Wild Casting

Can you imagine Doris Day as Mrs. Robinson inscript should I write? I'm going to have a low
The Graduate (1967)? That's who producerbudget, I want to film on the streets of LA-- I'll
Joseph E. Levine wanted before Miss Day turneddo a story about a cyborg from the future who
it down thinking the part in bad taste, and it wentattacks people in Los Angeles in the Present." And
to Anne Bancroft. How about James Cagney asthat of course was The Terminator(1984). After
Robin Hood in 1938? A contract dispute causedthe script was finished Cameron received a phone
Warner Bros. to drop him and hire Errol Flynncall from Orion pictures," James, we love your
instead. Do you know that Margaret Mitchellscript. It's a go! We'll let you direct it. We will let
wanted Groucho Marx to play Rhett Butler inyou cast whoever you want within reason-- But
Gone With The Wind (1939)? But perhaps thewe think we found the perfect guy to play the
wildest casting choice in the History of HollywoodTerminator-- OJ SIMPSON! Oh and Arnold
involved The Terminator. James Cameron hadSchwartznegger can play the good guy Reese."
directed a movie called Piranha II: The SpawningSo James Cameron thought about it," OJ Simpson
(1981). "I'm sick of these B-Movies. I got to directhuh. Hmmm. No I can't see OJ Simpson as a killer."
a better movie than this. I'll write my own scriptNeedless to say Arnold got the part.
and won't sell it till I get to direct it. What kind of