JUST'D BY FATE

>Dougray Scott was set to play Wolverine in Bryan Singer's X-MEN, which was expected to be his breakthrough role. However, he had to drop out at the last minute due to filming delays with MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2, which he was already committed to. Singer then replaced him to then-unknown actor Hugh Jackman.

He was a good villain in MI:2. The movie being shit had nothing to do with him.

Apparently rumor is that the first cut of the movie was 3 hours long but so much plot was cut out and it became an action fest.

He must hate john woo and tom cruise for the rest of his life.

Shame. Dougray Scott's great.

Stuart Townsend was going to be Aragon but Peter Jackson didn't like him for it and replaced him with Viggo. That guy must hate Peter Jackson right now. He was with Charlize Theron for a while but I bet that her having a great career and Oscar probably fucked him up.

Before man of steel Henry cavill:

>1. Cedric Diggory - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
>Batman - Batman Begins (2005)
Cavill made it all the way to the shortlist for another iconic superhero leading up to Christopher Nolan's Batman reboot. Along with Cavill, the list included Joshua Jackson, Eion Bailey, Hugh Dancy, Billy Crudup, Cillian Murphy, Jake Gyllenhaal and, of course, Christian Bale. Cavill maintains that he never did a screen test, but maybe that's just to distance himself from his future sparring partner.
>James Bond - Casino Royale (2006)
After Pierce Brosnan left behind the suits and Walther PPK, there was a gaping hole that needed to be filled by a new, suave James Bond. For producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, it came down to two choices: Daniel Craig and Henry Cavill. Cavill told Entertainment Weekly:

"I came very close."
But in the end, they decided that Cavill was too young for the role and instead went with the blond Bond.
>Superman - Superman Returns (2006)
For Brian Singer's Superman Returns, it also came down to two actors for the coveted lead role: Brandon Routh and...Henry Cavill. However, when the project was first getting off the ground, led by director McG, Cavill was attached for the role. Once McG dropped out and Singer was brought in, Cavill was similarly replaced with Routh.
>Edward Cullen - Twilight (2008)
Author Stephanie Meyer has admitted that she based her vampire hunk on Henry Cavill himself, and she even lobbied to have him considered for the part. In a reversal of the feedback he got at Casino Royale, a then-24-year-old Cavill was told he was too old to play the part of a 17-year-old high schooler. He, once again, lost this role to Robert Pattinson (and missed prime opportunities for smooching Kristen Stewart).

>Green Lantern/Hal Jordan - Green Lantern (2011)
Cavill's last unsuccessful attempt at booking a superhero franchise came with 2011's Green Lantern. When casting began in 2009, his name was listed alongside Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake, and eventual star (and future Deadpool) Ryan Reynolds.

They offered Sean Connery 20% of LotR's profits to play Gandalf, and he said no. That's like a fucking unlimited amount of dollarinos.

>Billy Crudup

That....is actually pretty solid.

Good, MI2 was actionkino and being in a john woo movie has more honor than capeshit

MI2 was trash you filthy pleb

AHAHAHAHHAH

Connery passed on THE MATRIX and LORD OF THE RINGS because he didn't get the story. When THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN landed on his desk he said "yes" despite not understanding the story either and it turned out to be the nightmarish production turned box office flop that drove him to retirement.

>John woo
>trash
You're the pleb dumbhead, only crappy john woo movie is paycheck

All John movies outside the Tequila series are complete trash, FaceOff included

Who was he suppose to play in the matrix?

Dodged a bullet

you just don't understand subtlety in action movies

Yeah I was wondering the same thing. It was my understanding that that movie was supposed to be as black as the fucking Wiz and it was only through a funny coincidence that both Janet Jackson and Will Smith dropped out and got replaced with white actors.

>subtlety

Nigga...

Probably the Architect

morpheus

haha what? I never heard that except for Will Smith. that would have been silly. Even as Morphis it wouldn't have worked as he has numerous fight scenes and Connery was old even then.

He would have been a better Bond. Has the looks down, although Craig fit for the lame depressing "tone" they were going for.

Probably the only upside for him taking the role in LOTR is that it would have ironically been the 2nd role he would have taken from Christopher Lee (Not only was he the original choice for Gandalf (only to be too old by the time the movie was made), but he was also Fleming's original choice for Bond)

The Architect.

As much as I like Lee, he would have been a terrible Bond. I don't think he could play a believable good guy.