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A fun minor pop culture divergence, via How Did This Get Made.

IOTL both Tom Cruise & Johnny Depp were considered (although I can't imagine either would have said yes), Brandon Lee was going to do it before his death, Jean-Claude Van Damme passed to do Street Fighter, and Cameron Diaz was actually filming it when she broke her wrist and had to bow out.

The simplest possible POD on this one is that Brandon Lee lives ITTL, thus causing enough butterflies for Diaz not to break her wrist.

The movie was a solid hit IOTL, grossing one hundred twenty million dollars on a eighteen million budget, even after everything in Hollywood that's thirty to sixty million in profit. ITTL the movie has a better cast and gets marginally better reviews and let's say an extra ~ten twenty whatever million dollars, basically a moderately bigger hit.

So what happens next?

Brandon Lee is alive and coming off another hit movie, he probably has some interesting possibilities. Diaz gets a second hit in a row after The Mask, does she stick with major films or does she repeat OTL and do smaller projects? If the second film can be pulled off successfully then perhaps there's a whole franchise to be built? Butterflies on other video game films?
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