Casting What-Ifs
Grace Jones for the Halle Berry part; John McTiernan as director
In the discussion (6)
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- There were fewer casting what-ifs than expected.
- A report that Jack Nicholson was up for Joe Hollenbeck is not believed.
- Tony Scott wanted Grace Jones for the Halle Berry part and the studio overruled him, which the hosts approve.
- John McTiernan declined to direct because it was another Bruce Willis project, having also not done Die Hard 2.
- Admittedly a stretch: Tony Scott hated Joel Silver so much that he based Lee Donowitz in True Romance on him, played by Saul Rubinick, and Silver went nuts when he saw it.
- An open question is which Joel Silver movie Coming Home in a Body Bag parodies.