Sommige acteurs zijn door één film wereld beroemd geworden, maar soms heeft het lot hier een klein handje geholpen. Zo wilde Will Smith niet Jiggy doen in de rol van Neo in The Matrix, en zou Tom Selleck eigenlijk Indiana Jones. Zoals je al kan lezen hebben bepaalde mensen dus echt veel geluk gehad, daarom heeft de website Mania.com deze lijst gemaakt.

2. Back to the Future

The '80's introduced Robert Zemeckis Back to the Future franchise. Michael J. Fox was always the first choice as lead, but had to decline due to his obligations on the TV series Family Ties. The role then fell to Eric Stoltz, who when cast, had filmed several scenes before the production team decided that he was not right for the role. They again approached Fox, who with some wrangling of schedules, was able to accept the role second time around. This posed a significant production challenge however, requiring numerous reshoots to replace Stoltz's scenes with Fox portraying McFly. Once Fox began filming, the filmmakers immediately knew they had struck on exactly the right actor they needed to carry the film, and in the summer of 1985, Back to the Future began its run to become the most successful movie of that year. Fox's was able to hone his craft on Family Ties, and leverage the razor wit, animated facial expressions, and quirky, adrenalin fueled antics he had displayed so successfully on the show. Stoltz, a fine actor to be sure, has a radically different style, and the producers wisely elected to seek a second audience with Fox for the lead. While the story and its colorful characters are certainly important, it is doubtful that the franchise would have achieved such success with anyone other than Fox as the young man who drove the DeLorean back to the future.