Are There Truly Roles that You Can’t Recast?

[Drizzle]

The other choices for Han are bizarre though.

Kurt Russell is the only other actor I could have seen playing Han. Jack Burton probably isn't too far off from how Russell would have played it.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Man with No Name was recast in millions of spaghetti westerns. Some where even good!

Hey, when it comes to spaghetti westerns, like sex and pizza, even the bad ones were good!

 

[Eddie Dean]

Al Pacino’s Han Solo would’ve been quite something.

It's called Poe Dameron!

I do think Selleck fits as Indy though. I've always been able to see that. The other choices for Han are bizarre though.

I can easily picture James Caan. Nolte too. Burt Reynolds would have been good, but way too big of a star.

 

[Wheels]

I could easily see Michael Keaton as John McClane.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Ripley

I also wonder if Terminator 1-2 worked just as well without Arnie as T-800. If there was some other actor in his place.

 

[StarLord]

I could easily see Michael Keaton as John McClane.

You mean now?

 

[Eddie Dean]

I can see someone else as the T-800, but I doubt we'd have T2, if say, Cameron's original choice of Lance Henrickson was The Terminator.

And that's a role they seem immune to reboot casting for sure.

 

[Wheels]

You mean now?

No back then. It's just to give examples that I could see other actors give a similar performance so I don't have problems seeing it with other actors. Kurt Russell as Han is another example that was pointed out. The issue with recasting is usually familiarity more than anything.

 

[Fincher]

I don't think someone else being able to play the role at the time and someone being able to play the role after they've defined it are the same thing, though. Kurt Russell as Han Solo might have had its own internal logic back in the day, but that doesn't mean Kurt could sub in for Harrison Ford now that he wants out.

 

[Wheels]

I don't think someone else being able to play the role at the time and someone being able to play the role after they've defined it are the same thing, though. Kurt Russell as Han Solo might have had its own internal logic back in the day, but that doesn't mean Kurt could sub in for Harrison Ford now that he wants out.

No, but that's more of us as the audience being used to Ford than every other actor on the planet not fitting the part.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

I don't think any other shark than Bruce could play the shark in Jaws.

Funny you mentioning Jaws, I was not thinking of the actual shark but was going to say I hope Hollywood never reboots, refilms or replans Jaws.

Robert Shaw as Quint has spot in my heart all these years. I , personally, cant ever see anyone else playing that character again.

 

[SameOG86]

Robert Englund as Freddy

 

[Wheels]

Robert Englund as Freddy

Nah it can be done. I lovvvve me some Robert Englund Freddy though he's so far and away the best slasher villian. Most creative slasher franchise to me too. Scream is more consistant as a franchise but it isn't on NIghtmare 1 or 3's level. Sorry Scream peeps.

 

[SameOG86]

Nah it can be done. I lovvvve me some Robert Englund Freddy though he's so far and away the best slasher villian. Most creative slasher franchise to me too. Scream is more consistant as a franchise but it isn't on NIghtmare 1 or 3's level. Sorry Scream peeps.

Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is very underrated. Not to mention I feel like his make up looks the best in that movie.

 

[SameOG86]

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

 

[Boom]

Ian McKellen as Gandalf would be a tough one.

 

[Schlosser85]

Ian McKellen as Gandalf would be a tough one.

Christopher Lee originally wanted to play Gandalf but they thought he was a better fit for Saruman (which I agree with).

Apparently at some point they tried to get Sean Connery to audition but he refused to come out of retirement, and John Astin auditioned, because Sean Astin wrote in his memoirs of the making of it about "that awkward time when you have to tell your dad he didn't get the part in The Lord of the Rings".

Totally agree McKellen was the best choice though.

 

[SameOG86]

Michael J Fox & Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future

 

[SameOG86]

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura

 

[SameOG86]

Mel Gibson & Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon

 

[SameOG86]

Will Smith & Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I don't know who else here was around when Connery stepped down as Bond but it was a massive thing. Many people thought it was impossible, that the franchise would end. It's difficult to overstate how big a thing that was - if there'd been an internet it would have well and truly 'broken'. Connery was Bond. Of course Bond continued, and we've had some great portrayals since then.

There have been many iconic cinema performances over the years, but the Bond/Connery situation tells me that any role can be recast.

 

[Schlosser85]

There was also a lot of "nobody can ever be a better Joker than Nicholson!".

 

[Drizzle]

There was also a lot of "nobody can ever be a better Joker than Nicholson!".

I remember those people, along with the outcry after Ledger was cast in TDK. Let's face facts, Jack's Joker is still pretty awesome, but at the end of the day it's still Jack playing Jack.

Ledger's casting is probably the only time I remember there being some divisiveness upon a casting announcement which turned into unanimous praise once they saw him in the role. I thought he was a left field choice when he was cast but I trusted Nolan since he hit it out of the ballpark with Batman Begins. I kept an open mind but I was sold the instant I saw him in the first theatrical trailer for the movie. Even people who didn't like the movie still praised Ledger's Joker. Without him, The Dark Knight still would have been successful, but I don't think it would have been the juggernaut that it became.

 

[Schlosser85]

I remember those people, along with the outcry after Ledger was cast in TDK. Let's face facts, Jack's Joker is still pretty awesome, but at the end of the day it's still Jack playing Jack.

Ledger's casting is probably the only time I remember there being some divisiveness upon a casting announcement which turned into unanimous praise once they saw him in the role. I thought he was a left field choice when he was cast but I trusted Nolan since he hit it out of the ballpark with Batman Begins. I kept an open mind but I was sold the instant I saw him in the first theatrical trailer for the movie. Even people who didn't like the movie still praised Ledger's Joker. Without him, The Dark Knight still would have been successful, but I don't think it would have been the juggernaut that it became.

I'll admit, I was "wut" when I heard Ledger was gonna be Joker and for the life of me I couldn't see it at all.