10 Worst Recastings of Science Fiction’s Rock-Star Characters

Can James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender make us believe they ’re playing the same character as Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen , in X - Men : First Class ? We have high hopes . But recasting iconic characters does n’t always work out that great .

Sometimes you trade out an actor , and believability — and character emergence — go out the window . Sometimes a recasting just sheer does not mold . Here are the 10 bad rephrasing of science fiction ’s capital quality .

Jeffrey Weissman as George McFly in Back To The Future II and III . According toIFC , Crispin Glover pass up to come back to the BTTF films as George McFly , which caused a problem for the two continuation . So director Robert Zemeckis and producer Bob Gale resolve to replace Glover with role player Jeffrey Weissman , and mask the substiution by using magazine of Glover interspersed with unexampled footage of Weisman mask with prosthetics , wigs … and even advert him upside down at one full stop .

Chloë Annett as Kristine Kochanski on Red Dwarf . As the Onion AV Clubputs it , “ Kristine Kochanski , the love interest in the British rage science - fable comedy Red Dwarf , underwent a curious electric arc , with a downgrade in force attending an raise in character . ” She started out being played by the wondrous Clare Grogan , as a woman Lister had fancied and whose holographical image he lusted after . But eventually the writers decide to retcon her as having been Lister ’s actual girlfriend , and preface her counterpart from an alternate universe of discourse as a character on the show — only to remould the part as the reasonably less interesting , if more model - looking , Annett .

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Mary Alice as The Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions . This one is mostly annoying for how much attention they drew to the alteration , and the silly rationalisation the Wachowskis fix up to excuse it . When the original Oracle , Gloria Foster , died of a complications from diabetes , the Wachowskis replaced her with Alice , who did n’t quite have the same presence — but also , the pic endeavor to make the change of actor a plot power point , say that the Oracle was re - shelled because of an incident within the Matrix and this proved that luck and innocent will are bedlam and … where was I ?

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Halle Berry as Catwoman Catwoman is one of those fictional character who ’s been played by a ton of actors , including three Catwomen in the original sixties Batman serial and Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns . But Halle Berry ’s embodiment , with the CG - animated tush and the dreadful shot of trying to get her neighbor to turn their damn music down , was the bad reimagining of a character possible . At least Berry had the dear free grace to accept her Razzie Award for Worst Actress in person .

John Davey as Captain Marvel in Shazam ! This is another one which the Onion AV Clubmentioned . Check out the difference between the two variant of Shazam ! ’s open up credits here . In the first one , Captain Marvel await at least more or less like his comic - book self , albeit with huge mutton - chop sideburn and irrupt 1970s hair . But in the 2nd interlingual rendition , the show ’s producer have supplant the original Captain Marvel , Jackson Bostwick , in a hurry with a new hombre , John Davey , because Bostwick was injured on the job and missed work to get treatment . The new Captain Marvel can only be described , charitably , as slouchy . Shaz … ow !

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Tim Pocock as Scott Summers in cristal - Men Origins : Wolverine . It was n’t enough to kill Scott Summers off - screen in the third ten - Men motion picture ? Now they have to bring him back as a slow teenaged rebel , who ’s unable to deal with a autocratic teacher and then gets enamour way too well by Sabretooth .

Everyone as Davros , in Doctor Who . This is really a case of an actor who defined a particular office so well , that nobody else could just pick up and stock on . Michael Wisher was Davros — you only have to look out the archival video consultation with the chain - smoking Wisher on the “ Genesis Of The Daleks ” videodisk to see how much of himself he put into the psychopathic scientist who created the evil Daleks . alas , nobody else who took on the role after Wisher was able to bring that same grade of purring cerebral curiosity , mix with batshit rage . It ’s hard to add those extreme to the same character , and only Wisher — who ’d also been a Dalek — could do it .

Everyone as Anakin Skywalker . This is almost too much of a loud stab , but it has to be said . All of the actors who fill over the character of Anakin Skywalker , the succeeding Darth Vader , were n’t up to the challenge of conquer Sebastian Shaw ’s performance in Return Of The Jedi . Shaw , a Shakespearean actor as well as a dramatist and poet , lend a sure gravitas to the unmasked Anakin , not unlike James Earl Jones as Vader . But every histrion who ’s tackled Anakin for the retiring decade or so , including Hayden Christensen and the alive version ’s Matt Lanter , has just lacked a certain … heaviness .

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Robin Curtis as Saavik in Star Trek III and IV . We ’re still deplorable about this one , even 25 years by and by . Shelley Long should have stayed on Cheers , and Kirsty Alley should have been required to encounter Saavik in every Trek movie in the 1980s , without fail . Of all the let - down feather about the third Trek picture , the replacement Saavik might have been the worst . She lacked all the witticism and sparkle of the master copy , who was a great transparency for Spock , showing how Spock had evolved from his more actual - minded youth and give a taste of old - school Vulcan hidebound posture for Kirk to reverberate off of . It would have been great to see Alley ’s Saavik dealing with all of a sudden teenaged Spock , not to refer bearing Spock ’s sister in the 4th movie , as should have occur .

Everyone as John Connor . Edward Furlong was n’t exactly the best actor in Terminator 2 , with his whole smirking “ stand up on one foot ” subroutine . But his miscellany of brattiness and tender pain , and his want for a father figure have him to latch on to Arnie ’s tame death machine , was pretty memorable . And it ’s not hard to trust that John Connor , the leader of the resistance in the remote post - apocalyptical future , might have been a bit of a brat . It ’s a mess hard , though , to believe in any of the John Connors we ’ve had since then , including Nicholas Stahl ’s neurotic twitchy variant , Christian Bale ’s screaming tourettes version , and — dingy to say — Thomas Dekker ’s often way - too - pouty version . If only Furlong had been able to grow up with the part , that would have been really interesting to see .

This io9 flashbackoriginally seem in January 2010 .

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