Halle Berry and Stephen Baldwin race through a crowded airport on a runaway bus full of tourists with a bomb that threatens to go off if the bus slows down.
Tom Hanks, sporting cool glares strapped onto his blinkers, says, 'Show me the money'.
Richard Gere, a cop in a torn white vest, fights a lone, mean battle against terrorists holding up a skyscraper.
That’s Speed, Jerry Maguire and Die Hard, right?
Wait, something’s wrong here. Wasn’t it Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in the first one?
Well, what if it had been the other way?
The British newspaper The Guardian recently listed actors who were cast (or miscast) in some of the most popular Hollywood movies of our time, in roles that stick in our memory like chewing gum on a theatre seat.
Take a look at the casting stories behind some of the biggest blockbusters. And the stars that almost made the roles that destiny took away from them.
What if they had? That's another story!
Text: Bijoy Venugopal
Design: Uday Kuckian
Photographs: Getty Images