People touted as the "next big thing"

Hayden Christensen

Taylor Kitsch

Taylor Lautner

Allison Doody? Was she the sister of Howdy?

Taylor Kitsch just turned out to be kitsch.

Gretchen Mol.

Balthazar Getty

Johnathon Schaech

Brandon Routh

Sam Worthington, Garrett Hedlund, Gemma Arterton, Kate Bosworth, Thora Birch, Linda Fiorentino, Lara Flynn Boyle, Kristin Kreuk, Chad Michael Murray, Mischa Barton, Rupert Evans, and Armie Hammer.

Dakota Fanning.

I can still hear that annoying screaming little girl in War of the Worlds. I kept begging the aliens to find her to make it stop.

Katie Holmes

Eric Bana and his banana.

Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Kwanten, Julia Ormond, Melina Kanakaredes, Molly Ringwald, Billy Crudup, Erika Christensen, Scott Caan, Minnie Driver.

I want to say Marcia Gay Harden and Virginia Madsen, fully aware of the Academy Award context.

Chris Evans

Chris Pine

Chris Pratt

Us

I like Chris, but Chris kinda creeps me out.

That smelly looking desperate bland bitch Jennifer Lawrence.

Jennifer Lawrence is a star, despite the fact that DLers hate her for no reason

Gary Hart

Armie Hammer

R9.. i so so hear you about dakota fanning in "war of the worlds'.. i was talking back to the screen saying "damn, leave her ass, she's annoying as hell!" lol! and spielberg directed her like this??

Chris O’Donnell

Brian J "me likey girls" Smith

Pia Zadora

Julia Ormond.

Logan Lerman

Everyone Gossip Girl actor not named Blake Lively

Everyone Gossip Girl actor not named Blake Lively

Zayn

Haley Joel Osment.

r18 No one ever leaves a star. That's what makes one a STAH!

Twinkothee Chalamet

Jean Dujardin.

Us

Allison Doody left acting and went to medical school. She is now a proctologist.

r34

You win the thread. But where's the pedo?

R18 She had her 15 minutes of stardom whatever years ago and made a shit load from it to boot. There's no buzz about her anymore.

Ivanka Trump

Hasn't Jack Gleeson also left acting, to focus on academia?

R36 Hanging low

Christ on a cracker R15, that was excruciating to watch.

Judd Nelson

Michael Biehn

Shia Labeouf

Skeet Ulrich

All the Cosby kids.

Nicole Scherzinger was supposed to be huge after Pussycat Dolls. I don't think she got a single solo hit in the US.

Jim Sturgess

Jude Law

Allison Doody was almost cast as Eowyn in Lord of the Rings. IF ONLY.

My contribution: Calista Flockhart. Ally McBeal took over the world, then nada.

Josh Hartnett

Sean Astin, Elijah Wood.

Brenton Thwaites

Nothing to do with the theme of the thread, but...

The Academy Awards ceremony that R15 posted, was Lucy’s final public appearance. She died one month later.

I'm still waiting.

Marcia Gay Harden was never the next big thing. She was destined for indie films and character parts. Television has actually given her more of a career than would have seemed evident when she started out.

Jeanne Tripplehorn.

Oh, forgot Lolita Davidovich.

The Spider-Man actors

Gretchen Mol.

Old Navy.

R45, this 2007 clip is the only thing I ever heard from her.

Jeremy Irvine

Dylan O Brian

Miss Chirs colfer

Gotye, Leona Lewis, Paloma Faith.

Ashanti.

Janet Jackson.

R60's clip brings up Ioann Gruffud. What the fuck happened there?

Bet Ioan Gruffudd is seething that Matthew Rhys made it.

Gruffud's wife told BBC back in 2017 that Weinstein approached her in Cannes and wanted to go to a bathroom and "kiss" her. She refused and according to her Weinstein said "we'll see how your husband's career goes" and he quit getting offers. After all the shit that's come out, I kind of believe her.

r67 Oh my god, is there a pie that pig DIDN'T have his gross fingers in?

Michael Fassbender & Alicia Viklander; they may just be off living their lives, but at one point, they seemed like the "next big thing" until both of them had successive bombs. Fassbender is a good actor & could still come back, but it appears her moment is over

R69 Vikander has struggled to follow up her excellent 2015 but she also has five projects primed for next year. You figure at least one will be good (the Gloria’s movie with Julianne Moore could be it). She’s a good actress who maybe had too much creative input in her films too soon.

I showed my willie. Pehaps I should present hole.

After Wicked Game came out, Chris Issak was called by some as ‘the next elvis’. Sadly, he didnt live up to that potential

Armie Hammer owns, rapes and murders this thread. One A-list project after the other and no one really notices him.

These people:

Grace Foster

Adina Howard.

Tea Leoni

Kamala Harris.

Iggy Azalea.

Klinton Spilsbury

Ashley Parker Angel

Beto O’Rourke.

Unmemorable ass.

Katharine McPhee

Yeah, they tried to push McPhee for years and America never really bit.

Fassbender's career slump is a combination of overexposure and bad personal habits: He drinks like a fish and it began showing in his face fairly early. Also, he only works in certain roles. You can't cast him as an everyman or as a standard romantic lead. He really only works as antiheroes and villains.

Vikander was Harvey's last protege, wasn't she? Because otherwise, it's impossible to explain why such a bland and mediocre actress had as much success as she did so quickly. It's the classic Weinstein pattern (see also Lawrence, Jennifer).

Why me?

Fairuza Ball

Allison Lohman

Heather Graham

Chlöe Grace Moretz

Normani - no one I know of has had such a media blitz around a single release and then....nothing

Remember when the three young stars of "American Beauty" was hyped as Hollywood's future when the movie came out in 1999. I wonder where they are now?

Thora Birch

Wes Bentley

Mena Suvari

Colton Haynes

r89

She's currently on two songs getting good radio play so she shouldn't be mentioned. She's doing pretty well considering Camila was supposed to be the only star of the group.

Gretchen Moll

Katherine Heigl

Matthew Goode

Kelly McGillis

LOL OP had to go back to ALLISON DOODY from 1989 for this?

OK BOOMER

[quote]Fairuza Ball

Granddaughter of Lucille. Niece of Suzann. You'd think with her connections she'd be a superstar.

Pete Buttigieg

r96

Yep he's going to down spiral just like Beto, Kamala and the others. Only unlike them, Pete won't recover. He's going to be replaced in South Bend and will leave politics.

Huh? If anything it's the opposite for Pete. He's MORE successful than most people would have predicted.

r92 but she was pushed like she was the next Beyonce..everywhere was Normani,Normani....then poof. She might be getting airplay but not really rising to the level of expectation.

Ansel Elgort and Alden Ehrenreich (sp?). At least according to Spielberg.

Ansel has a potato head and zero charisma and Alden is pretty forgettable.

Sarah Palin.

Lauryn Hill.

Jessie J

Rita Ora

Ofra Haza

Asslee Simpson.

Christina Ricci.

Hayden Panettiere.

Channing Tatum.

Gal Gadot.

Channing Tatim is a pretty big star

Everyone touted as the next Lucille Ball

I remember back when Xena was on her sidekick, the blonde chick, had a lot of buzz around her.

Garett Hedlund

I’m a little sad he’s not a bigger star- he’s hot.

Chloe Sevigny.

r96 & r97 clearly misunderstood the assignment. This is for celebs who were TOUTED as the Next Big Thing and, in hindsight - years or even decades later - haven't lived up to those high expectations. OP couldn't be clearer.

We have a Predictions thread for psychic bitches, if you want to play Kassandras.

Gretchen Mol and Armie Hammer are currently leading with three mentions each. 🤭

Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers

[quote]Allison Doody was almost cast as Eowyn in Lord of the Rings. IF ONLY.

The weird thing about this is that Peter Jackson was hellbent on casting her even though by the time the LOTR movies were actually happening, she had already seemingly aged out of the part - even though she was only about mid-30s she looked a lot older. I mean, I could have seen it back around the time of the Indiana Jones movie, but by the early 2000s...not.

I was the "it girl," for 5 minutes, anyway.

Anyone with the name "Doody" would never be a star.

Megan Fox

She was everywhere for a while but then Michael Bay publicly made her look like a spoiled, ungrateful little bitch and that ruined everything.

I bet Gretchen fucking hates getting Google Alerts and seeing her mentions are - yet again - only in relation to being a failed Next Big Thing. Who knew that stormy day on the beach and an unfortunate caption would haunt her for the rest of her life? 😄

r118 Seriously. Why not just change your name?

Haylie Duff.

Cassie

Tom Hiddleston.

I don’t have anyone to add - you all have it pretty much covered. I just wanted to say that every time I see the name Allison Doody I giggle, so that’s probably one reason why she never made it. Same with Imogen Poots...

Lest we forget.

Duffy and M. Knight Shymalan. Strange that Duffy never made it as big as everyone said she would.

Olivia Williams. She was Miss Cross in Rushmore and played Bruce Willis’ wife in The Sixth Sense.

Jason Lewis

Tom Welling (I couldn't even remember his name, had to Google "Smallville)

Leona Lewis

Josh Hartnett

Jennilee Harrison

Samantha Mumba

Markle

Little Marco

Lying Crus

Low energy Jeb

Cody old man face Simpson

Madonna as an actress after Desperately Seeking Susan.

Cyndi Lauper as a long-term pop star after "She's So Unusual".

Christina Ricci after "The Opposite of Sex".

Lindsay Lohan after "Mean Girls".

Shia LeBouf during sometime, I don't remember exactly.

r137 Madonna was great in Spike Lee's Girl 6

R138, Madonna was also great in Dangerous Game. And she looks great in both movies.

Josh Hutcherson

Lin Manuel Miranda, after Hamilton. Why... ?

Matthias Schoenaerts was supposed to be the next Deniro or DiCaprio... no, even BIGGER because he spoke so many languages. He was an INTERNATIONAL star. He was even offered the role of batman and only after he turned it down, they went for Affleck.

^he shows cock a lot, so I don’t care if he never gets to be a huge star. Keep showing that dong, Matthias!

Most of the top winners of America's Got Talent with a very few exceptions. What happened?

r144

And most winners on The Voice, Idol, X-Factor, etc.

Pretty much everyone on The Voice and America's Next Top Model

Does anyone remember Who Is Fancy? There was this whole viral campaign where his identity was hidden and it got people talking. Then there was a huge reveal of who he was and he even got a collab with Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor.

Where is he now?

Jack O’Connell. Where’d that guy go?

Us....

Each cast of each generation of Skins UK! Dave Patel, Nicholas Hoult, Joe dempsie, Freya Mavor and Hannah Murray are doing fine but what about the others who stood out to be the next best thing? especially that gay guy Mitch Hewer? He was in that flop "Britannia High" and then... nothing. Kaya was the fan favourite and thought to have the biggest career. She was the only one brought back 3 times!! FFS!! Jack O'Connell? Luke Pasqualino? Lily Lovless? I even expected more from Sebastian de Souza.

Daniel Radcliffe does indie movies no one sees, much like fellow hobbit Elijah Wood.

R126, supposedly Duffy had a #metoo incident that derailed her career trajectory. She has a healthy hatred of the music industry.

Andrew Garfield.

Kamala

I can't imagine anyone thought Radcliffe was the next big thing, considering it's hard to see him as anyone by Harry Potter. The fact that he's still working in film & theater seems admirable, since he could be sitting back getting high everyday & spending his HD money.

I argue that Angelina Jolie is another one - granted, she's a celebrity and a Meghan Markle type before MM became a thing, but I don't know that she ever became the actress that people thought she would be when she overshadowed it girl Winona Ryder in Girl Interrupted.