…should have happened, but never did:
A young Harry Connick Jr. as young, skinny Frank Sinatra.
Yaphet Kotto in “The Running Man”…a FAITHFUL adaptation of Running Man as Dan Killian, not as the guy he played in the Ahnold film.
Dennis Quaid, as Hal Jordan.
It strikes me as one of life’s great injustices that no one made A Confederacy of Dunces into a movie starring the Seinfeld-era Wayne Knight as Ignatius.
Geoffrey Halder as Lando Calrissian.
Jude Law as James Bond.
Donald Sutherland as Jack Bauer’s father on 24. He wanted to play the role, but unfortunately had a prior commitment.
You mean this guy?
That reminds me…Darren McGavin as Kolchak on X-Files. Fortunatly he agreed to the role he did end up playing, but appearing as Kolchak would have been amazing.
Jason Isaacs as James Bond.
Rutger Hauer as Batman.
Yup. The Uncola Man:
Pete Postlethwaite as Samuel Vimes.
I’ve said before that, while I’m not Jim Carrey’s biggest fan, it’s simply unthinkable that they did a big-screen version of BEWITCHED and didn’t cast him as Durwood.
Boris Karloff in Arsenic and Old Lace. He wanted badly to do it, but the play was still running on Broadway and the producers would not release him from his contract.
Sacha Baron Cohen was all set to play Freddie Mercury, but that’s probably never going to happen now.
Fear Strikes Out was a 1956 television play starring Tab Hunter, remade in 1957 as a movie starring Anthony Perkins. It was about Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall’s struggles with bipolar disorder.
Piersall played baseball until 1963 and was known as quite a showman. He could have played the role himself.
When he recently died I read that he hated the movie especially how they portrayed how he felt about his father. I doubt he would have accepted.
Everything about the Okay-That’s-A-Little-Weird-And-I-Don’t-Quite-Get-It casting of Matthew Goode as Ozymandias fell into place upon hearing that they settled for him after talking with – and even having mock-up art made of – Jude Law.
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, years before he actually became Bond. After Remington Steele was cancelled in 1987, Brosnan was picked as the new Bond. But then the publcity around that made the studio think Remington Steele could find an audience again, so they invoked a clause in Brosnan’s contract that forced him to come back for another season, and the part went to Timothy Dalton.
Then, becuase the hype died down once Brosnan was no longer going to be Bond, the studio cancelled the the show again. That must have really sucked. He eventually got the role as Bond seven years later after Dalton dropped out.
Way back in the mid-90s, there was talk of having Catherine Zeta-Jones star in a Wonder Woman movie.
I like Gal Gadot in the role just fine, but I still mourn the loss of a 90s-era Zeta-Jones WW.
Why hasn’t some producer created My Two Families, a TV show about a man balancing a wife and son in Manhattan and a wife and daughter in Queens? Starring Ben Stiller