The Bus

Best: Clive Owen as Bond. (Don't know how far that got).

onitapgr

Here's some fun ones:

good:
Sean Connery as Philip (Val Kilmer) in Alexander
Sean Connery as Nigel Powers in Goldmember
Jeff Daniels as Lester in American Beauty
John Lithgow as Doc in Back to the Future
Brad Dourif as the Riddler in Batman Forever
Chris Farley as Shrek
Bill Murray as Forrest Gump
Alec Guinness as Gandhi
Warren Beatty or Kevin Costner as Bill in Kill Bill
Sandra Bullock as the Hilary Swank role in Million Dollar Baby
Michelle Pfeiffer as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction
Paul Newman as Max Cherry in Jackie Brown

bad:
Ewan McGregor as Neo in the Matrix
Tom Cruise as Edward Scissorhands
John Travolta as Jim Morrison in the Doors
Adam Sandler as the Jamie Foxx character in Collateral
Nicolas Cage, Emilio Estevez, John Cusack in the Judd Nelson role in the Breakfast Club
LL Cool J as Blade
Marilyn Manson as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins
Ashton Kutcher as Batman in Batman Begins
Robin Williams as the Joker in Batman
Jim Carrey as Howard Hughes in the Aviator
Jim Carrey as the lead in Phone Booth
Jean Claude Van Damme as the Predator from Predator
Arnold Schwarzenegger as John McClane
Burt Reynolds as John McClane
Richard Gere as John McClane
Freddie Prinze Jr as Spiderman
Barry Manilow as Ted Stryker from Airplane!

GrimTangent

From IMDb's trivia page for Midnight Cowboy:

Tarantino

Wasn't OJ Simpson supposed to have a role in Terminator? That would have been a disaster.

= J

Mondo Kane

Are you sure you don't have this confused with Dracula? Bela Lugosi did a screentest as the monster, but later refused the part.
Chaney was set to play Dracula (Which came first) but died suddenly.

Others I would've liked to see:

Gregory Peck as Will Kane in High Noon
David Bowie as The Acid Queen in Tommy
Tim Roth as Johnny Rotten in Sid and Nancy
Cary Grant as Maj. Shears in Bridge on the River Kwai
Kevin Kline as Peter Pan in Hook

And I still wish Richard Castellano would've returned as Clemenza for Godfather II

Hokeyboy

Stephen Hawking could kick his ass.

Sunday Morning

Truer words have never been spoken.

He's miscast in anything where he isn't playing a slacker type. That's how small his range is. When he was nominated a few years ago for best supporting actor I almost had to vomit. Denzel Washington's performance was so big that it actually made Ethan Hawke look credible (at least for the academy)

It sure is a strange world out there, Sandy.

Sunday Morning

And whoever thought it was a good idea for Paul Newman to be considered for Max Cherry in Jackie Brown should be shot. Dead. Imagine Paul Newman, arguably the whitest of big old hollywood stars still living listening to soul music and kissing Pam Grier. Cringe.

MASAMUNE2

Pauly Shore as the Terminator

Groucho

Urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/reagan.asp

Rypro 525

Didn't one of the Weinstein brothers want britney spears or madonna in the roxie hart role of chicago (talk about potential disaster)

Legolas

Kevin Costner was going to be Jack Ryan in The Hunt For Red October, but did Dances With Wolves instead. Supposedly, Air Force One was his role that he passed onto Harrison Ford.

Lori Petty was fired from Demolition Man and replaced with Sandra Bullock.

Sean Young either got pregnant or injured herself before Batman and was replaced by Kim Basinger.

Annette Bening got pregnant before Batman Returns and was replaced by Michelle Pfeiffer.

Mission: Impossible 2 shooting went long, so Dougray Scott was pulled from X-Men and replaced by Hugh Jackman.

Val Kilmer had Mark Ruffalo's role in Collateral, but his Alexander commitment conflicted.

Matt Damon couldn't play Colin Farrell's Minority Report role because of a schedule conflict.


He was considered. They wanted Arnold to play Reese. But they felt that OJ wouldn't be believable as a killer.

conscience

I thought that would have been cool to see. Gladly, he didn't take the role. The movie was garbage.

rw2516

Well, I knew it was one of the two roles. Always thought it was Frank because of the make-up involved.

reubs82

Wasn't Ralph Macchio up for the role of Marty McFly? I think MJF was great in that role, but in the realm of bad career moves passing on the BTTF series was a mistake, Danielson.

BTW, where do y'all get all of this info from? Some pretty fascinating stuff.

tdilia

French Connection: Peter Boyle instead of Gene Hackman
Cuckoo's Nest: James Caan instead of Jack (don't think so)

Johnny Boy

Worst:
Will Smith instead of Keanu Reeves as Neo.
Jean Claude Van Dame (instead of the really tall guy) as the Predator.

Best:
Winona Ryder instead of Sophia Coppola as Mary Corleone.

Joe Molotov

....oh wait, you were serious.