{"id":3119,"date":"2010-10-31T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2010-10-31T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T13:39:58","slug":"sly-original-casting-choice-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/31\/sly-original-casting-choice-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly: Original Casting Choice for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2010\/oct\/103110sly_as.png?resize=475%2C186\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>October 26, 2010<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviehole.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Moviehole<\/strong><\/a> posted the first part of <strong>Clint Morris&#8217; article<\/strong> titled <strong>50 Original Casting Choices<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Sly<\/strong> made the list twice so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>50. The Terminator (1984) \u2013 Sylvester Stallone as \u2018The Terminator\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019ve all heard the stories of <strong>O.J Simpson <\/strong>(<strong>James Cameron\u2019s favourite<\/strong> to take on the role before coming to the humorous conclusion that  <strong>America <\/strong>wouldn\u2019t believe such a \u2018nice guy\u2019 could be a killer) and <strong>Lance  Henriksen<\/strong> (He did a great screen test, arriving to the office in  character, but wasn\u2019t quite <strong>Terminator <\/strong>material. Instead, <strong>Cameron <\/strong>cast  him as a cop in the film) being up for the <strong>T-800<\/strong>, but did you know  <strong>Sylvester Stallone <\/strong>was actually offered the role of the time-travelling  assassin? <strong>Sly<\/strong> passed not long before <strong>Cameron<\/strong> got wind of <strong>Arnold  Schwarzenegger<\/strong>, actually.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>40. Beverly Hills Cop (1984) \u2013 Sylvester Stallone as \u2018Axel Foley\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You all know this one, right? <strong>Sly<\/strong> was originally cast as <strong>Axel Foley<\/strong> in a more action-centric, less-comical<strong> \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d<\/strong> movie. <strong>Sly<\/strong> ultimately abandoned the project (all the tinkering with the script  turned him off) and the project was later rewritten for <strong>\u201c48 Hours\u201d <\/strong>and  <strong>\u201cTrading Places\u201d<\/strong> funnyman <strong>Eddie Murphy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviehole.net\/201032697-50-original-casting-choices\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check out the other original casting choices here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26, 2010, Moviehole posted the first part of Clint Morris&#8217; article titled 50 Original Casting Choices.\u00a0 Sly made the list twice so far: 50. The Terminator (1984) \u2013 Sylvester Stallone as \u2018The Terminator\u2019 We\u2019ve all heard the stories of O.J Simpson (James Cameron\u2019s favourite to take on the role before coming to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-unmade-films"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-Oj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}