Fri 21 Mar 2008
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Hollywood actors with ‘heat’ get offered lots of big roles in big budget movies. For various reasons, actors turn down roles in movies that go on to become huge hits, artistic triumphs and eight-figure paying franchises.
Glamorati has a list of actors and the hit movie roles they turned down. While some of the missed opportunities are already Hollywood legend, there’s plenty here that may surprise you, or disappoint you, particularly if you believe that Mel Gibson would have made a better Maximus in Gladiator than Russell Crowe.
Imagine these movies with these actors in the lead roles :
Pretty Woman starring Molly Ringwald.
Platoon starring Keanu Reeves.
Misery starring Warren Beatty
Thelma And Louise starring Jodie Foster and Michelle Pfeiffer
The Matrix starring Will Smith
Basic Instinct starring Julia Roberts.
Donnie Brasco starring Tom Cruise.
Forrest Gump starring John Travolta.
In the comments at Glamorati, the claim is made that Dirty Harry was originally written for John Wayne, who then turned it down. Wow.
Imagine “a man has got to know his limitations” and “…do you feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?” growling out of the mouth of John Wayne.
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