Vin Diesel has played Dom Toretto for so long, that it’s pretty impossible to imagine anyone else playing the Fast and the Furious character.
Though, according to a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Producer Neil H. Mortiz revealed that another unlikely actor almost played the role:
“I had been working with Paul Walker on another movie, Skulls, and I gave him the script [for The Fast and the Furious]. Rob Cohen, who I had made The Rat Pack with, we gave him the script. The two of them liked the idea. And then we had to look for Dom Toretto. The studio said, ‘If you can get Timothy Olyphant to play that role we will greenlight the movie… The luckiest thing that ever happened to us is Tim Olyphant turned us down. He’s a great actor. In fact, I’m curious to see what that movie would have been.”
Strangely enough, the actors both worked on ‘A Man Apart’ in 2003, a movie that no one aside from me remembers.
This would have been very different for sure, as the two are entirely different actors. This isn’t the weirdest ‘almost’ casting to think about, as Nicolas Cage as Donkey in Shrek or Will Smith as Neo in The Matrix are a couple castings that are weirder to think about- to me anyway.
Fate of the Furious hits theaters Friday.
Now that Dom (Vin Diesel) and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) are on their honeymoon, Brian and Mia have retired from the game, and the rest of the crew has been exonerated, the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman seduces Dom back into a world of crime that he can’t seem to escape, the crew will face trials that will test them as never before.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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