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Apollo 13

Recasting Couch

Apollo 13 The Rewatchables

Gene Hackman, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore and a Flight crossover

In the discussion (6)
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  • Hackman is considered for Gene but Harris’s performance is defended
  • Pitt is considered as a higher-star-power Swigert without displacing Hanks
  • Cruise as Swigert would be fun, though his crisis of confidence might be hard to believe
  • Moore is imagined delivering Marilyn’s defiant line
  • Bill proposes Denzel’s troubled pilot from Flight in the Swigert part
  • These are hypothetical recasts, distinct from reported casting history