Casting What-Ifs
Ford is rejected as an alternative; other Crow casting histories and counterfactuals follow.
In the discussion (4)
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- The hosts report that Harrison Ford declined the lead and are glad, feeling he would be too old. They also report the lead actor declined Wolverine to avoid repeating Gladiator.
- An IMDb biography is cited for an almost-Collateral role lost through a doomed project’s scheduling; the hosts joke about changed personal timelines.
- He reportedly turned down the Matrix because he could not get past page42 and did not find the world interesting; this remains a reported story.
- The actor is imagined in the Alec Baldwin part of The Departed, though possibly too big a star.