Alternate castings in Film/TV that could've been?

[overoceans]

And I forgot to reply to this...

Sibel Kekilli, best known from Games and Thrones, did a fair bit of porn. And according to IMDB she even appeared in the German Sesamestreet.

Sibel Kekilli | Actress

Known for: Head-On, When We Leave, Game of Thrones

www.imdb.com

Thanks for the info about Kekilli. Thing is, though, Harry Reems was probably one of the most recognized porn stars of his day, and almost certainly THE most recognized of the male stars(Deep Throat was wildly famous, and Reems himself had been tried in court for obscenity). And he woulda been going straight from THAT notoriety into a musical that the studio was expecting kids to go see with their parents.

Interesting to speculate what would have happened to Grease's reputation had they gone with Reems, and then shortly thereafter, you've got Linda Lovelace all over the media saying that every sex scene in Deep Throat is just her being raped.

 

[Cheddar Man]

Star Trek Deep Space 9:

-Alexander Sidding was originally slated to be cast as Commander Sisko, but was turned down because he was too young for the role. While Sidding was great as Bashir, I don't think he would've worked as Sisko, and I'm not really sure why he was considered in the first place.
Interestingly enough, Peter Capaldi was one of the actors that auditioned for the role before production started.

-Michelle Forbes was supposed to reprise her role as Ro Laren, but she was unavailable at the time.

-Famke Janssen turned down the role of Jadzia Dax.

-Andrew Robinson, who was ultimately cast as Garak, was originally considered for the role of Odo.

 

[nathanael1234]

Will smith turned down the role of Django in Django Unchained because he could not see eye to eye with Quentin Tarantino about the films direction as Will wanted it to be a love story while Tarantino wanted it to be a Vengeance story.

 

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Will smith turned down the role of Django in Django Unchained because he could not see eye to eye with Quentin Tarantino about the films direction as Will wanted it to be a love story while Tarantino wanted it to be a Vengeance story.

In that case it was clear that Will hadn't watched any of the originals starring Franco Nero!

(Spoiler Alert)

Franco does a cameo opposite Leo in the infamous Negro v Negro fight scene!

 

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

-Andrew Robinson, who was ultimately cast as Garak, was originally considered for the role of Odo.

Loved Robinson as Garak.

A very underrated actor.

Got offed by Clint in 'Dirty Harry', says the immortal line "Jesus Wept!" in 'Hellraiser' before getting horse drawn and quartered and plays opposite Reni Santoni (again) in 'Cobra'

 

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

How about Sly Stallone in 'Beverley Hills Cop'

I wonder how that would've fared?

He was the original to play the part but left aster the studio wanted a more comedic performance which Eddie Murphy gratefully stepped in to do.

 

[Finn Morgendorffer]

Star Trek Deep Space 9:

-Alexander Sidding was originally slated to be cast as Commander Sisko, but was turned down because he was too young for the role. While Sidding was great as Bashir, I don't think he would've worked as Sisko, and I'm not really sure why he was considered in the first place.

They had seen him in the TV movie A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, where he played an older character, and didn't know he was as young as he was until they met him.

 

[Fries]

The Beatles almost cameo'd in The Jungle Book as Buzzie, Flaps, Ziggy, and Dizzy, the four vultures. Instead, they were voiced by J. Pat O'Malley, Digby Wolfe, Lord Tim Hudson, and Chat Stuart.

 

[AltSptHst]

John Travolta also turned down Days of Heaven, American Gigolo, and An Officer And a Gentleman, which helped Richard Gere's career, as he starred in all three...

Apparently, John Travolta also auditioned for Gere's eventual role (Edward Lewis) in Pretty Woman.

There were a lot of people connected to that movie and the two title roles, BTW (Molly Ringwald, Christopher Reeve, Meg Ryan, Sylvester Stallone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Al Pacino, etc...):

Pretty Woman (1990) - Trivia - IMDb

Pretty Woman (1990) - Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more...

www.imdb.com

 

[THeaven]

Robert Redford and Emma Thompson were going to star in The American President

 

[cortz#9]

Sean Connery, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, George Peppard, Rod Taylor, Burt Lancaster, James Garner, Rock Hudson, Gregory Peck, Cliff Robertson, Stuart Whitman and John Wayne were considered for the role of Taylor in "Planet of the Apes".
Charlton Heston was always producer Arthur P. Jacobs' first choice for the part, with Marlon Brando being considered as a back-up possibility.


The producers considered Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch and Angelique Pettyjohn for the role of Nova, but they were either unavailable or uninterested.
Julie Harris was offered the role of Zira. While she liked the concept, she didn't think she could work with the make-up and turned it down.

Angelique Pettyjohn as Nova.
At this point in production the idea of the female humans going around topless as portrayed in the novel was considered but then rejected to avoid the ratings hassle that would've occurred.
Pity.

Yul Brynner, José Ferrer, Alec Guinness, Edmond O'Brien, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov and Orson Welles were considered for Dr Zaius.
Jonathan Harris turned down the role of Dr Maximus.

John Wayne as Taylor would've been interesting to say the least.