{"id":477,"date":"2002-08-18T22:16:51","date_gmt":"2002-08-19T06:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=477"},"modified":"2004-10-22T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T17:55:17","slug":"alternate-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"alternate casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081633\/><i>Time Bandits<\/i><\/a>, in the scene introducing Agamemnon, the script read: <i>Helmet comes off to reveal Sean Connery (or an actor of equal but cheaper stature).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Imagine, if you will, that the casting director hired Roger Moore.<\/p>\n<p><b>Later:<\/b> I learned last night from <a href=http:\/\/www.cus.cam.ac.uk\/~pjg20\/mecca\/trivia.htm>some website or other<\/a> that Franz Liebkind, author of <i>Springtime for Hitler<\/i>, was almost played by Dustin Hoffman (who did <i>The Graduate<\/i> instead).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Time Bandits, in the scene introducing Agamemnon, the script read: Helmet comes off to reveal Sean Connery (or an actor of equal but cheaper stature). Imagine, if you will, that the casting director hired Roger Moore. Later: I learned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}