Angela Bassett should’ve played Storm.
Hmm, interesting; probably had the look, the acting chops, and the physicality to do a great job, but I kinda think it might be best that it didn’t happen. The state-of-the-art of comic book movies has come a long way since then. If they had done it back then with CZ-J it would have been seen more as a star vehicle for her than being about the character. And I like her better in low-key roles than glammed-up, larger-than-life stuff.
So, I like that they waited until they could do it right.
When Joss Whedon had the rights, he planned to cast Morena Baccarin, who at the time I thought would be perfect. But after seeing Gal Gadot in action, I don’t think Baccarin would have been as physically convincing.
Check out some of those Remington Steele episodes on YouTube. Brosnan looks *way *too young to make a convincing Bond.
Also, the elephant in the room here is that Dalton actually was Bond.
How about Kelsey Grammar in a movie about Bob Hope?
Especially when he was younger. He’s got the look, voice and mannerisms.
Or, how about him and another actor in the Bing Crosby role in a Road To … movie?
They could have a whole series of movies.
Brosnan would have gotten stuck with the same scripts and directors that Dalton did, and the results would have been just as bad.
I like Dalton’s portrayal, and Brosnan’s portrayal, and their movies were better than the later Connery and most of the Moore films, but it was not the best time for the franchise.
I think the poster child for this was Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop. I believe the character was designed based on Keanu, who pursued the part for years but things never worked out.
Sean Connery as Gandalf…
Cleavon Little did a fine job as the sheriff in Blazing Saddles, but I wish I could have seen Richard Pryor, who was originally cast for the role.
I wanted a movie version of The Talisman -(SK and Peter Straub), starring a young Brad Renfro
Martin Landau as Spock.
Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Zaius.
Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones.
According to one account I’ve read, Landau was indeed considered for the role at one point. ***Star Trek ***and Mission: Impossible were filmed in adjacent sound stages at Desilu (later Paramount).
Edward G Robinson was supposed to play Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot, but backed out because he and George Raft hated each other’s guts. The role went to Nehemiah Persoff instead.
Always felt that Wayne Rogers would have been the ideal actor for a movie about former Indiana Coach Bobby Knight. They looked remarkably similar and even sounded an awful lot alike.
It’s also interesting that, after TOS was cancelled (and Landau left MI), Nimoy joined the MI cast as a similar master-of-disguise character.
I almost included Genevieve Bujold as Captain Janeway in my list. However, I rewatched the clips from her one day on the job, and I have to admit she wasn’t very good. I think she would have grown into the role, though.
Back in the late 90s, I kept waiting for a live action version of Dilbert to get made starring Drew Carey. He was spot on back then.
A young Sting in the lead for a movie of The Vampire Lestat would have been amazing. Anne Rice for some reason originally wanted Rutger Hauer (???). She was clearly interrogating the casting from the wrong perspective.
Should have been Jeremy Irons as British ex-pat Denys Finch-Hatton in Out of Africa. The role went to Robert Redford who couldn’t play British if he wanted to. Still a good movie, but oh, what might have been.
Nothing against Martin Freeman, but I would have liked to see Coupling-era Jack Davenport as Arthur Dent.
Jude Law as Zod in Superman Returns.
Jack Nicholson would have been a great Wolverine back in the day.
If Star Trek had rebooted the Kirk era earlier, Gary Sinise would have been great as McCoy, and Ray Liotta as Pike.
And if Mel Brooks had made a Spaceballs prequel in the early 2000s, he could have had Jonathan Lipnicky play a young Dark Helmet.