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Approx. transcript time · 01:33:29Read transcript
- Weaver’s salary negotiation is recounted
- Paxton’s prospective Police Academy 2 role and Bobcat Goldthwait are discussed
- James Remar’s removal and Biehn’s quick arrival are recounted
- Pacino visiting a neighboring set leads to imagined roles for him; those are jokes, not casting history
The most "year the movie came out" thing
Vietnam echoes and 1986 Hollywood conventions
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Approx. transcript time · 01:04:20Read transcript
- Vietnam-war overtones
- A female action lead treated as a novel proposition
- Michael Biehn replacing James Remar
- Burke’s contemporary-looking blazer
- Metroid and the female-hero reveal are linked to Ripley
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
The adults, especially the disengaged fathers
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Approx. transcript time · 01:00:16Read transcript
- The entire neighborhood is a collection of unguarded treehouses, wells, tracks, highways, dogs, and cliffs.
- The adults’ behavior is the direct weak-link answer.
- A stronger actor such as James Remar or using David Morse as Wallace is proposed.
Recasting Couch
Melanie Griffith as Bianca; multiple Vukovich alternatives
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Approx. transcript time · 01:26:53Read transcript
- 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.
- Bianca recasting candidates include Melanie Griffith, Rosanna Arquette, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly McGillis and Daryl Hannah; dance credibility matters and Griffith is favored.
- More Vukovich recasts are David Patrick Kelly, Michael Madsen, James Remar, J. T. Walsh and John Heard, with Madsen considered too handsome.
The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award
Ray Baker; James Remar receives a namesake-award joke.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:11:53Read transcript
- Ray Baker is selected as the That Guy winner.
- James Remar is jokingly declared the winner of a self-named award for appearing in the movie.
Casting What-Ifs
Peter Weller ultimately won the role after a long search; the discussion covers many alternate Murphy, Lewis, and Boddicker choices.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:15:34Read transcript
- Jonathan Kaplan left to direct Project X, and Verhoeven initially dismissed the script.
- Schwarzenegger, Ironside, Rucker Hauer, Tom Berringer, Armin Asante, Keith Caradine, and James Remar were Murphy possibilities.
- Steven Seagal appears among possible Murphy headshots and is developed as a comic alternate.
- Stephanie Zimbalist was cast as Lewis but a Remington Steele pickup prevented it.
- Michael Ironside declined Boddicker and Kurtwood Smith moved from auditioning for Dick Jones to Boddicker.
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