Who did they want to play that??? Pt 1

Some actors just seem so well suited to a role you'd think it was written for them, well that's not always the case. Of course there are a lot of actors initially touted for roles, these are are ones who came really close and some alternatives surprised me, some shocked and some I thought 'Yeah, I can see that', what do you think?

Harrison Ford is Han Solo, surely he was first choice, wasn't he! Well there were a few other actors up for the role, Jack Nicholson, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and even Al Pacino but heading them all was Chistopher Walken, luckily for us because of scheduling conflicts and some thinking the script was too "out there" Ford sealed the role, and the rest is history.

Harrison Ford nearly missed out on Indiana Jones as the role was originally earmarked for Tom Selleck (yep, could totally see that) but Selleck had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts concerning Magnum PI, perhaps Ford could have taken over as Magnum, no, not the best idea.

Talking about Star Wars, did you know that Michael Jackson was considered for the role of Jar Jar Binks!?

"Stupid is as stupid does" John Travolta turned down the role of Forrest Gump, but he was then offered the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction so it worked out in the end.

Sean Connery was almost Hannibal Lecter, but he turned down the script because he thought it was "disgusting".

Screenwriter Stuart Beattie wrote the role of Jack Sparrow specifically for Hugh Jackman but as it took nearly 10 year before the script for Pirates of the Caribbean was taken up by Disney, Johnny Depp knocked the screen test out of the park and an icon was born, but I don't think Jackman would have done too bad a job himself!

Talking of Hugh Jackman, he nearly wasn't Wolverine, comic book writer Chris Claremont wanted Bob Hoskins as Logan, he thought Hoskins was "short and feral" just like Wolverine, now that would have been a totally different movie!

When the role of Wolverine was finally cast it wasn't Jackmans name on the list, it was Dougray Scott, but he got injured in a motorcycle accident on the set of Mission Impossible 2 so wouldn't be available when filming started, Jackman was brought in as a last minute replacement!

Still talking about Hugh Jackman, he was offered the role of James Bond in Casino Royale, he turned it down when he was told he wouldn't have a say in how the story went, "I just felt at the time that the scripts had become so unbelievable and crazy, and I feel like they needed to become grittier and real" this from a man who made his name as a superhero with a metal skeleton!

Can you imagine anybody else playing the part of Marty McFly other than Michael J Fox, no, me either, shooting actually started with Eric Stolz in the iconic role but after a few days Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale realised that Stolz didn't rely have the comic timing to pull off the script so MJF was brought in to reshoot everything and a franchise was born!

Tim Roth as Severus Snape, yep could have worked, but the role eventually went to Alan Rickman, and nobody regretted it, even Roth stated "the better man for the job did the job", classy guy, always liked Tim Roth.

Started this section with Harrison Ford, so may as well finish it with him, what do think Jurassic Park would have been like with Ford as Dr Alan Grant, Christina Ricci as Lex, Sandra Bullock as Ellie, Jim Carrey as Malcolm and Sean Connery as Hammond, apparently Carrey came very close to landing the role that made Jeff Goldblum.