Categories & segments

Weaver negotiations; Paxton and Remar/Biehn casting

Costner and Travolta for Lovell; Pitt and Kilmer for Swigert

Jeff Speakman, Stephen Baldwin and Richard Grieco for Jack; Halle Berry for Annie

Gary Oldman, Orlando Bloom, Brad Pitt, and Jennifer Aniston appear in a detailed casting history.

No casting what-ifs are found.

The discussion covered Redford’s search for Van Doren, Paul Newman declining Mark Van Doren, and an uncertain Soderbergh/Tim Robbins path.

The panel preserves a wide, sometimes uncertain list: Hackman and Connery for Lecter/Crawford, Pfeiffer and others for Clarice, Ed Harris for Crawford, and numerous alleged Lecter auditions.

Harry Anderson, John Travolta, Sean Penn, several Bubbas and Jennys, Terry Gilliam, and Joe Pesci form the casting tree.

Nolte, Baldwin, Hackman, Voight and Richard Jordan

Rogen and Franco were originally assigned opposite roles, Olivia Thirlby preceded Heard, and Bryan Cranston was rejected for Ted Jones as insufficiently scary immediately before Breaking Bad.

Kel O’Neill’s removal after three weeks forced Paul Dano into both Sunday roles; Philip Seymour Hoffman was originally imagined for Telford.

Nicholas Hoult and Glen Powell for Rooster