting to see though I think part of the attraction of Wahlberg in that role was nobody was expecting him to be that good

Madonna was due to play the Sharon stone role in Casino ..think she would have single handily ruined that film

Some good ones there Tony. Madonna in Casino would have been a disaster!

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Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump.

John Travolta was the original 1st choice to play Forrest Gump but turned it down, Bill Murray was another choice but they eventually went with Tom Hanks.

I cant imagine that anyone else could have pulled off that role as good as Hanks did.

And the vise versa bit...

Cant stand Christian Bale as Batman, surely they could find someone better than him to play Batman!?

Hugh Jackman would have been a good choice.

Forrest Gump, hmmmm.

So what we are looking for is a American guy who buys a business he knows **** all about, something like shrimp fishing or football or something similar & has no real interest in how it performs or what he bought it for except Bubba convinced him he was onto a winner?

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Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump.

John Travolta was the original 1st choice to play Forrest Gump but turned it down, Bill Murray was another choice but they eventually went with Tom Hanks.

I cant imagine that anyone else could have pulled off that role as good as Hanks did.

And the vise versa bit...

Cant stand Christian Bale as Batman, surely they could find someone better than him to play Batman!?

Hugh Jackman would have been a good choice.

Forrest Gump, hmmmm.

So what we are looking for is a American guy who buys a business he knows **** all about, something like shrimp fishing or football or something similar & has no real interest in how it performs or what he bought it for except Bubba convinced him he was onto a winner?

I see where you going here! :)

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Bruce Campbell as Ash in the Evil Dead series

Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey in the Death Wish series

Micheal J Fox as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future series

Macauly Culkin as KEVIN! in Home Alone 1 & 2

John Candy as Uncle Buck in Uncle Buck

Johnny 5 as himself in the Short Circuit series

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Micheal J Fox as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future series

The film makers obviously agreed with you, seeing as they filmed 5 weeks worth of footage with Eric Stoltz in the role before giving him the boot and getting Fox instead

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talking of John Travolta ..Michael Marsden was due to play the part of Vincent in Pulp fiction

Do you mean Michael Madsen? (that makes me sound like a knob pointing out your mistake, I don't mean to be!)

That would make sense as isn't Travolta's character supposed to be the brother of Madsen's character in Reservoir Dogs, although it's never actually stated?

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Micheal J Fox as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future series

The film makers obviously agreed with you, seeing as they filmed 5 weeks worth of footage with Eric Stoltz in the role before giving him the boot and getting Fox instead

Now that you mention it

Eric Stoltz as the ginger one in Memphis Belle

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