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Old 06-09-2010, 08:46 PM   #1
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Default Infinite Worlds: Movies for your Alternate Earths!

Found a great link, with movie posters shopped to include the original performers considered for the roles. Some of them are just wild. :)

Link is here: http://wildammo.com/2010/06/03/if-mo...ginal-casting/

Includes some interesting ones like:

Will Smith starring in the 'Matrix' as Neo.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in 'Brokeback Mountain.'

and Jim Carrey in 'Meet the Parents'.
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Old 06-09-2010, 08:53 PM   #2
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck weren't in Brokeback Mountain?

*checks the local time/space continuum*

Hmm.
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Old 06-10-2010, 04:15 PM   #3
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Nicholas Cage as John Constantine. I must say, he would have been much better than Keanu Reeves (but then again, I still keep an ear out for Reeves to say "Dude!" in any movie he's done ... He'll never escape Bill & Ted).
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Old 06-10-2010, 04:24 PM   #4
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And of course, who can forget the now-legendary choices of Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in "Back to the Future?"
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Old 06-10-2010, 05:27 PM   #5
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We were kicking this idea around for Gernsback-2 a few weeks ago... Our list:
  • Blazing Saddles, starring Richard Pryor and John Wayne
  • His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers
  • Driving Miss Daisy, starring Lucille Ball
  • Titanic, starring Macaulay Culkin and Kate Winslet
  • Charlie's Angels, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Angelina Jolie
  • Grease, with porn star Harry Reems as Couch Calhoun
  • The Crow, starring Christian Slater
And one with the same cast but a different director: Francis Ford Coppola's The Empire Strikes Back

(Who do I have to bribe to get posters of these mocked up?)
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Old 06-10-2010, 05:42 PM   #6
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And who can forget that awesome remake of the Sound of Music by George Romero with Robert Englund as Georg von Trapp?
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Old 06-10-2010, 06:55 PM   #7
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Then there's a classic: Casablanca starring Ronald Reagan!
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Old 06-10-2010, 07:27 PM   #8
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Then there's a classic: Casablanca starring Ronald Reagan!
Okay, everything else was either cool or harmless. But this offends me!

In retribution, I present to you: Star Wars, starring Richard Thomas as Luke Skywalker, George Peppard as Obi Wan Kenobi, Jon Saxon as Han Solo, Robert Vaughn as Darth Vader, and Darlanne Fluegel as Princess Leia!
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Old 06-10-2010, 07:48 PM   #9
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We were kicking this idea around for Gernsback-2 a few weeks ago... Our list:[LIST]
[*]Driving Miss Daisy, starring Lucille Ball
[*]Charlie's Angels, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Angelina Jolie
Lucille Ball would have been totally wrong for the Morgan Freeman part.

....and well, swapping out one Angel and still ending up with Drew Barrymore shows that there's a curse on the franchise.
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Old 06-10-2010, 08:33 PM   #10
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Reagan actually was the initial choice to play Rick in Casablanca. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed.

(I read someplace that the first time Reagan ran for president, some Hollywood wag said, "No. Jimmy Stewart as president; Ronnie Reagan as his Best Friend". That pretty much sums up the type of roles Reagan usually played).

But if you want something really twisted... STAR WARS: The Crooner Strikes Back
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