Garth Brooks was almost in Saving Private Ryan. When Frank Darabont invented the Bible-quoting sniper Private Jackson, he recruited the country singer to play him. Brooks dropped out of the movie after Spielberg came on board and brought Tom Hanks with him. Apparently he didn’t want to play second fiddle to Hanks, and when Spielberg offered him the chance to play any other character he wanted, he said he wanted to be “the bad guy.” Well, there aren’t really any bad guys in the movie other than the Nazis, so he was dropped from the movie.