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Dennis Quaid in
48 Hrs.?
Quaid was Turned Down For The Role Of Jack Cates.
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Jim Carrey in
A Beautiful Mind?
Carrey was the first choice for the lead, followed by Tom Cruise, then Russell Crowe.
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David Alan Grier in
Ace Ventura Pet Detective?
Jim Carrey reportedly asked Grier to play the role that Tone Loc played. David said it wasn't the direction he wanted to go at the time.
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Ewan McGregor in
Alien: Resurrection?
When Danny Boyle was on the project, he planned to cast Ewan McGregor as Vriess.
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Jared Leto in
American Beauty?
Leto actively campaigned for the Wes Bentley role.
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Patrick Swayze in
American Gigolo?
Patrick Swayze turned down the lead role.
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Damon Wayans in
Amistad?
Wayans reportedly auditioned for the role of Cinque, but was told he didn't look dark enough for the role.
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Michael Douglas in
Angel Heart?
Michael Douglas was considered for the role of Harry Parker.
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Virginia Madsen in
Basic Instinct?
After her sizzling role in "The Hot Spot," Virginia Madsen was supposedly the first actress to turn down Basic Instinct.
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Matt LeBlanc in
Batman & Robin?
Matt LeBlanc was reportedly considered for the role of Batman.
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Prince in
Batman Returns?
Prince was an early preference of Tim Burton's to play Robin under the condition that Robin was included in the film. He was not.
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Michael J. Fox in
Batman Returns?
Fox was an earlier preference to play Robin under the condition that Robin was included in the film. He was not.
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Jessica Simpson in
Bewitched?
Supposedly wanted the lead role that went to Nicole Kidman.
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Michael Keaton in
Big?
Considered for the role of Josh.
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Madonna in
Black Widow?
Madonna was considered for the role played by Theresa Russell.
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Jim Brown in
Blacula?
Jim Brown was considered for the lead role but turned it down.
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Robert Redford in
Bonnie and Clyde?
Redford was Considereed for the role of Clyde Barrow.
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Chris Tucker in
Booty Call?
Tucker was considered to play the lead role Bunz.
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Kevin Bacon in
Born on the Fourth of July?
Bacon was auditioned for the role of Ron Kovic.
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John Ritter in
Charlie's Angels?
Ritter was reportedle considered to play Bosley.
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Penelope Ann Miller in
Congo?
Penelope Ann Miller turned down the role that went to Laura Linney.
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Nick Cannon in
Crash?
According to a Z90 interview, Cannon was set for a role in the Oscar-winning film but turned it down.
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Kurt Russell in
Die Hard?
Kurt Russell turned down the lead role.
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Jamie King in
DOA: Dead or Alive?
Jamie King was considered for the role of Tina.
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Howard Stern in
Dogma?
Stern was offered the role of Cardinal Glick by Kevin Smith after he made Clerks and appeared on Stern's show. Stern's response was, "Kevin, I'm too big for your movies"
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Chevy Chase in
Dogma?
Was offered the Cardinal Glick role in Dogma after George Carlin originally turned the role down due to conflicting schedules.
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Michael Jackson in
Edward Scissorhands?
Jackson supposedly really wanted to play Edward.
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Jessica Lange in
Fatal Attraction?
Jessica Lange and Debra Winger were two of many stars who turned down the role of Alex in the Oscar nominated, FATAL ATTRACTION.
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Kevin Kline in
Fatal Attraction?
Kline was considered for the lead role but opted to do A Fish Called Wanda.
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Jim Carrey in
Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
According to wikipedia, Jim Carrey was considered for the role of Ferris Bueller.
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Sylvester Stallone in
Forrest Gump?
Sylvester Stallone was supposedly considered because he fit the description of "strong and slow speaking."
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Sylvester Stallone in
Get Shorty?
Stallone was reportedly considered to play Chili Palmer.
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John Travolta in
Good Will Hunting?
John Travolta reportedly turned down the part that eventually went to Robin Williams.
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Charlie Sheen in
Goodfellas?
Was considered for the role of Henry Hill.
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William Baldwin in
GoodFellas?
William Baldwin was Turned Down For The Role Of Henry Hill.
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Andy Garcia in
GoodFellas?
Garcia was Turned Down For The Role Of Henry Hill.
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Robert De Niro in
Heist?
De Niro reportedly read for the lead role but decided he didn't like parts of the script.
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Peter Sellers in
Help!?
Before the film became a Beatles vehicle, the Ringo Starr part was written with Peter Sellers in mind. Sellers turned it down.
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Chris Tucker in
How to Be a Player?
Chris Tucker was offered the lead role but turnd it down to do Rush Hour.
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Viggo Mortensen in
Inkheart?
His Agent turned down the offer of the role of "Dustfinger."
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Richard Dreyfuss in
Jumanji?
Dreyfuss was considered to play Alan.
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Sean Connery in
Jumanji?
Sean Connery was considered to play Alan.
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Kurt Russell in
Jumanji?
Russell was considered to play Alan.
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Patrick Swayze in
Lethal Weapon?
Patrick Swayze was considered for the role of Martin Riggs.
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Eric West in
Love Don't Cost a Thing?
Eric auditioned for a role in Love Don't Cost a Thing.
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Sean Connery in
Mindhunters?
Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Jake Harris.
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Meiling Melancon in
Mission: Impossible Iii?
Mei was considered for the Asian girl in Ethan Hunt's team.
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Kevin Costner in
Mississippi Burning?
Costner was considered for the role.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones in
Money Train?
Catherine auditionned for the role but was turned down.
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Audrey Hepburn in
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor?
Producers of this TV film thought Audrey Hepburn should be cast for this religious role, particularly because she did masterly in "the nun's story". Negotiations failed.
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Sarah Jessica Parker in
My Best Friend's Wedding?
Auditioned for the lead part and did not get it.
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John Belushi in
Once Upon a Time in America?
Belushi reportedly signed on to be in the film, but died before the film went into production.
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Terence Stamp in
Passionately?
He was considered for this film with Brigitte Bardot, by the end of the 60's, moment he decided to quit cinema for a decade, stationing in India.
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Tom Hanks in
Patriot Games?
Tom Hanks was apporached orginally about playing CIA agent Jack Ryan in patriot games.
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Kevin Costner in
Patriot Games?
Costner was considered for the role Jack Ryan.
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Dennis Quaid in
Philadelphia?
Quaid was considered for the role of Andrew Beckett.
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Joey Lawrence in
Poor White Trash?
Joey Lawrence was considered for the role of Brian, but producers were blown away by London's audition and gave him the part.
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Sylvester Stallone in
Pretty Woman?
Stallone was to play Edward in the first version of the script and it was called "$3000" and it was a darker story. When Gary Marshall signed on as director, the script moved closer to the finished, lighter/comedic version.
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Thandie Newton in
Queen of the Damned?
Newton was considered for the lead role but turned it down to do Mission: Impossible II.
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Keanu Reeves in
Rain Man?
Reeves was turned down for the role of Charlie.
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Charlie Sheen in
Rain Man?
Charlie Sheen was turned down for the role of Charlie.
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Denzel Washington in
Ray?
Washington was considered to play the lead role but turned it down.
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Terence Stamp in
Satyricon?
Federico Fellini chose him for the role of one of the Poets, after working with him in Tobby Damit. He declined.
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Stephen Dorff in
Scent of a Woman?
Offered a "more confrontational take" on character. Director went in another direction.
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Scott Speedman in
Scream 3?
Speedman reportedly turned down the part played by Dempsey.
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Colin Firth in
Shakespeare in Love?
Colin Firth was supposedly considered for the title role before playing Lord Wessex.
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Regina King in
Soul Food?
King was also considerd to play the youngest sister Bird.
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Halle Berry in
Soul Food?
Halle Berry was considered to play Teri the older sister.
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Madonna in
The Bodyguard?
Kevin Costner is apparently shown in Madonna's film Truth Or Dare saying it "wasn't going to work out."
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Robert Romanus in
The Breakfast Club?
He was offered the role of John Bender first,but he declined.
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Denzel Washington in
The Color Purple?
Washington was considered to play Harpo but opted to do A Soldier Story.
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Michael Douglas in
The Fugitive?
Michael Douglas was considered to play Richard Kimble.
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Matt Dillon in
The Girl Next Door?
Dillon was originally set to play a part in the film.
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Robert De Niro in
The Jackal?
Robert De Niro was considered for the role of Jackal.
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Sylvester Stallone in
The Jackal?
Stallone was reportedly considered for the role of Jackal.
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Peter Stormare in
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou?
Stormare was reportedly cast at one point to play Klaus, but had to drop out.
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Halle Berry in
The Matrix Revolutions?
Halle Berry was also considered to play Niobe but opted to play Catwoman.
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Thandie Newton in
The Matrix Revolutions?
Newton was considered to play Niobe.
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Juliette Binoche in
The Piano?
Binoche was reportedly considered for the role.
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Warren Beatty in
The Rock?
He was pursued for the part of John Mason but turned it down.
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Axl Rose in
The School of Rock?
Axl Rose was reportedly asked to appear in the School of Rock, along with the rest of Guns n Roses, as a band playing at the battle of the bands.
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Michael Douglas in
The Untouchables?
Michael Douglas was considered to play Eliot Ness.
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Richard Gere in
The Warriors?
Richard Gere was considered for the lead role.
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Stephen Dorff in
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar?
Dorff screentested in drag.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. in
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar?
Once auditioned for the role of Noxeema Jackson.
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Terry Gilliam in
True Romance?
Terry Gilliam was given the script by Tarantino. Gilliam found it to be a great script, but it was too much for his taste, and politely declined.
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Dan Aykroyd in
Vibes?
Akroyd bowed out of the film, and was replaced with Jeff Goldblum. Ironically, the character of Nick was written as a "Jeff Goldblum type".
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Tracey Ullman in
Vibes?
Ullman was originally tapped to play Sylvia Van Pickel; when she vacated the role, Cyndi Lauper was cast.
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Laurence Fishburne in
Waterworld?
Laurence Fishburne was considered for the role of Deacon. He declined.
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Kurt Russell in
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Kurt Russell was considered for the role of Eddie Valiant.
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Vince Vaughn in
X-Men?
Vaughn was reportedly in negotiations for the part of Scott Summers (Cyclops).
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