Potentially Disastrous Casting Near-Misses

Bette Midler in Misery.

Oh, lord....Tennant would have been so horrible.

Such a twitchy ham.

I didn't watch the series where Tennant played Dennis Nilsen. Was he as hammy as he usually is?

[quote] Oh, lord....Tennant would have been so horrible. Such a twitchy ham.

[quote] I didn't watch the series where Tennant played Dennis Nilsen. Was he as hammy as he usually is?

Ironically he did a credible effort as Ham-let with Patrick Stewart.

Annette Bening as Catwoman in "Batman Returns". I like her, and always have, but Pfeiffer took that part to places no one else could have.

Rue McClanahan as Rose Nylund, & Betty White as Blanche Devereaux. It wouldn't have beem disasterous, but it ultimately turned out for the best.

Travolta as Forrest Gump

Selleck as Indiana Jones

DiCaprio as Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho". I don't like him as an actor anyway (w/the exception of two films), but he would've ruined the film, rendering it unwatchable. Christian Bale has always been the better actor anyway.

Claudette Colbert as Margo Channing. Would have been a very different movie.

Errol Flynn and Bette Davis as Rhett and Scarlett.

Paula Abdul in Goddess. Can you imagine her in my show?

[quote] "Claudette Colbert as Margo Channing. Would have been a very different movie."

I'm as grateful for that skiing accident, as I am for Bening's pregnancy, R6!

Oh, let me add Gale Soundergaard as The Wicked Witch Of The West in "The Wizard Of Oz". I'm glad the characterization was changed from the initial glamorous treatment, to what finally appeared on film. Soundergaard was given "the ugly treatment", but bowed out. It wouldn't have worked at all.

Sacha Baron Cohen as Freddy Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody"!

Thank you, R8. It's posters like you that keep me coming back to DataLounge.

Remember when they had announced a Dallas feature film adaptation with John Travolta as JR and Jennifer Lopez as Sue Ellen. My guess is that eventually the studio decided to do the reboot series instead, and thank God. That movie would have probably made Depp's Dark Shadows look like Citizen Kane in comparison.

Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. Is that still happening?

That would've been a vastly different, and vastly more enjoyable film, Rami Malek @R10.

Kisses R11😘!

Yeah...I wish Cohen had played Freddie instead of that insufferable twit Rami Malek.

Brian May is a cunt who fought with Cohen because Cohen sensibly thought "no one cares about Brian May...the public only cares about Freddie Mercury"

I think Selleck could have played Indiana Jones but it wouldn't have become the classic it became....it would have just been another successful popcorn movie.

All About Eve would have beein ok with Colbert; after all, it had that terrific script, but Davis is a stronger more passionate actor. She has fire in her performances while Colbert was always an icier personality. Though Colbert and Anne Baxter looked more alike, I don't think that pairing would have had sizzle.

Also: Colbert is herself more of an Eve type than a Margo.

I agree that SBC would have much, much better than POS Rami Malek. Cohen was very open about not wanting to whitewash Freddie's lifestyle and do an interesting biopic. Sigh.

I will never understand why people thought “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a good movie. It was terrible. I don’t believe Freddie was that boring of a person and there wasn’t an actual story.

David Tennant, yech. Tennant is bro-ish and geeky and slightly irreverent which works for Doctor Who and Broadchurch and even Jessica Jones but not for Hannibal Lector who is decadent, affected Eurotrash.

Mikkelsen could not have been more perfect.

Uh..... (can't believe one of DL's fun facts hasn't been mentioned yet).....Kate Jackson instead of Meryl in Kramer Vs Kramer.

Tennant would not be the right choice to play Hannibal in the traditional all-powerful menacing supervillain style of Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins, and would certainly not have fit into the superslick hypersexualized Grahamter slash fic approach of "Hannibal" the series. To fit the Tennant persona and skill set you'd have to reimagine Lecter as a geeky scary clown villain in the tradition of Heath Ledger's Joker, Andrew Scott's Moriarty, and Tennant's own Kilgrave in "Jessica Jones."

Mads Mikkelsen is basically the 21st century Peter Lorre.

[Quote]Kate Jackson instead of Meryl in Kramer Vs Kramer.

I think Kate would've been perfect for the role. Meryl got damn lucky.

Rami was great as Mercury; those complaining here sound like they either have a problem with the script or with Rami personally.

Oh yeah right great performance this lol

Emma Thompson claims to have been offered Basic Instinct (!).

Greta Scacchi, Michelle Pfeiffer and Annette Bening would have been fine. But you can’t imagine anyone better than Sharon Stone. She goes from hot to cold on a dime, is unforcedly, naturally pretty and has style kind of sexuality where her smile with its hint of a sneer isn’t intimidating but enticing.

Michelle Pfeiffer, for instance, is mostly class. Rebecca De Mornay, mostly sleaze. Stone has the perfect combination of both.

Molly Ringwald and Pretty Woman.

Matthew McConaughey and Gwyneth Paltrow in Titanic.

[quote]Emma Thompson claims to have been offered Basic Instinct (!).

She's [italic]auditioned[/italic] for it. There's a difference, R27.

Billy Idol was James Cameron’s first choice to play the T-1000 in Terminator 2, but he badly broke his leg in a motorcycle accident before filming and couldn’t do all the running required for the role, so Robert Patrick was cast instead.

Billy may have been fine, but I can’t think of anyone doing it better than Patrick did. He had a cold stare and blank face like a cyborg. Good stuff.

Re; Basic Instinct. It was offered to just about every "A", "B", and "C" actress in Hollywood. Because of the interrogation (show pussy) scene, most refused to even meet. There was one actress who was strongly pursued before she finally turned it down, (again, because of that scene). It was Geena Davis.

Meanwhile, Sharon Stone's agent (or manager) was all over them pushing Stone. Finally, they relented and the rest is history.

P.S. Stone later claiming she had no idea they were filming her clit is full bullshit. She knew going in. (Or perhaps her agent completely lied to her!)

Being John Malkovich. Close to production, they still hadn't nailed down a contract and Malkovich was close to dropping out. Had that happened, it would have been Being Steve Buscemi.

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There might have actually been some nudity and simulated gay sex in SBC's version of Bohemian Rhapsody.

Mads is not my type normally but he exudes sex appeal. David Tennant is a good actor at times but he has the sex appeal of a praying mantis to me.

Burt Ward as THE GRADUATE

I have often found David Tennant too over the top and hammy, but his portrayal of Denis Nilsen was genuinely scary. He was very convincing as someone with a disastrously contorted emotional life, and banality in the midst of absolute carnage. He even got the accent right.

David Tennant is the worst Hamlet I've ever seen, and I've seen Ethan Hawke.

The crazy-ass Paramount executives wanted Robert Redford to play Michael Corleone and Laurence Olivier to play Vito. Coppola actually had to ponder making the Corleones northern Italians instead of Sicilians.

That's insane R39. Interesting.

Audrey Hepburn in The Exorcist.