Ian Mckellen as Gandalf (LOTR)
Even beating out Christopher Lee, who had Tolkien’s blessing to play Gandalf.
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in the Matrix.
Mr. Anderson…
I bet everyone read in Agent Smith’s voice.
J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson.
Christoph Waltz as Col Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds.
I watched this last night for the umpteenth time, The opening scene is in my opinion genius. Simply wonderful to watch his facial expressions.
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow
Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element. I heard they wanted Prince, but Chris was perfect. No one was ready for that.
Leonardo DiCaprio in the Wolf of Wall Street
Grew up with a dad who owned a comic book shop. Knew all about the marvel and D.C. Universe well before they started the MCU.
Marvel has done a phenomenal job with casting in general, but RDJ as Iron Man is absolutely perfect.
Anyone other than Andre the Giant as Fezzik would be inconceivable. If only he could have played the mountain that rides.
Definitely Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal.
With all due respect to Sean Connery (best Bond etc.) thank goodness he turned down the role of Hannibal Lecter. From Wikipedia:
For the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, [director] Demme originally approached Sean Connery. After the actor turned it down, Anthony Hopkins was then offered the part based on his performance in The Elephant Man (1980). Other actors considered for the role included Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Derek Jacobi and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Robin Williams as the Genie in Aladdin is one of the best cast film roles of all time.
Russell Crowe as Maximus in Gladiator. The speech, once he takes off the mask, is goosebump-inducing epic. Quiet strength.
Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump
Michael J Fox as Marty McFly
And of course, Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown
And the craziest part is it wasn’t even that Fox became available. He was still working full time on Family Ties.
They just disliked Stoltz’s performance so much they went back to Fox and said they’d work with his TV schedule to accommodate him. It was some true desperation from the studio and some insane work hours from Fox, but hey at least it paid off.
Patrick Stewart as Professor X.
I’m gonna step in once more and piggyback off Professor X by mentioning that there is ONLY one Wolverine, and that distinguished honor belongs to Hugh Jackman. The role made a star out of Hugh, and also captured the essence that I always loved most about Wolverine as a kid.
John Candy as Uncle Buck.
Here’s a quarter. Go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face.
Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery.
Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park.
Ryan Reynolds Deadpool.
What I love most about this is he was a fan, he played Deadpool in a terrible movie, stuck to it and forced the great movie to happen several years later. He himself made it happen, the success belongs to him.
Arnold as The Terminator
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone.
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood
Alan Rickman – Severus Snape
Jk Rowling told him Snape’s entire backstory and arc from the beginning, so he went into it knowing exactly how to act.
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Definitely missing