35 Movie Casting Changes That Changed The Game

Sometimes the insane story behind a recasting is almost as entertaining as the show or movie that it's for.
35 Movie Casting Changes That Changed The Game

Casting changes happen all the time, often for mundane reasons. Sometimes, though, the insane story behind a recasting is almost as entertaining as the show or movie that it's for.

Our readers brought together the craziest of these stories and we gave $200 to the best ...

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CRACKEDCON Farley had completed 80-90% of the Shrek voice when he dropped dead. Production stopped and the script was then re-written for Mike Meyers.
CRACKEDCON PREDATOR After filming began for both Van Damme anD the suit were recast. When compared to Schwarzenegger and the other guys it became appa
Willsmith refused to play Django in Quentin Tarantino's Oscar, DJANGO Golden Globe, BAFTAand-a.bunch-others-winning U DHAONEID H A N because Django w
Dougray Scott was originally cast in the lead role of Wolverine in the first X-Men film but had to back out due to scheduling conflicts with the shoot
CRACKED CON Everyone knows that Eric Stoltz was cast as Marty McFly originally, and was canned when his acting wasn't' up to snuff. That's not at all
CRACKEDCO Janet Hubert- the original Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Ain allegedly left the show after violating her contract by getting pregnant.
R. Lee Ermey was never one of Stanley Kubrick's choices for the role of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket He was originally only brought onas
Stanley Kubrick almost cast Robin Williams as Jack Torrance in The Shining, but decided that Williams was just too psychotic for the part. So he went
KEVIN MORGAN COSTNER FREEMAN Kevin Costner was one of the first actorS considered and approached to play the lead role of Andy Dufresne in one of the
CRACKED COM These tweets, following the tsunami in Japan, cost Gilbert Gottfried his job aS the voice of the Aflac Duck. was talking to my Japanese
Producers of The Hunger Games changed the cat who portrayed Buttercup between the filming of The Hunger Games and the sequel Catching Fire... It was c
Originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future, Eric Stoltz was fired for rbeing too serious. Director Robert Zemeckis stated, He's a magnifice
Before Sharon Gless played Christine Cagney on the hit TV show Cagney & Lacey, the role was played by Meg Foster. she was fired after 6 episodes. Why
Nicolas Cage was Cage later claimed originally in talks that he resigned to play Randy from the project The Ram because he does Robinson in not want
Dirty Harry was actually designed for Frank Sinacra to lead the role of the bad-ass cop witHa big-ass gun, But, Sinatra had broker his wrist while f
CRAGKEDCON As if you needed another example of his lunacy: On the first day of shooting The Room, writer/ director producer/ star Tommy Wiseau fired t
Mortimner Schneider For his role in The Lovely Bones, Ryan Gosling was concerned that he looked too young. Sohe decided to gain 60 pounds by drinking
CRACKEDCONT The role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, the role that revitalized John Travolta's career, was offered to Michael Madsen, who turned it d
Sofia Coppola's cringe-inducing performance as Mary in her father's The Godfather Ill can almost be defended. The Godlfather IL Despite a history of c
CRACKED Katie Holmes turned down an offer to reprise her character Rachel Dawes in 2008's The Dark Knight. Her reasoning? She didn't want a schedule
Mary Harron, the director of 'American Psycho', wanted Bale to be the star, but the studio demanded Leonardo DiCaprio get the part. Harron and Bale le
1961 Mel Blanc, the voice of Barney Rubble, is almost killed in He a car accident. falls into a coma. Efforts to bring him out of the coma fail, until
MOK ARDS ARDS M M MM ISION TELEVISION Spielbergordered Michael Bay to fire Megan Fox from the Tiransformers series, aftershe publicly compared Bay to
BACY TO FUTURE THE Crispin Glover NOT Crispin Glover BACY TO FUTURETT THE Crispin Glover was not asked back for either of the Back to the Future seque
Anne Hathaway was originally cast as Right, because vaginas Alison Scott in Knocked Up but backed have NOTHING to do with out because it was going
O.J. SIMPSON WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE TERMINATOR BUT JAMES CAMERON SAID HE WOULD BE MISCAST AND COULDN'T SEE HIM AS A KILLER. S RMONATOR
Richard Gere was replaced by Perry King in The Lords of Flatbush because... He spilled food on Sylvester Stallone, and Sly elbowed Gere in the head.
CRACKED COM JOAQUIN PHOENIX AMY ADAMS ROONEY MARA OLIVIA WILDE SCARLETT JOHANSSON her A SPIKE JONZE LOVE STORY Samantha Morton was originally cast as
Tobey MaGuire was initially cast for the writer's role in the movie Life of Pi After shooting all the scenes, director Ang Lee replaced him with Briti
After shooting the entire film, September Woody Allen decided he wasn't happy with it. He then rewrote the whole script and fired and recast nearly ev
5tuart Townsend Was originally cast as Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Le went to New Zealand. and rehearsed and trained for two months le w
CRACKED COM In The Partridge Family, the role of Chris Partridge was originally played by Jeremy Gelbwaks. When shooting a scene, just before the dire
Wheeal L alk. yoi'te t laush >f vrarse Elliott Gould provided the voice of Hot a talking horse in 1988's to Trot, buT after poor test screenings, the
80s 90s teen heartthrob, Johnny Depp, of Cry-Baby and 21 Jump Street fame, turned down the title role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which eventually we

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