10 Movie Roles Obviously Designed For Other Actors

[@Josh-g1h9n]

No disrespect to Harrison Ford but Sam Neill was perfect for the role also paleontology is cool is

[@gestaltdude]

Thank you Ross. :D

[@mprattyh3]

Most underrated Tom Hanks movie is 'The Burbs'

[@synystergrl9270]

Or Joe vs the Volcano

[@bikingbuggy4199]

I love that movie! No one ever talks about that movie.

[@eddysmith5902]

@@synystergrl9270I concur.

[@richardalkire5469]

Dragnet

[@13ShelbyGuy]

Actually it was Ladykillers

[@kennedy6587]

Most underrated Tom Hanks movie is “Road to Perdition”. That movie was absolutely amazing. Probably the most emotional “gangster” movie ever lol

[@fuckgoogle8661]

Brother would probably be my pick for that. The beat takashi one since that’s probably a generic title

[@stephenolan5539]

I think his most underated movie is Joe vs the Volcano.

[@Ceares]

@@stephenolan5539 I love Joe vs the Volcano and I'd say it's also Meg Ryan's most underrated movie, next to Courage Under Fire.

[@Brizzy-wt7fx]

Beat me to it!

[@TravelingBibliophile]

That was a great movie.

[@HiSummerWasHere]

Sam Neil was perfect in Jurassic Park

[@synystergrl9270]

I can't see Indy as Dr grant no matter how much I like Harrison Ford

[@stephenolan5539]

He was great in The Mouth of Madness and Event Horizon but he is remembered as Dr. Allen Grant.

[@alm2187]

"It's a dewback! I mean... It's a dinosaur!" ;-P Naw, Harrison woulda been alright in JP. Just as well we didn't get Indiana Jones and the Living Fossils, though, or whatever.

[@joshpetzoldt6344]

​@@alm2187Wasn't that the last Indy movie?!?

[@alm2187]

Haha,@@joshpetzoldt6344 ! :-) I wrote "and," though, not "is." Then again there is time travel so he could go Bradburian.

[@marquisofcarrabass]

'Ghostbusters' had two main roles written for other actors. Winston was written for Eddie Murphy, who turned it down. And Venkman was originally written for John Belushi, who then couldn't do it because he was suddenly dead.

[@Garry2-j2z]

He was killed

[@abegarfield7030]

​@@Garry2-j2z By himself. He took a Speedball (Heroin and Cocaine in the same syringe) I don't know what he expected.

[@AmazingThor]

He played Slimer

[@jayluck8047]

Underrated Tom Hanks performance... “The Money Pit”

[@Jeremy-f3s]

I've seen all of Hanks 80s films, if you want an undiscovered gem try the man with one red shoe from 84 before he was on people's radar, it's a remake of a French film but it features a scantily clad Carrie Fisher at one point which is reason alone to watch it if you haven't already.

[@abegarfield7030]

Both good movies. I recommend 1986's Nothing in common. Not only a good performance by Hanks but also a spectacular performance by Jackie Gleason.

[@Jeremy-f3s]

@@abegarfield7030 I forgot about that one. I decided one day to watch Hanks' career right through since he seems to be America's most popular actor with only Tom Cruise being possibly more loved. So that's why I've seen all his 80s films but I'm stopped at Toy Story which I haven't actually seen and can't find cheaply on streaming which is why I'm stuck there but going through an actor's full career whether good films or bad really shows you the breadth of work they do, I never would've seen The Man with the Red Shoe or Nothing in Common if I hadn't decided to systematically go through his career chronologically. He's also interesting cos he kinda got stuck with comedy alot as a young man (That Happy Days episode followed by Bosom Buddies) til he did Forest Gump and then everyone seemed to realise he could do drama well and that's when his trajectory changed. But as you pointed out, there are films there during the 80s that show he was perfectly suited for drama like the 86 drama Everytime We Say Goodbye or 88s Punchline which is where he first worked with Sally Field.

[@zbeebs]

Add the end of Mary Poppins Returns, Angela Lansbury appears as the balloon woman in the park. This part had originally been meant for Julie Andrews, but she turned down the part because she didn't want to detract from Emily Blunt's performance as Mary Poppins. Interestingly, Lansbury was in consideration to play Mary Poppins in the original movie before Andrews was cast.

[@anubusx]

Dr Grant: Those dinosaurs belong in a museum.

[@chefdean7257]

"So do you !"

[@morimo11]

😅

[@NealKlein]

This thread is perfect.

[@ernesth7879]

Guarded by top men. Top men.

[@CrimsonCateye]

Every time you hope we enjoy the list and ask us to subscribe in the middle of the video I have to do a doubletake because I immediately think the video is over

[@CuteWholesomeGrrl]

Me too.

[@trinaq]

While Bette Midler would have been an interesting choice for Deloris, Whoopi Goldberg was perfect, and it's hard to imagine anyone else in the role.

[@enoraskye6020]

Also keep in mind, the movie we got with Whoopi Goldberg is very different from the movie originally intended for Bette Midler. I agree 100%, Whoopi was perfect fit for the movie we got. But, I'm curious what the movie was before hand.

[@patrickdoyle6201]

​@@enoraskye6020A comedy written with BABS' shoehorned in and I'm not even hating because the HOCUS POCUS movies are obligatory annual viewing

[@Bfitzgerald82]

Most underrated TH role? The Burbs!!!!! so good. he really needs to go back to his comedy roots

[@meursault-ey7wq]

Nobody mentions Dragnet anymore, so I’d say that one.

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

Could def see Harrison Ford in Jurassic Park.

[@spocko2181]

I could see him wanting to take a nap.

[@morimo11]

Joe vs the Volcano

[@gestaltdude]

Beverly Hills Cop 3 initial concept was it would be a third outing for both Axel Foley and, of all characters, Crocodile Dundee. If you look at certain scenes in Beverly Hills Cop 3, eg the one with Foley jumping all over the ferris wheel, you can see traces that some scenes were written for Dundee instead of Foley. True story.

[@abegarfield7030]

As bizarre a concept as that is, it explains why BHC3 doesn't feel like it's part of the movie series. Axel and Mick are both great characters but I really can't see a crossover working.

[@johnsansker7064]

Favorite Tom Hanks film? Let's go with "Bachelor Party'.

[@RappinPicard]

Tropic Thunder was written with Owen Wilson in mind for Matthew McConaughey’s role.

[@azohundred1353]

The Driver (1978), by Walter Hill, was made with Steve McQueen in mind as the title character based on his performance in other car-oriented action classics, Bullitt (1968) and The Getaway (1972), but McQueen turned it down and Ryan O'Neal took the role instead. It still became a classic, and O'Neal was great, but you can certainly see how the role was initially meant to be a Steve McQueen role.

[@Michaelthekiwi]

Underrated Tom Hanks performance is Joe vs the Volcano.

[@fae206]

Some might argue with the classification of underrated But Bridge of Spies deserves all the praise it can get

[@joestrike8537]

This wasn't on your list, and is totally guesswork on my part, but in 1963 Stanley Donen directed "Charade" starring Cary Grant, and in 1966 "Arabesque" starring Gregory Peck. Peck's lines in that movie totally sound like they were written for Grant to deliver in his suave, insouciant style - but coming out of Peck they just felt...wrong. I suspect Donen wanted Grant to star in this second film, but when Grant turned it down he cast Peck in his place - without bothering to rewrite the script.

[@Jeremy-f3s]

Sorry did I hear that correctly, Prince, a guy renowned for affecting a very feminine appearance through most of (if not all of) his career thought the costumes for that character in fifth element were too effeminate??

[@joshpetzoldt6344]

I think his problem was they weren't purple (rain) enough and no one wore a raspberry berret or drove a little red corvette. I'll see myself out...

[@michaelrae9599]

I can totally see Tom Hanks delivering "You complete me".

[@willfranklin1834]

“The burbs”. …underrated Tom Hanks classic.

[@geoffchurchill5492]

underated Tom Cruise? Legend

[@johnsansker7064]

Check out John Carpenter's "Vampires". James Woods as Jack Crow. If you watch, and you have seen him in other things, you can see James Woods doing the best Gary Busey this side of Gary Busey.

[@The_Dudester]

4:04 Although I despise present day Whoopi, her performance in Sister Act was all her. I can't see anyone else, ever, in that role.

[@dhenderson1810]

She was great in "Ghost" as well.

[@cankleshanks]

Most underrated Tom Hanks film? The ‘Burbs

[@Tin_Man1923]

Dennis Nedry didn't let the dinosaurs loose, it was the one-armed man

[@lordofthereels6790]

I like to hope that Daniel Plainview was originally intended for Nicholas Cage. I know that Daniel Day Lewis is the greatest actor ever or whatever. However you cant tell me Cage would ace the "I drink your milkshake scene alone" and have the father/son dynamic more like Hi from Raising Arizona...I need this movie.

[@PatD83]

Kincaid the groundskeeper in Skyfall was so obviously written with Sean Connery in mind that you almost have to wonder why they even put the character in the script when everybody knew Connery doesn't do movies anymore.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

My Alternates: Jerry Maguire = John Cusack (Jerry Maguire) The Fifth Element = Tommy Davidson (Ruby Rod) Sister Act = Geena Davis (Deloris Wilson) What Just Happened = Val Kilmer (Self Parody) Almost Famous = Ethan Hawk (Russell Hammond) Prometheus = Charles Dance (Peter Weyland) Godfather III = Marisa Tomei (Mary Corleone) Jurassic Park = Pierce Brosnan (Dr. Alan Grant) Suicide Squad = Aldis Hodge (Deadshot/Bloodsport)

[@stephaniegormley9982]

What about Harrison Ford in 'The Da Vinci Code?' The book describes Langdon literally as "looking like Harrsion Ford"

[@nickjgodwin]

Underrated Tom Hanks movie… Road to Perdition

[@Thrythlind]

"Even a workaholic can't be in everything and Harrison Ford was never a workaholic." is such an exquisite .... I'm not sure what to call it. It's not really a compliment so can't call it a "left-handed compliment" ... it's not really a dig, because being a workaholic isn't a good thing. It's just such an interesting line.

[@stevenedwards4470]

"Golden God" thing was a Robert Plant quote.

[@fuckgoogle8661]

Yes it was.

[@zachjanior4343]

I cannot see anyone else playing Dr Grant it was perfect the way it happened Harrison Ford would have been weird

[@vince_ville_0602]

In Rise Of The Guardians, Jack Frost was designed for Leonardo DiCaprio, but he left a few weeks after being casted, and Chris Pine took on the role.

[@WestlakeConsulting]

The Fifth Element dodged a bullet. The smug, self-important Prince would have been so awful in the role of Ruby Rhod!

[@tempvsfrangit3854]

Sam Neill: "Omen 3: Final Conflict" (1981), "Jurassic Park" (1993), "Into the Mouth of Madness" (1994), "Event Horizon" (1997), phoned it in for "JP3" (2001), "Daybreakers" (2009); sure, *just* like Mr Ford.

[@charadeyouare322]

"Iconic, of all time, classic, literally.." Yep. All there.

[@LlorDrei]

I'm honestly uncertain if it is considered underrated, or not, but Tom Hanks in "Mazes and Monsters".

[@MichaelJPartyka]

Bloodsport's replacing Deadshot in THE SUICIDE SQUAD was so obvious that it ruined the joke about Peacemaker's basically being a duplicate of Bloodsport (who was already a duplicate of Deadshot).

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

Tom Hanks' most underrated movie is The Burbs.

[@ksb6625]

Most underrated Tom hanks role is Joe versus the volcano.

[@DCunn_82]

Timothy Dalton, Goldeneye!

[@Fred_L.]

Pierce Brosnan had originally been approached to take over Bond directly from Roger Moore in the 80s but was busy. Had he accepted we would have seen his Bond much earlier but missed Timothy Dalton in the role (who IMO did a good job).

[@meursault-ey7wq]

The problem with the Ford story is that Jurassic Park was adapted from a book, and Michael Crichton had based the Grant character mostly on paleontologist Jack Horner, (who, yes, also wore a hat).

[@OperativeD]

Underrated Tom Hanks movie: The Man With One Red Shoe

[@kanedaku]

I see "10 Movie Roles _Obviously_ Designed For Other Actors" and I know that this entire video will be conjecture.

[@bamabat8435]

I wanna live in an alternate universe where Harrison Ford and Holly Hunter starred in Jurassic Park. Jeff Goldblum can stay though.

[@carastone3473]

Nope! The actual cast is PERFECT!

[@stephenolan5539]

I think AI will make a version of that. Not today's AI but by 2040. And Tetminator with Arnold as Reese and OJ as the Terminator.

[@fuckgoogle8661]

I want the James Cameron version (which would absolutely be superior no chance it wouldn’t), plus we probably wouldn’t have had that major issue with Spielberg saying something along the lines of “yes dinosaurs had feathers but you can’t design them like that no one will understand/believe it”. F@ck you speilburg.

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

Hard pass. Sam Neill was excellent.

[@JenniferMullaly-yd7kj]

DaVinci Code: Dan Brown describes the main character as Harrison Ford in Harris tweed... movie version and subsequent sequel... Tom Hanks

[@Coquinhaification]

I think you confused the editing a little bit in 7:48

[@djyanno]

My most underrated Tom Hanks movie has to be Volunteers. OK it's not a masterpiece but I think it's one of the funniest commedies of the 80s and nobody talks or knows about it. What is funny about Harrison For not being in JP is that, if I remember correctly, The Fugitive was JP's primary rival for summer Box Office that year

[@DM-nf7br]

How did they miss Sharon Stone playing Sharon Stone in The Flintstones movie, a role that went to Halle Berry

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

Most underrated Tom Hanks performance is "Forrest Gump"...given what these other comments interpret an underrated performance to be.

[@chefdean7257]

Joe Vs The Volcano & The 'Burbs.

[@0221serendipity]

Joe VS the Volcano,. Hilarious and fun. Tom Hanks in a dismal job in the first half.

[@bigginsd1]

Tom Hanks also had to turn down the role of Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek First Contact because he was directing That Thing You Do. He is a massive Star Trek fan, so it must have sucked to watch James Cromwell get the role and be the man who invented Warp Drive.

[@domhuckle]

WIIILLSOOOOOOOOOOOOONNN!!!!

[@cyndiebirkner704]

I love Bette, but Whoopi was fantastic in Sister Act!

[@elgatostash7966]

My underrated Tom Hanks movie JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO

[@griffruby8756]

For the Flintstones movie, they wanted actress Sharon Stone (and the character still retains the name) but she refused.

[@fwonderpop9742]

This explains the after credit sequence in "Operation Fortune" where Josh Hartnett plays a role in a knowingly terrible English accent in the style of Hugh Grant's character.

[@StoffelDilligas]

Underrated tom Hank's Moooovie? Bachelor Party.

[@Rugelacharugula]

Why do we talk about all the Hollywood Chris’es when there are like a dozen Toms and Jennifers?!

[@LaineyBug2020]

I can't imagine Bette Middler in Sister Act.

[@RobertoHernandez-eb5ms]

The terminal is fantastic…chefs kiss

[@superdude512]

8:37 wow, Max von Sydow would have been amazing as Weyland. It wouldn't have fixed all of the problems with Prometheus, but it would have fixed one of the most pointless issues.

[@DarkForceUs3r]

Underrated Tom Hanks movie, Larry Crowe

[@geraldmartin7703]

Rod Steiger instead of Eli Wallach in "Duck, You Sucker" (1972). Wallach sued because he rejected lucrative roles thinking he would get the movie.

[@firstname4337]

I'm at 0:52 and you still haven't got to the list -- what the hell is wrong with you ?

[@justmakingit_mtrose]

Long useless intro.

[@AbeStephan]

The more time on each video equals more $

[@Kitty_girl135]

Thank you! I read the fuggin title dude and it definitely didn’t need over a minute of explanation.

[@alm2187]

My two questions about 1:31 are: 1. What's the name of Tom's directorial debut? 2. What's with the sentence fragment about my unspecified habit? 😜

[@meursault-ey7wq]

That Thing You Do

[@alm2187]

What Thing I Do, exactly, @meursault-ey7wq? And what do you want to tell me about it? Do I have a facial tic, or something? Also; what's the name of the first movie Tom Hanks directed and why did they leave it out of this vid?

[@ae6888]

Tom Hanks: Joe Vs. The Volcano!

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

Can we get those bookmarks. Thanks in advance ❤

[@beccajane209]

If Harrison Ford had played Alan Grant, I'm not being funny, but Jurassic Park probably wouldn't be my favourite film of all time, nor my fave franchise. Sam Neill IS Alan Grant, and as good as Harrison Ford can be (I'm personally not a fan though), he wouldn't have been a good fit for Grant. At all. I'm very glad that that didn't happen.

[@drongobum2037]

"...Wunderkind screenwriter Damon Lindelof"... Lol. Just lol.

[@msettajr]

Tom Hanks- The Burbs

[@JoseMartinez-r2r]

Road to Perdition

[@DiggerHarkness-t8o]

Joe Vs. The Volcano

[@gregjensen5826]

Most underrated Tom Hanks movie is Bachelor Party. I learned how to play tennis from watching hm.

[@HiSummerWasHere]

I think Brad Pitt was too pretty to be Russell Hammond. Billy Crudup was perfect.

[@rebeccag8589]

I agree. Crudup is amazing. The whole cast are perfect for their roles in this one, in my opinion.

[@justinmills5557]

The burbs!!!

[@junemastaj2]

Captain Phillips

[@alexius23]

🎬🍿🎞🎥🧙‍♂

[@thedudeabides3138]

I don’t really understand the gate Sophia gets for Godfather 3, especially when you see the circumstances under which she was given the role. Are there others who’d have made a better choice?, undoubtedly, but her performance really wasn’t that awful. I think she gets the hate from the nepotism casting and the fact that the Godfather is the darling of many a movie fan.

[@jacktar550]

Greyhound

[@cyndiebirkner704]

Tom Hanks would never have been right in Jerry Maguire.

[@Ceares]

Cruise was so much better in Jerry McGuire. The character wasn't a cynical nice guy, he was a selfish, self involved sleeze bag who becomes a better person. Hanks wasn't quite at the point of pulling that off. Cruise pulls it off easily.

[@MercerCreate]

Cloud Atlas is my favorite Hanls film

[@TitularHeroine]

Me too. I was hoping someone would mention it :)

[@MercerCreate]

@@TitularHeroine It's a beautiful movie. so much detail, and it's wonderfully put together

[@geoffchurchill5492]

Whoopi Goldberg was a better choice than Bette Midler. Midler would be too wholesome to play a fish out of water as a nun

[@cameronjosephvideos5942]

Harrison Ford would've ruined Jurassic Park. Just being Indiana Jones, no thank you.

[@AgentMoray]

I was with you until you called Damon Lindeloff a Wunderkind.

[@calebmaybin6896]

The one good thing Bloodsport did was get the nanotechnology right unlike later MCU movies that now just come out of seemingly nowhere and endless in size spread.

[@andrewparnell5566]

I feel like there's a slap in the face to someone, somewhere.

[@shockwave75]

Too many fucking ad breaks!!!!

[@chrissnyder4439]

Costumes too effeminate for Prince... right... Brad Pitt was too established as an actor to effectively act... right...

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

So statler and grant were gonna be gay?

[@Argelius1]

Tom Cruise is the most over-rated actor ever. He has BEEN in somc great movies, but they were good, but not because Tom was in them.

[@Bostonnick34]

You lost me @ Bruce Willis plays a jerk version of himself...

[@thecripledgammer9106]

Tim Hank is overrated, but I love toys tory

[@sakazakijin]

I think you mean Tom Honks

[@paulthomson2288]

Jerry McGuire sucked. Chris Tucker almost destroyed the 5th Element, absolutely hated the character wish it could be completely edited out.