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Running Scared

Casting What-Ifs

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  • The script was allegedly imagined for older New York cops with Hackman and Newman in mind, though it was never brought to them.
  • Tom Selleck and John Travolta were reportedly considered; Selleck had Magnum and Travolta’s agent advised against it.
  • Peter Hyams reportedly liked Darlane Flugel in To Live and Die in L.A.
  • Hyams’s earlier Busting and later 2010, Capricorn One, and Sudden Death establish his action craftsmanship.
  • Gregory Hines is described as having replaced Richard Pryor in History of the World Part I and as having dropped out of 48 hours for The Cotton Club.