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IndianaJones07
07-03-2006, 03:17 PM
Will Smith was going to be Neo and Val Kilmer was going to be Morpheus -- how would the Wachowski's have made the screenplay different? For some reason I don't see WIll Smith going, "Whoa, I know Kung Fu."
cocksmokinclerk
07-03-2006, 05:26 PM
oh thank God that didn't pan out
Badbird
07-03-2006, 05:53 PM
Jet Li was supposed to play Serref (sp?) in Reloaded/Revolutions, but didn't think the role was big enough - also opted out so he could make The One.
KillBill
07-03-2006, 06:17 PM
"THE BLUE PILL!? AWWW HELL NAW!" - Will Smith
Backstabba
07-03-2006, 06:23 PM
I remember reading that a while ago...

Thinking about it made me go :confused: :eek:
X-Nightcrawler
07-03-2006, 06:59 PM
Originally posted by KillBill
"THE BLUE PILL!? AWWW HELL NAW!" - Will Smith Ahahahaha, I literally heard him saying that in my mind, pretty good.
Sigur509
07-03-2006, 09:10 PM
Remember when Sean Connery was suppost to be gandalf. But passed because he couldn't understand the book.
Tweek
07-03-2006, 09:12 PM
Originally posted by Sigur509
Remember when Sean Connery was suppost to be gandalf. But passed because he couldn't understand the book.


:confused: is... That true?:confused:
thedudeman69
07-03-2006, 09:18 PM
Originally posted by Sigur509
Remember when Sean Connery was suppost to be gandalf. But passed because he couldn't understand the book.


James Bond is illiterate? OMG.
Tayzlor
07-03-2006, 10:36 PM
Thank god, otherwise we would be without "The Legend of Bagger Vance" I assume.
John Taylor
07-03-2006, 10:50 PM
Originally posted by Sigur509
Remember when Sean Connery was suppost to be gandalf. But passed because he couldn't understand the book.

Wasn't he also suppose to be Magneto as well?
X-Nightcrawler
07-03-2006, 10:55 PM
Originally posted by John Taylor
Wasn't he also suppose to be Magneto as well? Makes sense.

*sees helmet*
"Why ish it shaped like that? What madnesh ish thish!"
XCoRyX
07-04-2006, 09:28 AM
I could easily see Val Kilmer in the role of Neo. But that may also just because I find the Matrix movies really overrated and crappy,but what couldn't he do that Keanu Reeves could?
cocksmokinclerk
07-04-2006, 12:17 PM
Originally posted by XCoRyX
I could easily see Val Kilmer in the role of Neo. But that may also just because I find the Matrix movies really overrated and crappy,but what couldn't he do that Keanu Reeves could?

.........................he knew kung fu
CletusHorniblow
07-04-2006, 12:28 PM
Sean Connery would make a hillarious Neo. Just imagine him reading these lines.

"I used to eat there. Really good noodles. "
"I know kung fu."
"Whoa. Déjà vu. "
Monotreme
07-04-2006, 02:36 PM
Will Smith has too much character to play Neo. I'm not a big Keanu Reeves fan, quite the contrary - but I must admit, his deadpan performance was PERFECT for Neo. At least in the first film - in the other two, the Wachowski's had EVERYONE deliver a deadpan performance and it was just shitty.
IndianaJones07
07-04-2006, 03:09 PM
They probably had a different, more Will Smithish script had he gotten the role. Never in a million years would Agent J had delivered some of those lines. It would have been an overall different movie, like if Johnny Depp wasn't Jack Sparrow or Nicholson wasn't the Joker or w/e, it probably wouldn't have been as martial arts-based and maybe not as phylosophical...
bigred760
07-04-2006, 05:48 PM
I think Brad Pitt was also offered (or was up for) the role of Neo. I think he could've pulled it off better than Will Smith could've.
Lord Raiden
07-05-2006, 01:54 AM
I also remember that Ewan McGregor was up for the role of Neo but ultimately chose Obi-Wan Kenobi.
fchighlander91
07-06-2006, 12:59 AM
tom cruise was as well......
many people were up for hte role......
Ender
07-08-2006, 09:50 PM
It's often hilarious to look back over the "almost casts" of succesful movies. Film execs have a knee-jerk reaction to try to fill every movie with "big names", or sometimes young actors "on the rise", whether they're appropriate or not.

I remember Smith's after-the-fact rationale for rejecting the role, which was pretty funny: "Well yeah, it seems stupid now, but imagine being pitched that movie two years ago. 'Well, there's this other world, and it's the real world, and the world you think is the real world is really the Matrix world, and because you know it's not the real world you can fly and do kung-fu and stuff.' 'Um, right. Let me get back to you guys on that.'"