Top 10 Movies That Were Written For Some Other Actor

The actors who play the parts that screenwriters create may not always be the ones they have in mind, but they almost always have someone in mind. In some cases, a part may even be written specifically for an actor to play, only for the standard game of Hollywood roulette to assign it to someone else. Let's examine some of the film parts that, with a little background research, it become evident were intended for other actors.

1. Jerry Maguire, Jerry Maguire (1996) - Tom Hanks I quote his famous line “Mama always said life was >> Read More...

Cameron Crowe Cameron Crowe is an American author, actor, direct >> Read More... has recently said that Tom Hanks, not Tom Cruise One of Hollywood’s best; Built his name in enterta >> Read More... , would have been his first choice to portray conflicted sports agent Jerry Maguire. In reality, Hanks was the inspiration for the part when it was written. Hanks had to decline since he was preoccupied with working on his directorial debut, That Thing You Do!, at the time, a year before filming was scheduled to start. In the end, Cruise won the part, and he worked with Crowe on it for the following nine months.

2. Ruby Rhod, The Fifth Element (1997) – Prince Click to look into! >> Read More...

In Luc Besson's wacky sci-fi, do you recall DJ Ruby Rhod? High camp, high-pitched speech, and, well, high-styled attire? The late Prince had consented to take on the role because it had been written especially for him. Even the mole on Rhod's face had been made with him in mind when creating the costumes and props. Of course, comedian Chris Tucker His full name is Christopher Tucker. He is an Amer >> Read More... performed the role of Rhod.

3. Deloris Wilson, Sister Act (1992) - Bette Midler People come to the film industry to settle with a >> Read More...

Screenwriter Paul Rudnick had veteran actor and Broadway singer Bette Midler in mind when he proposed the film that would become Sister Act to producer Scott Rudin Scott Rudin is a veteran American Film and theatri >> Read More... . However, Midler decided against taking the role because she felt for some reason that her audience wouldn't want to see her as a nun. Deloris wasn't a nun; instead, she was a brassy cabaret singer compelled to pose as Sister Mary Clarence while under witness protection. She used her showbiz savvy to turn around the convent choir's fortunes. Midler wasn't just cast in the role; she was almost built for it.

4. Bruce Willis This guy was always summoned and well paid by prod >> Read More... , What Just Happened (2008) - Alec Baldwin Alec Baldwin is an American actor and comedian bor >> Read More...

That's correct, Bruce Willis wasn't even considered for the role in which he famously portrays a douchebag version of himself. Hollywood satire by Art Linson and Barry Levinson follows Robert De Niro's anxious film producer Ben from set to boardroom to set. It has a subplot where Bruce Willis shows up to film Ben's movie with a beautiful beard that he refuses to cut off, despite it being improper for the character. This is only one of many unforgettable scenes in the movie. Alec Baldwin was originally supposed to play that character because it was based on Alec Baldwin.

5. Russell Hammond, Almost Famous (2000) - Brad Pitt He’s one of the most accomplished actors of our ti >> Read More...

The important part of Stillwater guitarist Russell Hammond was written into the Almost Famous script with Brad Pitt in mind by writer/director Cameron Crowe. Additionally, he was successful in landing Pitt for the part and spent more than four months developing the character with him. Patrick Fugit, who portrays adolescent music journalist William Miller in the movie, even recalls meeting Pitt in Crowe's office, becoming friends with him over PlayStation, and filming some sequences with Kate Hudson, who was then vying to play Penny Lane, Hammond's love interest.

6. Peter Weyland, Prometheus (2012) - Max Von Sydow Carl Adolf "Max" von Sydow is a Swedish-born Frenc >> Read More...

The narrative of Ridley Scott's first Alien movie served as the sole basis for his eagerly anticipated comeback to the series. Though the project was originally intended to be a direct prequel, when up-and-coming screenwriter Damon Lindelof Damon Lindelof was born in New Jersey, U.S. on 24t >> Read More... was hired to revise Jon Spaiht's original draught, the project evolved into a parallel story situated in the same universe. The Weyland Corporation's deceit, which funded several of the horrifyingly abandoned missions in the Alien movie, was one of the story's conventional Alien franchise plot points. In this instance, it showed Peter Weyland, the company's founder, as an elderly man attempting to use his enormous riches to delay death.

7. Mary Corleone, The Godfather Part III (1990) - Winona Ryder Born as Winona Laura Horowitz on October 29, 1971 >> Read More...

Since The Godfather Part III was released more than thirty years ago, many critical narratives have developed. You already know the complaints: it was hurried, lacked a plot, writer/director Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola is a director, screenwriter, >> Read More... made it solely for the money, and it fell short of the standards set by the first two films. One thing that almost everyone can agree on is that casting Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola aka Sofia Carmina Coppola is an Amer >> Read More... , the director's daughter, as Mary Corleone, the protagonist of the trilogy and daughter of mafia don Michael Corleone, was a terrible decision. Her performance was panned by the critics in a way that felt almost personal: she was lifeless and vacuous; she had no idea how to act on camera, and her line delivery was juvenile.

8. Dr. Alan Grant, Jurassic Park (1993) - Harrison Ford “Get-off my plane!” This may perhaps one of his su >> Read More...

Harrison Ford was the most well-known leading man in Hollywood from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. They went to Ford first when a script called for a male lead actor who was older than 45 because, if he approved, their production would be given the go-ahead, a start date, and a budget increase. Ford almost always replied "no," but even a workaholic can't be everywhere, and he never has been. The character of Dr. Alan Grant in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park was not so much written for him as it was based on the one who had made him famous.

9. Bloodsport, The Suicide Squad (2021) - Will Smith “Getting’ Jiggy With It!” This his own song releas >> Read More...

Both writer/director James Gunn James Gunn is an actor, director, writer and produ >> Read More... and star Idris Elba Idrissa Akuna Elba, most widely known as Idris Elb >> Read More... were eager to deny rumors that he had initially been selected to replace Will Smith as the new Squad's version of Deadshot during interviews leading up to the release of this summer's The Suicide Squad. The first notion was that the role of laconic hitman Floyd Lawton had been recast because it took some time before Elba's casting was connected to a particular character. To keep Smith, the greater star, on the radar for a prospective threequel, Warner Bros made a point of making it known that this wasn't the case.

10. Everyone, Blow Dry (2001) – Anyone

A case study of the dreads of studio micromanagement is Blow Dry. There may not have been a movie in history when the entire cast was so obviously meant to play someone else other than the person who was recruited. It's safe to argue that Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy didn't have the same kind of influence in Hollywood twenty years ago that he presumably does now. The Full Monty, a 1997 comedy about laid-off Sheffield steelworkers who start a male stripper troupe, was Beaufoy's debut movie.