Then in season 8
Ya? Or maybe the original actor who played Holly didn’t like the commute to the studio. These guys were not getting a lot of money for making the show.
You know, Doctor Who is arguably the ultimate version of this.
But they knew they’d be changing actors and probably wanted to change personalities, too, so they brilliantly came up with the whole “Regeneration” schtick to allow them to switch doctors with wild abandon.
I’d be much more willing to believe the second Total Recall was a dream than the first movie. The actor who played the main character just didn’t seem as much an action hero as Arnold.
I’d be much more likely to believe the second Total Recall was a dream than the first movie. The actor who plays the main character just doesn’t seem to be as much an action hero as Arnold.
Well, remakes are a whole different ballgame. Nobody really cares if the characters in a remake don’t look like the ones in an earlier version (except occasionally, like the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven parallels I cited above). But it makes a whole lotta difference when an actor who looks radically different from the original one starts interacting with the same supporting actors and nobody seems to notice. Movies usually try not to stray too far from the appearance of the original. What I’m interested in here are cases where they’re vastly different (Paul Newman vs. Jackie Gleason. Bald scarred Donald Pleasance vs. grey-coiffed unscarred Charles Gray.)
I feel like this is a much better example. All the various Jame Bond movies, you kind of just assume different actors are going to play different characters. It’s part of the franchise. This one kinda came out of nowhere, and they didn’t even try to make them look the same:
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Tap. Tap. Is this thing on?
I’m all for giving appropriate credit, but this isn’t the same thing.
We both talk about Doctor Who, but we’re making different points.
A real bad one is The Sting with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, followed by The Sting II with Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis.
The original Emperor in Empire Strikes Back (played by Clive Revill) doesn’t look like Ian McDiarmid’s Palpatine at all:
Though now they've edited in McDiarmid into ESB to fix that issue.In the 1940s Universal Horror films, they gor John Carradine to play Dracula in House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. Carradine’s tall, mustachio’d Dracula looked nothing like Bela Lugosi’s. then, of course, they got Lugosi back for Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein in 1948.
It also apparently didn’t bother them that Dracula was shown to be dead in the original Dracula, House of Dracula, and House of Frankenstein. Heck, he’s the Undead! It didn’t bother them that Ygor got killed art the end of Son of Frankenstein. He came back in Ghost of Frankenstein, just the same.
Red Dwarf: Never mind Holly - replacing the cute wise-cracking Claire Grogan as Kochanski with whoever-that-toffy-sounding-chick-was in season … ummm … seven (?) was a bizarre decision to me. She neither looked nor acted like the original ‘smart working class girl’ conception of the character
The soap opera One Life to Live.
Original Blair Cramer was played by Asian American actress Mia Korf. She was recast with blonde Southern actress Kassie DePaiva.
And speaking of De Paiva. Kassie DePaiva is married to actor James DePaiva, who played the character of Max Holden. He left the show, and was replaced by actor Nicholas Walker. The show actually went through a long period of time when Max Holden had to have reconstructive surgery on his face, which explained why Nicholas Walker looked different from James DePaiva. But then, they brought James DePaiva back for the part and never explained why he looked like he did before the surgery.
Roger Howarth originated the role of Todd Manning on the show. Then he left the show for greener pastures, and the show had Todd go away. Then the character came back, played by Trevor St. John. At first, though, St. John played a character named Walker Lawrence, but the show kept dropping hints that he was really Todd Manning. Then it was revealed that he really was Todd, who had had surgery to look different. But Roger Howarth indicated his willingness to come back to the show, so the show made the bright idea that St. John’s character was really Todd’s previously-unknown twin brother, who had been brainwashed to think he was Todd.
Yep. Hated the nobby officer-y one.
Carradine also reprised the role in Billy the Kid vs Dracula, one of the absolute worst movies (and greatest unintentional comedies) ever made! :o
Julianne Moore looks nothing like Jodie Foster, but she was still cast as Clarice Starling.
I actually forgot about Howard. Ugh, he is one of my least favorite actors.
Don Cheadle is way better and I’m so glad he got the role. But, yeah, they look nothing alike.
The Mountain was also played by different looking guys.
I did not realize the Daario actors were even playing the same guy until my wife and re-watched the show. It was confusingly different. I mean, zero similarities.
John Bosley in the original TV Charlie’s Angels.
John Bosley in the Charlie’s Angels movie.
John Bosley in the 2011 Charlie’s Angels TV reboot.
That’s not counting John Bosley’s adopted brother, or the three people who will be “Bosley” in the 2019 movie.
In Tim Burton’s Batman, Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent. When it came time for Dent to turn into Two-Face, Tommy Lee Jones played the part. Definitely different in appearance.
Well that show featured one of the silliest cast changes of all time, Gladys Kravitz.
First Gladys, Alice Pearce: thin, tall, brunette
Second Gladys, Sandra Gould: pudgy, short, redhead.
And while we’re back to the sixties, the three Gidget films and the following TV series were released over a span of just six years. Yet Gidget is a brunette (Sally Field), redhead (Deborah Walley), and two blondes (Sandra Dee and a totally forgotten Cindy Carol).