Casting What-Ifs
Sylvester Stallone and The Rock were attached during the film's long development; Sam Worthington was attached at various points
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- The script floated around for a long time with little record of who nearly played whom; Sylvester Stallone was attached at one point, twenty-five years too late, and on the Skyscraper set The Rock told Pablo Schreiber he was supposed to do the movie ten years earlier, when he would have been a lead rather than the 50 Cent part, since villain Rock still does not exist.
- Sam Worthington was also attached at various points; the casting is otherwise considered largely right, with every role from Butler, Pablo, O'Shea and 50 to Maurice Conti (as transcribed), Evan Jones and Mo McCray called perfect, apart from the Dave Chappelle part one host misses.
- The film had a long, circuitous development of ten or fifteen years, at one point at Relativity, with various names attached; it benefits from not being the Heat setup of two famous stars, since Schreiber and Butler let you lose yourself in the movie.