Gary Sinise’s reported audition and recommendation of Petersen inform recasting alternatives: Sinise, Andy Garcia and John Malkovich, with Garcia considered too handsome and Pankow’s chase acting defended.
Further Vukovich alternatives include Kelsey Grammer, Jeff Goldblum, Stanley Tucci, Will Patton, Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton, with age, height and attractiveness qualifications; Malkovich remains favored by one participant.
Gere is affirmed for the 1990 combination with Pretty Woman, and Garcia for the same year's Godfather Part III combination.
Billy Baldwin is rejected in favor of Backdraft or the film described as Thief of Hearts in the transcript.
The Valley receives a suggested case for looking cool and wild, contrasted with Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
Dirty Los Angeles cops is debated against Colors, The Onion Field and L.A. Confidential. Internal affairs and cops moonlighting as hitmen are floated without a clear final declaration.
Nancy Travis loses to So I Married an Axe Murderer; Metcalf and Sciorra are rejected; Faye Grant gets only a probable yes.
Imagining one's wife with another man loses to Indecent Proposal after comparisons with The Best Man, The Big Picture and Unfaithful.
Cops sleeping with partners' wives and slapping in movies receive affirmative answers.
Gere is tentatively proposed as the apex of an attractive villain, without a firm conclusion.
