TV and Movies: What could have been

Michelle Pfeiffer

Pretty Woman: What if Meg Ryan or Daryl Hannah was Vivian Ward instead of Julia Roberts?

I heard that Michelle Pfeiffer turned down that role as well. I could definitely see her in that role. She would look good in that outfit and those boots. Daryl Hannah would have, too, but she turned down the role because she thought it was degrading to women.
 
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Quote "I wonder why the show "Freaks and Geeks" didn't last longer than one season. I thought it was great". Quote

Yes, that was a pretty good show. I wondered what would have became of the main characters by their senior years. Maybe we would have seen "Freaks and Geeks, the college years" by 2004.

* A freind of mine lived in San Francisco in the '70s. He tended bar at a place owned by the head of the local branch of SAG. Andy Robinson frequented the place and my freind got to know him. It turned out he regretted taking the role in Dirty Harry as it type casted him.

I didn't know that. I remember him as a detective in the movie Cobra with Sly Stallone in 1986. He played a by-the-book cop who didn't agree with Stallone's vigilante methods. Besides that, I don't remember seeing him in anything else.

Also, I heard of a show named "California Fever" with Jimmy McNichol(Kristy's older brother) that came out on CBS in 1979. However, it bombed, only lasting about three months. I was thinking, what if they would have had that show on another network, like ABC, around 1977, and had it be a little more realistic(in the 79 show, the characters were teens, but you never saw their parents, and you never saw them go to school at all) but with the same premise that the 79 show had(cars, the beach, girls, disco, etc..)?

Also:
1. What if Saturday Night Fever flops? Does disco die earlier?
2. What if Mickey Rooney played Archie in All in the Family instead of Carroll O'Connor? Also, what if Harrison Ford didn't turn down the role as Mike "Meathead" Stivic because he thought Archie's bigotry was too offensive?
3. What if Dennis Quaid would have gotten the part of Luke Duke in the Dukes of Hazzard instead of Tom Wopat?
4. In the movie Police Academy, what if Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, or Judge Reinhold would have played the part of Mahoney? Also, what if Motormouth Jones wouldn't have been in the film(his character, played by Michael Winslow, wasn't in the original script).
 
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What if the makers of Lost went with their original plan of having Michael Keaton play Jack, pushing him as the protagonist in ads, then killing him off in the pilot episode and turning Kate into the unofficial "hero" of the show?

What if either the WB or UPN was able to become the fifth major network?

What if NBC went bankrupt in the early '80s? (taken from another thread that I started)

What if American Idol was a flop?
 
George Lucas wanted to cast a Japanese actor (whose name escapes me) for the role of Obi-Wan, but the executives turned it down, because they wanted a bigger star (Alec Guiness) for the role. If that went through, who would play Obi-Wan for the prequels?
 
Charles Bronson

I was watching Death Wish on AMC, so, here are a few for Bronson:

1. What if Charles Bronson would have starred in A Fistful of Dollars instead of Clint Eastwood?
2. What if Bronson would have been Snake Plissken instead of Kurt Russell in Escape From New York?
3. He was considered for Gene Hackman's role in The French Connection. What if he would have gotten that role?
 
Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones instead of HF (I've seen artwork)
How do you get him out of "Magnum"?

What about when Gene retooled STTOS after NBC rejected "The Cage", he'd made over Spock & cast (say) Dihann Carroll as "T'Vok" in Majel's role (more/less Sulu/Riker), with Majel as Science Officer?

What if Sarah Michelle Gellar had played Cordelia, instead? (Was Charisma up for Buffy?)

What if Fred Williamson had made "Magnum Force"? IIRC, it was written for him. Or Clint had turned it down?

What if Thelma Todd didn't die? What would she have done next?

What if Marilyn didn't die? (Nudity alert!) IIRC, "Something's Got to Give" featured her first nude scene. Porno actress?:eek::cool:
What if Dennis Quaid would have gotten the part of Luke Duke in the Dukes of Hazzard instead of Tom Wopat?
We'd be asking, "Dennis who?":D

What if Dennis Franz said, "I don't want to play a 28th cop" when Bochco offered him "NYPD Blue"?:eek::eek:
 
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How do you get him out of "Magnum"?

Well, he did star in "Quigly Down Under" and "Lassiter" about a gentleman thief, during the period.

Other TV/Movie choices:

John Wayne for Gunsmoke (he was offered the role but recommended James Arness)

Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando for Deliverance

Will Smith for The Matrix

Cary Grant as James Bond

Steve McQueen in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (turned it down because Paul Newman wouldn't give him top billing :eek:)

Sean Connery as Gandalf (turned it down because he'd never read LOTR and "Didn't understand the script")

Burt Reynolds as Randall Patrick McMurphy in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Goldie Hawn and Cher as THELMA and LOUISE

Gene Hackman as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

And who could forget that Pierce Brosnan was the original choice to replace Roger Moore (but his contract to play "Remington Steele" forced him to nix the idea of playing Bond for the next ten years).
 
Magnum Force

What if Fred Williamson had made "Magnum Force"? IIRC, it was written for him. Or Clint had turned it down?

Well, if that happened, there probably wouldn't have been an Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool. "Go Ahead, make my Day" would be butterflied away. We would probably be asking "What if Eastwood would have made sequels to Dirty Harry".

Here is another one:
What if James Dean and River Phoenix didn't die young?
 
James Dean might have gotten some of Paul Newman or Steve McQueen's later roles. That would have been interesting...

River Phoenix would probably be like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt today.
 

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What if Lost was any good as opposed to the contrived and derivative pile of steaming excrement it is?

Same goes for the revamped BSG.
 
Dean

James Dean might have gotten some of Paul Newman or Steve McQueen's later roles. That would have been interesting...

Maybe Jimmy would have ended up playing McQueen's role in the movie Getaway(1972) with Ali McGraw, or, he may have been in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Easy Rider.

Speaking of Steve McQueen, he could have been Rambo. He wanted to do the role, but, after his death in 1980, they gave it to Sly Stallone. He also would have did "Quigley Down Under" because it was written for him, but, for the obvious, they ended up using Tom Selleck in that role.
 
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