Movies Which movies do you think would have been better with different actors in the leads?

[13Seconds]

Now hear me out. I love Michael Biehns performance as Kyle Reese in the Terminator, but imagine Stallone in that place. In his First Blood physique.

 

[Gene Tunney]

It's the whole James Spader vs Christian Slater thing again.

Look, all movies can be improved in a variety of forms.

Orson Welles as Hugo Drax in Moonraker.

 

[MLarson]

You mean in Burtons batman? Jeff Goldbum would've been great too imo

Either Burton's or Nolan's. How about Mark Hamill in Burton's Batman?

 

[MLarson]

I know race swapping characters is controversial
but I think Idris Elba would make a great James Bond.

 

[Larzon]

Anything with Ryan Reynolds. He plays himself in every role and that's not a good thing.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Now hear me out. I love Michael Biehns performance as Kyle Reese in the Terminator, but imagine Stallone in that place.

I hear what you're saying, but Rodney Dangerfield is the obvious choice.

 

[MLarson]

I hear what you're saying, but Rodney Dangerfield is the obvious choice.

I'm to trying to think a good joke about the terminator he'd make but can't come up with anything.

 

[Pure Peace]

not exactly what TS is looking for because this involves some time travel and body building

but a late 40s-early 50s year old Clint Eastwood to play Wolverine

Sid Justice/SidVicious as Sabre Tooth

i remember back in the late 80s/early 90s there was chatter about a live action Xmen movie in the works and these are the 2 guys I always hoped/imagined would play the characters (even though Clint was in his 60s by then)

 

[Prologue]

I've always wondered if The Room could be saved with a top tier director and A list actors. When on this train of thought, I feel like you could take the cast of Mad Men and make this work.

Imagine Jon Hamm as Johnny, January Jones as Lisa, Aaron Staton as Mark, and John Slattery as that random therapist dude.

Come on Hollywood execs, make it happen!

 

[Osculater]

Christian Bale instead of Orlando Bloom in 'Kingdom Of Heaven'

 

[HARRISON_3]

I'm to trying to think a good joke about the terminator he'd make but can't come up with anything.

Remember that scene in Back to School where he's making that giant sandwich at the party?

He could do that in the motel when he and Sarah Connor are hiding out.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Solo

With the exceptions of Paul Bettany and Donald Glover, you could literally re-cast the whole cast with anyone else and it would be better. And perhaps get some new writers, because the overall story was meh.

Also, they should have replaced Lord and Miller at the first warning, not 3/4's of the way through principal photography. I am sure Ron Howard salvaged what he could under the gun, but that movie was doomed long before it hit theaters. I don't necessarily think that Howard was the best choice to replace them either, but when Kathleen Kennedy is the decision maker for Star Wars properties, this is what you get.

Replace her too, just for good measure.

 

[Gene Tunney]

Now hear me out. I love Michael Biehns performance as Kyle Reese in the Terminator, but imagine Stallone in that place. In his First Blood physique.

That would have been epic. If he could just show up and read his lines. But Stallone is a creative and has a say, for better or worse, in all of his films. He would have clashed with Cameron, and probably with Arnold. I have long thought that the principal reason Cameron stepped away from the Alien franchise was because his vision conflicted with Weaver's.

 

[Bacco]

Viggo Mortensen instead Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula

I know Oldman as old-Dracula was great performance but was super shit as young one, zero danger/intimidation vibes compared to book rejuvenated Drac lol

Mortensen we seen in The Prophecy would have crushed that crap so hard

not exactly what TS is looking for because this involves some time travel and body building

but a late 40s-early 50s year old Clint Eastwood to play Wolverine

Not much comic guy, but is'nt Wolverine supposed to be angry stocky manlet?
Eastwood was like a lean 6′4″ dude lol

 

[Plissken]

Take out Keanu and Winona from Coppola's Dracula.
Make Venom in Spider Man 3 truer to the comic book version instead of Eric Foreman. Eddie Brock was a big strong blonde hothead, but they tried to make Venom just an evil Peter Parker by having another scrawny nerdy guy (much like Peter) play him. I kow it'd be difficult finding an actor that fits and Venom was just one of several problems the movie had but it'd help.

 

[HHJ]

I hear what you're saying, but Rodney Dangerfield is the obvious choice.

Ay don't bite me again eh? No respect!

 

[HHJ]

Not much comic guy, but is'nt Wolverine supposed to be angry stocky manlet?
Eastwood was like a lean 6′4″ dude lol

It's the attitude. Eastwood had that surlyness down to a tee. He just physically didn't have the same build.

 

[Sonny Qc]

Steven Seagal as Malcom X

 

[Pure Peace]

It's the attitude. Eastwood had that surlyness down to a tee. He just physically didn't have the same build.

from the wiki about Wolverine (specifically from the time he had been shownunmasked )


Cockrum was also the first artist to draw Wolverine without his mask, and the distinctive hairstyle became a trademark of the character

Cockrum's successor, artist John Byrne, championed the character, later explaining, as a Canadian himself, he did not want to see a Canadian character dropped.[11][14] Byrne modeled his rendition of Wolverine on actor Paul D'Amato, who played Dr. Hook in the 1977 sports film Slap Shot.

 

[HHJ]

from the wiki about Wolverine (specifically from the time he had been shownunmasked )


Cockrum was also the first artist to draw Wolverine without his mask, and the distinctive hairstyle became a trademark of the character

Cockrum's successor, artist John Byrne, championed the character, later explaining, as a Canadian himself, he did not want to see a Canadian character dropped.[11][14] Byrne modeled his rendition of Wolverine on actor Paul D'Amato, who played Dr. Hook in the 1977 sports film Slap Shot.



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Makes perfect sense...

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