Will Smith as Neo?!?

[shaniac]

I recall hearing that Michael Madsen turned down the role that John Travolta wound up taking for Pulp Fiction. He did Wyatt Earp instead.

[BigPoppa]

Will Smith would've been a terrible Neo, as they'd have had to change the script to give him a bunch of idiotic one-liners. He's become the black Christian Slater, always mugging for the camera so that the audience knows how cool he is.


Also, actors pointing out what roles they turned down is just an asshat way of trying to steal another guy's thunder. Half the time, they didn't even turn the damn thing down. Their people talked for a bit, couldn't agree on whatever, so everyone moved on.

[Mike Gallo]

John Travolta turned down Richard Gere's role in an Officer and a Gentleman. Travolta did Urban Cowboy instead.

[RunDownHouse]

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What, are you drunk?

[DonkeyKongSr]

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Happyness >>>>> anything Keanu has ever done.

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Great movie.

[Rushmore]

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I think just about any actor in Hollywood could have played Neo by dumbing down their acting. Keanu is naturally dumbed down. Keanu definitely didn't make the movie the success it was.

Keanu has been good only in the Bill & Ted series and Point Break.

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Look, if you guys are going to talk about movies, you simply MUST do better:

River's Edge: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091860/
My Own Private Idaho: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/

River's Edge isn't just good--it's freaking great, and Reeves is actually damned good in it.

My Own Private Idaho isn't my favorite movie, but it's watchable, and Reeves actually does some quality acting in it.

I honestly think Keanu Reeves gets a raw deal.

[XXXNoahXXX]

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I think if they cast Smith they don't go with Fishburne as Morpheus FWIW.

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What white actor would you cast as Morpheus (in keeping with the whole racial balance thing)?

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I think if they cast Smith they don't go with Fishburne as Morpheus FWIW.

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What white actor would you cast as Morpheus (in keeping with the whole racial balance thing)?

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I'm not surprised they asked Val Kilmer, because I can totally see him doing that character.

[KneeCo]

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I recall hearing that Michael Madsen turned down the role that John Travolta wound up taking for Pulp Fiction. He did Wyatt Earp instead.

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Yea I heard this too. Better that it worked out as it did since Travolta is great in that and his death was very well done (obv would have been impossible if it had been Vic Vega).

Speaking of which,Tarantino was talking about a Vega brothers movie where they owned a club in the 80's or something. Never gonna happen of course, for some reason Tarantino loves to talk about movies that he'll never make.


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John Travolta turned down Richard Gere's role in an Officer and a Gentleman. Travolta did Urban Cowboy instead.

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Travolta also turned down Gere's role in Chicago. There's a thing IIRC on imdb about how Gere has pretty much made a career of Travolta's passes.

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What, are you drunk?

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Right, because I can't in one instance point out that it's easy to ruin a movie by mugging/over-action and in another take joy in the possibility of one of the cheesiest, campiest lines from one of the cheesiest, campiest movies of the 80's having been delivered by the king of cheese and camp, Chuck Norris.

Try harder to put me down next time, not that that's possible.

[Klompy]

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I think if they cast Smith they don't go with Fishburne as Morpheus FWIW.

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What white actor would you cast as Morpheus (in keeping with the whole racial balance thing)?

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I'm not surprised they asked Val Kilmer, because I can totally see him doing that character.

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insert do not want pic here,

It's hard for me to say who could take the place, but it would have to be someone like vin diesel.