For The Thin Red Line (1998) Adrian Brody was depicted as the lead role both in the script and during production. However, in post-production director Terrance Malick cut the film to depict Jim Caviezel as the main character, which Brody did not actually discover until after he started to promote it

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image showing For The Thin Red Line (1998) Adrian Brody was depicted as the lead role both in the script and during production. However, in post-production director Terrance Malick cut the film to depict Jim Caviezel as the main character, which Brody did not actually discover until after he started to promote it

180secondideas on July 15th, 2020 at 00:39 UTC »

So they came to my campus (ETSU) to find a Southern Accent. My buddies all went and auditioned. I skipped and went to lunch.

My buddy John Dee Smith got the part. Had never acted.

This movie literally opens with John Dee talking. He narrates part of the movie, and he has several scenes with Sean Penn. Pretty neat stories he had when he got back from Australia filming.

waterutalkinabt on July 15th, 2020 at 01:07 UTC »

The saying goes, a movie is written three times: the version that comes out of the writing room, the version that gets shot, and the final edit

RevWaldo on July 15th, 2020 at 03:05 UTC »

It was cut from an initial five hours to three and a half after over a year of editing. Performances by Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman and other notable actors were cut entirely, while others like George Clooney's were reduced to cameos.