From ita's What If casting link:
Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf because he didn't want to film down in New Zealand for 18 months, and could not understand the novels.
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Volans - Jun 20, 2007 11:28:13 am PDT #9345 of 10001
move out and draw fire
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2007 11:28:57 am PDT #9346 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Pshaw. He turned it down because there weren't enough women in the cast for him to knock about.
Laga - Jun 20, 2007 11:29:06 am PDT #9347 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Has anyone seen Mr Brooks ? The reviews are so very mixed I don't know what to tell the guests when they ask if they should see it.
Volans - Jun 20, 2007 11:30:56 am PDT #9348 of 10001
move out and draw fire
He turned it down because there weren't enough women in the cast for him to knock about.
That's the part he couldn't understand.
Aims - Jun 20, 2007 11:32:52 am PDT #9349 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"What do ya mean she 'won't go'? You're her father! If she were my girl, I'd slap her ass all the way to the Gray Havens."
brenda m - Jun 20, 2007 11:44:42 am PDT #9350 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I saw it. It was entertaining, though Captain Logic is not driving that tugboat.
Costner is actually quite good. William Hurt is amazing. Demi Moore - and, really, her entire storyline - is pretty forgettable.
It's really not the cop/bad guy cat and mouse flick it's being marketed as, and the plot doesn't hang together very well. But the heart of the story is the stuff going on in whacked-out Kevin Costner's crazy head, and he and Hurt really sell the characters.
Laga - Jun 20, 2007 11:49:57 am PDT #9351 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Thanks, brenda. That's very helpful.
sumi - Jun 20, 2007 12:12:33 pm PDT #9352 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Sean K - Jun 20, 2007 1:41:42 pm PDT #9353 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
One of John Sayles big rewrite jobs was on Apollo 13, for Ron Howard.
Which is funny, because most of the dialog is taken directly from transcripts of the communications between the capsule and ground control, and from Jim Lovell's book "Lost Moon," (later renamed "Apollo 13," so they could republish as a movie tie-in). I would be very interested to read the various iterations of that script.
Kathy A - Jun 20, 2007 2:18:43 pm PDT #9354 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I always liked the stuff happening in Houston, from the challenge of getting the square filter to fit into the round hole, to the exchange between a few of the NASA guys in mid-crisis:
What time is it?
Four.
Is that a.m. or p.m.?
A.m. Very, very a.m.