Casting What-Ifs
Brad Pitt; Thomas Jane; Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" over the end credits
In the discussion (7)
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- Brad Pitt was initially slated to play Leonard; after he passed, the line was that a movie star was not wanted anyway, and Aaron Eckhart and Thomas Jane were considered.
- Guy Pearce is joked to be a lab-cloned hybrid of Brad Pitt and Thomas Jane.
- Thomas Jane would have been really good; his brief run with 61* and Deep Blue Sea is fondly recalled before off-field issues.
- Eckhart in the role is hard to see.
- A controversial take: this would have been an amazing Brad Pitt movie, catching him after Seven, an uncertain stretch and Fight Club, and before Ocean's 11; this and Moneyball would have been favorite Pitt movies, and the other participant agrees.
- Radiohead's Paranoid Android was going to play over the closing credits and Nolan was fired up about it, but it was too expensive for a low-budget movie.
- A digital-release director's cut whose only change adds Paranoid Android over the end credits is floated.