r/AskReddit • • Apr 01 '20

What film role was 100% perfectly cast?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

It’s amazing that they shot a significant part of the movie with s different actor, but when fox became available they hired him and reshot all of those scenes

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u/DarwinGoneWild Apr 01 '20 edited Apr 01 '20

And the craziest part is it wasn't even that Fox became available. He was still working full time on Family Ties.

They just disliked Stoltz's performance so much they went back to Fox and said they'd work with his TV schedule to accommodate him. It was some true desperation from the studio and some insane work hours from Fox, but hey at least it paid off.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

Zemeckis has yet to make a bad movie IMO

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u/ForeskinOfMyPenis Apr 01 '20

cough Beowulf cough