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Do you think John Lithgow will be a Good Dumbledore?
I think Eric Stoltz got screwed with Back to the Future.
I think Eric Stoltz got screwed with Back To The Future
What if Frank Sinatra got the lead role in On The Waterfront?
If not Ben Kingsley, who else could have played Gandhi?
What if Albert Finney got the lead role
Why is he picky with his Film Projects?
Turned Down Roles
What if he made Leningrad: The 900 Days?
Do you wish Marlon Brando accepted the lead role?
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Oh Yeah, I think him being a method actor was way overblown. Sure he wants to take it seriously, but he won't held up production. the films Eric did before being cast in Back To The Future were offbeat teen comedies, with the exception of Mask (Which was to get him into the big leagues).
I feel if Eric did something like The Breakfast Club, Amadeus or Ordinary People, Universal more or likely have told Zemeckis to figure it out with Stoltz and not recast him.
I read that they also tried to get C. Thomas Howell and that apparently he rehearsed for 2 weeks before they decided to go with Eric Stoltz.
One thing I wonder is that if MJF was the 1st choice, why didn't they push filming back.
I have questions after reading Pop Cult Master on this subject.
One, Why didn't they film any Melora Hardin scenes as Jennifer. If it's to be correct, based on evidence supported by Testimonies, for the 1985 scenes they filmed.
Detention Scene (Later deleted, supported by Photos)
Family Dinner Scene (Confirmed by Marc McClure in a interview)
1985 Twin Pines Scenes (Confirmed by Photos)
Ending Scene (confirmed by Crispin Glover in a interview)
Also, I had to look up who Courtney Gains was and his role in Back To The Future. That is curious, I thought they didn't film the Prom Scenes.
I just don't understand why it took so long into filming to finally realize that it wasn't working.
I also been ready that even after Stoltz was fired, he was still on the payroll for about 2 weeks.
Do you think they will ever release more footage from the Eric Stoltz version?
Especially with the 40th Anniversary coming up?
The More I read about this, the more I think Eric got a raw deal
Been reading on some articles on this subject
https://popcultmaster.com/2017/11/04/tribunal-stoltz-as-marty-mcfly/
https://wilkowrites.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/shooting-stars-and-stars-shot-down-eric-stoltz-as-marty-mcfly-in-bttf/
1997: Boogie Nights (Role: Jack Horner) (Actor who got it: Burt Reynolds) (Reason: He turned down the role and later felt this was one of few times where he regret not doing the role Quote from Beatty “I felt that I didn’t want to do a movie about porn when I was having these kids, and that’s probably a snobby….by the way, I think it’s a very good movie. And PTA is a very, very good director,”
2001: The Royal Tenenbaums (Role: Royal Tenenbaum) (Actor who got it: Gene Hackman) (Reason: Originally, Gene Hackman turned down the role, and Warren Beatty was the prime contender (or 2nd choice) for the role, however, Hackman later changed his mind and accepted the role)
2003-2004: Kill Bill (Role: Bill) (Actor who got it: David Carradine) (Reason: Quote from Beatty, For “Kill Bill,” Tarantino wanted him for the titular character, but Beatty reveals why he declined. “I believe it was my suggestion that David Carradine would be best for it. I didn’t want to leave my kids…He was shooting the movie in China, and I thought [Quentin was] going to be over there for a long time. And he said, no [it won’t be that long]. In fact, he was over there for exactly the time that I predicted. (laughs) I would love to work with Quentin.”)
2008: Frost/Nixon (Role: Richard Nixon) (Actor who got it: Frank Langella) (Reason: Like Nixon, Beatty turned down the role as he felt that "Nixon was not treated compassionately”)
2024: Megalopolis (Role: Unknown) (Reason: Back in the early 2000s, Coppola was attempting to get Megalopolis and almost succeeded and rumors were circulating that Beatty was up for the role of the Mayor. However, 9/11 put a end to Megalopolis until 2019, when Coppola revived the project, by which point, Beatty is now too old for the role)
I really wish he made The Fountainhead or Man's Fate. The Frank Costello biopic intrigues me, The Yellow Jersey also seemed like a good comeback picture for him if he got it made and his version of Footloose sound of lot better than the final product. Cream Rises also seemed like a interesting project, and if Cimino played his cards right on that one, probably could of been great,
Cream Rises- In the early 2010s, French film producer Vincent Maraval worked on various projects with Cimino, none of which came to fruition. One film, an original screenplay by Cimino himself titled Cream Rises, followed the daily lives of two young female models, (whom Maraval compared to Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie) who are "completely disconnected from reality" and live a hedonistic life in Los Angeles filled with empty sex and boozing. Cimino wanted Taylor Swift to play one of leads, but since she was unknown at the time, Maraval passed on it.
Halfway through the film, the more timid of the two girls is murdered and the other heads to the countryside to find her uncle, "An old cowboy farmer with very Western values", whom Christopher Walken was to embody. "It was something very contemporary," Maraval explained, "About the world of today and its confrontation with the world of yesterday. As if the cinema of Cimino looked at the cinema of today. It was very moving.” The script for Cream Rises was also read by the TV channel Arte, who were apparently "enthusiastic" about possibly investing.
The roughly $25 million project was to have been shot wholly on location in Shanghai in June of the following year and would have benefited from the support of China's government, which said it would provide $2 million worth of local labor costs. The film's producer, Mirko Ikonomoff was in early talks to pre-sell Man's Fate to several European groups, including Italy's RAI and France's TFI, but failed in his attempts. Actors Johnny Depp, Daniel Day Lewis, Uma Thurman, John Malkovich, and Alain Delon were all in negotiations as possible stars for the project. After failing to raise money elsewhere, Cimino took his script to Martha De Laurentis who passed on it. "If you edit it down, it could be a very tight, beautiful, sensational movie," De Laurentiis said, "but violent, and ultimately a subject matter that I don't think America is that interested in."
Cimino however, felt differently, "There was never a better time to try to do Man's Fate," he said, "because Man's Fate is what it's all about right now. It's about the nature of love, of friendship, the nature of honor and dignity. How fragile and important all of those things are in a time of crisis.” In a March 2002 interview for Vanity Fair, Cimino called the screenplay "the best one I've ever done," adding that he had "half the money; [we're] trying to raise the other half.” Up until his death, Cimino tried to get the film off the ground several times, struggling to secure financing. In what would be his last interview in March 2015, Cimino had said he still hoped to make the film someday.
Che Guevara Biopic- After Terrence Malick Exited the Production, Cimino pitched himself to direct it. Eventually, Steven Soderbergh eventually directed the Biopic.
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