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.
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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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/7/255177.jpg?v=1)
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![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/6/9/255169.jpg?v=1)
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![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/6/1/255161.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/9/255159.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/7/255157.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/0/7/254707.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/0/5/254705.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/0/1/254701.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/1/255101.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/9/9/254699.jpg?v=1)
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![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/9/5/254695.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/9/3/254693.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/9/1/254691.jpg?v=1)
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![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/7/254687.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/5/254685.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/3/254683.jpg?v=1)
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![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/9/254679.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/7/254677.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/5/254675.jpg?v=1)
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/3/254673.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED COM JOAQUIN PHOENIX AMY ADAMS ROONEY MARA OLIVIA WILDE SCARLETT JOHANSSON her A SPIKE JONZE LOVE STORY Samantha Morton was originally cast as](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/9/255099.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/1/254671.jpg?v=1)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/6/7/254667.jpg?v=1)
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![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/6/3/254663.jpg?v=1)
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![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/6/5/255165.jpg?v=1)