Movies What character in a movie could have been great, but the actor they cast didn’t fit the role?

[Batjester]

I heard the Amazon Prime series about Reacher was pretty good and well cast.

The casting for the TV Reacher is about as perfect as it gets.

 

[herpd807]

Definitely Brie Larson as captain Marvel.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

It was supposed to be Lance Henrickson.

For real? That could work.

 

[Deleted member 592570]

For real? That could work.

Get your hands on the DVD, it's got some great extras.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Get your hands on the DVD, it's got some great extras.

Honestly, that would have been a better choice as far as canon goes. The Terminators were supposed to imitate humans to infiltrate their ranks. A giant, muscular Austrian may stand out a bit.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Yeah, the thing with movies that contain big plot twists is that it's super hard for an alternate version to pack the same punch as the original. Once the cat is out of the bag, you'll never affect the audience in the same way.

I sometimes dream of an alternate timeline where Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott didn't hate each other and made a trilogy of Phillip K. Dick sci-fi movies to stand alongside Harrison's Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Jack Ryan trilogies.

It would go:
Blade Runner (1982)
Total Recall (1990)
Minority Report (2002)

The movies aren't about the same characters (or even the same world), but would be linked thematically and visually instead as explorations of human consciousness, memory, reality and dystopian futures.

It's not that I don't like the versions of Minority Report and Total Recall that we actually got. I would just have loved to see what Ridley and Harrison could have done with the same material, conceived as parts of a coherent trilogy.

The problem I spose is really Scott was not the same director by that point, he'd had a lot of the ambition kicked out of him by Hollywood and was making good looking but rathtr more generic cinema.

I think Verhoeven's work did get rather underrated at the time, its not really morally or dramatically complex but then again it doesnt really need to be. I think besides the entertainment what makes it stand out is how savage it is in its criticism of the US establishment, that colonialism capitalism is shown as so totally evil and corrupt. I suspect Dick himself probably would have enjoyed Total Recall for that reason even if its a significant jump from his own style.

 

[Substance Abuse]

Both Katie Holmes in Batman Begins and Maggie Gyllenhall in The Dark Knight.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is so ugly that it took suspension of disbelief to believe that Bruce Wayne was into her. At least Katie Holmes was cute and at the time had an amazing rack (the Gift, indeed).

 

[Substance Abuse]

Di Caprio in Gangs of New York is really bad.

Cameron Diaz is worse.

 

[Deleted member 592570]

Honestly, that would have been a better choice as far as canon goes. The Terminators were supposed to imitate humans to infiltrate their ranks. A giant, muscular Austrian may stand out a bit.

 

[ChickenBrother]

I like him alot.

I didnt really have any problem with his role in those movies.

+1

Adam Driver looks like human Shrek and has the chops to play a great misunderstood bad guy. His backstory and treasuring Vader's molten helmet was amazing and its a testament to how terrible the ST writing was that they somehow turned him into an emo fuckboi.

But the ST is the opposite of the OP premise. No set of actors could have made the ST not suck. And all the actors they cast could have been decent had the movie plot and writing not been dogshit.

 

[HHJ]

Maggie Gyllenhaal is so ugly that it took suspension of disbelief to believe that Bruce Wayne was into her. At least Katie Holmes was cute and at the time had an amazing rack (the Gift, indeed).

I dont think she is ugly,but she wasnt attractive enough that you bought two dudes fighting over her like they were hahah

 

[horc00]

It was supposed to be Lance Henrickson.

Imagine the Terminator/Alien crossovers that could've been made.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Val Kilmer nailed it as Chris Shiherlis in Heat, but I’d still be curious to see how Keanu Reeves would’ve done had he taken the role.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I still think Michael J Fox as the Terminator would have been super unsettling.

 

[ChickenBrother]

Both Katie Holmes in Batman Begins and Maggie Gyllenhall in The Dark Knight.

Holmes no - she was hot and was great in that role. Gyllenhall yes 1000%. Not only does she look nothing like Holmes, she was an LA 3 that left you scratching your head even if you didn't know how hot she was supposed to be in the previous movie.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I can definately see Lance working well if they'd stuck with him but it would probably have ended up with a bit more of a cat and mouse serial killer kind of film.

 

[BisexualMMA]

I still think Michael J Fox as the Terminator would have been super unsettling.

Might have been quite interesting. They tried a physically unassuming and unimposing Terminator in Dark Fate and it mostly sucked. But Michael J. has such a disarming way about him that...who knows, could have been a wild experiment.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Yeah Lance as the Terminator is one of the "what ifs" from a parallel universe that I would have really liked to see. I don't think I'd sacrifice what we already have to find out but Henriksen would have been great. Even as the cop he played in the movie, after seeing T2, it's not that hard to picture Henriksen's character as a T-1000 who just decides to stop playing along with the investigation and his cover and just start slashing up the precinct.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Might have been quite interesting. They tried a physically unassuming and unimposing Terminator in Dark Fate and it mostly sucked. But Michael J. has such a disarming way about him that...who knows, could have been a wild experiment.

I was joking at first. But the more I think about it, the better the idea sounds.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Yeah Lance as the Terminator is one of the "what ifs" from a parallel universe that I would have really liked to see. I don't think I'd sacrifice what we already have to find out but Henriksen would have been great. Even as the cop he played in the movie, after seeing T2, it's not that hard to picture Henriksen's character as a T-1000 who just decides to stop playing along with the investigation and his cover and just start slashing up the precinct.

Patrick as the T-1000 was probably Cameron going back to the original casting of Lance as the Terminator BUT I do tend to think Arnie really set up the idea of the Terminator as this unstoppable monster you cannot even be near which obviously fed though into the T-1000. Lance's Terminator you suspect would have carried a bit less threat depending more on deception and maybe interacting with Sarah a bit?