Original actors cast for a role

[Milkyway]

Many actors were originally cast or considered for a role... what could have been

Some Mothers do 'av 'em:
Frank Spencer...
Ronnie Barker
Norman Wisdom
David Jason

Dad's Army:
Lance Corporal Jones: David Jason

Till death do us part:
Alf Garnett...
Peter Sellers
Leo McKern ( Rumpole).

Porridge:
Godber: Paul Henry (Benny in Crossroads)

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 25th August 21:36

[Wacky Racer]

Mrs Peel (The Avengers)

Elizabeth Shepherd

[Warhavernet]

Cicely Courtneidge played Stan's Mum in the first series of On The Buses, Doris Hare replaced her for the rest of the run.

[Sebring440]

Wacky Racer said:

Mrs Peel (The Avengers)

Elizabeth Shepherd

She filmed two episodes as well, before the producers decided she wasn't suitable for the part.

[Wacky Racer]

Sebring440 said:

Wacky Racer said:

Mrs Peel (The Avengers)

Elizabeth Shepherd

She filmed two episodes as well, before the producers decided she wasn't suitable for the part.

The town of no return was originally shot between 29 October to 13 November 1964 with Elizabeth Shepherd.

However, the producers decided that she was not right for the role and replaced her with Diana Rigg. The episode was re-shot sometime between 21 July and 30 July 1965

[TGCOTF-dewey]

The predator...jean Claude VD.

[Radec]

Eric Stoltz - Back to the future

[Milkyway]

Mrs Doubtfire.
Warren Beatty
Tim Allen

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 25th August 23:29

[snuffy]

Im fairly sure that Del Boy was originally going to be Jim Broadbent (who of course appeared later as Raquel"s husband Roy Slater).

[InductionRoar]

Jonathan Creek

Nicholas Lyndhurst
Rik Mayall

[JoshSm]

Radec said:

Eric Stoltz - Back to the future

Hes still in quite a few shots that made it to the final film. They'd filmed quite a lot by the time he was replaced and for various reasons didn't always use the reshoot for the final edit.

Jennifer was recast at the same time as Marty as there was a big height difference once they swapped the leads.

[JoshSm]

Apocalypse Now - Harvey Keitel was replaced by Martin Sheen during production.

Army of the Dead - they hacked out Chris D'Elia to use Tig Notaro after it was finished.

All the Money in the World - reshot very late on to replace Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer

[SlimJim16v]

Will Smith - Neo
Sylvester Stallone - Axel Foley
Eric Stoltz - Marty McFly
Dougray Scott - Wolverine

There was a long list of actors considered for Mrs Doubtfire, with Arnie being one.

[Risonax]

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Who?

[biggbn]

Im sure Burt Reynolds was meant to play Jack Nicholson's character in Terms of Endearment...and Tom Selleck was down for Indiana Jones?

[Lo-Fi]

biggbn said:

Im sure Burt Reynolds was meant to play Jack Nicholson's character in Terms of Endearment...and Tom Selleck was down for Indiana Jones?

I read recently that Burt was the original choice to play Han Solo. He turned it down.

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Lo-Fi said:

biggbn said:

Im sure Burt Reynolds was meant to play Jack Nicholson's character in Terms of Endearment...and Tom Selleck was down for Indiana Jones?

I read recently that Burt was the original choice to play Han Solo. He turned it down.

The moustache shot first.

Edited by TGCOTF-dewey on Wednesday 27th August 07:48

[jingars]

TGCOTF-dewey said:

Lo-Fi said:

biggbn said:

Im sure Burt Reynolds was meant to play Jack Nicholson's character in Terms of Endearment...and Tom Selleck was down for Indiana Jones?

I read recently that Burt was the original choice to play Han Solo. He turned it down.

The moustache st first.

1977 was the year of Smokey & The Bandit, so Burt was a good looking guy at that time.
That written, whilst Reynolds is "only" six years older than Harrison Ford, the thought of him snogging Carrie Fisher is just creepy.
Yet boning Sally Field seems just fine - indeed admirable!

[Milkyway]

Die Hard: Contractually, Frank Sinatra had to be offered first refusal... a seventy year old John McClane

Arnie & Sly turned the role down... those air conditioning ducts would have been a tight squeeze.

Edited by Milkyway on Tuesday 26th August 20:42

[entropy]

JoshSm said:

Radec said:

Eric Stoltz - Back to the future

Hes still in quite a few shots that made it to the final film. They'd filmed quite a lot by the time he was replaced and for various reasons didn't always use the reshoot for the final edit.

Jennifer was recast at the same time as Marty as there was a big height difference once they swapped the leads.

Michael J Fox was originally cast for the film but was persuaded to hire Eric Stolz due to the latter's performance in 'Mask'.

Another fun BTTF fact: Crispin Glover was supposed to be in Part 2 but fell out with Zemeckis.