It’s time to change
Another reason for a change of actor may be that the stories are renewed over the years and it is necessary to update the main cast. That happens, obviously, in sagas that last decades and where there is the ease of renewing the faces to adapt them to the new times with the acquiescence of viewers and fans. Can you think of a name?
creative differences
The actor, sometimes, does not move so much for pecuniary reasons as for the artistic drift that the project is going to take. A director who is not trusted, discussions without rest in the first film, a weak script or simply that he does not want to continue playing that character causes the role to fall into the hands of another name, without even having to negotiate a price for appearing on screen.
Life…
logically no one is safe from having a busy schedule of commitments, or of suffering a mishap throughout his career and both an illness (his own or that of a family member) or a death can mean that a character has to see how another actor interprets him. It has happened throughout the history of cinema and, unfortunately, it will continue to happen.
Some movies that changed actors
Next we leave you some series of the films that changed actor or actress in some of their main characters.
James Bond, 007
What to say about this character for whom six actors have already passed and soon we will meet the seventh. On this occasion, the transit of Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig has been conditioned by the years that they were fulfilling thanks to the fact that it is the franchise that has been on the billboard for the longest time. Neither more nor less than 60 years since that first film of 007 vs. Dr. No. Is there a better example?
Jack Ryan
After 007, surely there is no other character with more changes within the same plot universe than Jack Ryan, created by Tom Clancy and who premiered at the end of the 8th with that great movie that is The Hunt for Red October, starring an Alec Baldwin who did not want to repeat in the role. Harrison Ford would later arrive in Patriots game and Imminent danger, nuclear panic with Ben Affleck and finally Chris Pine in Jack Ryan Operation Shadow. In addition, in the original Prime Video series we have another actor in the shoes of the CIA analyst: John Krasinski.
Return to the future
In the original 1985 film Marty McFly’s girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, was played by Claudia Wells, while in its 1989 sequel the responsibility fell to one of the most fashionable women of those years: Elizabeth Shue. The interpreter of karate Kid was made with paper both in the second and in the third part and the reason for this change we must go to look for it in the illness that Claudia’s mother was diagnosed with a few dates before the start of the filming of Back to the Future II and III. The Venezuelan actress chose to give priority to her family.
The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
It was clear that the success of The silence of the lambs It was going to be decisive to prepare, sooner rather than later, a continuation. And to be able to be with the same actors in the leading characters. The problem is that Jodie Foster wasn’t up to the job to participate in the film if Jonathan Demme did not direct it again and that is how it happened: neither the director nor the leading actress took part in the project Hannibal, so it was Julianne Moore who was responsible for getting into the skin of Clarice Starling. The result, at least at the box office, was very modest.
The Hulk of the MCU
The first decade of the 2000s was a strange time in which two Hulk movies coincided: the first played by Eric Bana and the second by Edward Norton. But we will stay with the second because it is, curiously, the one that was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The problem came when Disney began to plan a whole calendar of new productions in which the Hulk appeared alongside other superheroes. So Edward Norton was going to be that character but the problems caused by the actor on the setand his clashes with the director made him choose to look for a successor to the throne… which was Mark Ruffalo.
The Rachels from Batman
Rachel Dawes is one of the most important characters in both batmanbegins like in The dark knight and that he has a very special relationship with Bruce Banner. The problem is that in the original movie lresponsible for the role was Katie Holmes, while Maggie Gyllenhaal appeared on the scene in the sequel. What happened? Well, it’s just that the schedules didn’t add up and the famous Joey Potter from Dawson’s Grows could not be part of the project. So the director had no choice but to find a replacement, much to his chagrin.
The war machine skidded
At the time it did not screech so much because few imagined after the premiere of Hombre de Hierro the one that Marvel and Disney were going to mix up with their cinematographic universe, but seen with perspective, that change of War Machine is too noticeable in the second installment and, above all, in all the other subsequent films in which it has appeared, which are not few. What happened? Well, given the success of the first installment, Terrence Howard decided to increase his cache asking for more money to participate in the continuation and from the production company they closed the door in his face, replacing him with Don Cheadle. And we cannot say that the change has been for the worse.
The mythical Albus Dumbledore
It was a forced change and, at the time, a very painful loss for those who followed the adventures of Harry Potter but, also, for those who had been following the path of the great Richard Harris. After two films, in 2002 he left us so the role had to find a replacement, which fell into the hands of Michael Gambon. He has been the one who has kept the interpretative level of the Irishman very high, who will be remembered, of course, for masterpieces of the level of The Guns of Navarone, Gladiator, Robin and Marian or The Revenge of a Man Called Horse.
