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It's always interesting to try to picture what could have been with actors in certain roles. I still can't see Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones. Sometimes things don't work out for the best.



Yeah, I also like to think of the "What if" possibilities... A story that always comes to mind is how Sean Connery turned down the role of the architect in The Matrix. Then he turned down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So, I imagine, he looks back and sees that these films have made about 2 billion dollars. Sci-fi is looking pretty good, no?! So, he adjusts his thinking just in time to catch a wave on ... LXG: the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Ouch.

Of course, Ian McKellen was a great Gandalf, and I'm not so sure a Connery Gandalf would have pulled it off.

There's scores of other stories like this...

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.