Casting Tom Hanks changed the tone of '80s classic Big, which was originally going to star Robert De Niro and be a more twisted story.
The Big Picture Released in 1988, Penny Marshall's Big is the film that turned Tom Hanks into a Hollywood megastar. He was already a star in the late '80s, thanks to his Bosom Buddies sitcom, and film roles like Splash and The Money Pit. Hanks was doing okay with those parts, but Big shot Tom Hanks up to household name status. The movie was a huge success, making $115 million in the United States. After that, Tom Hanks was off, becoming arguably the most successful actor of the '90s.
Thankfully, it didn't happen, as De Niro dropped out before filming ever began. In 2021, in an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, De Niro was asked if this was true. The actor confirmed it, saying, “Yes. But we had a thing, an issue with the negotiations, so it went the way it went. But that was fine.”
The co-lead in Big, Elizabeth Perkins, who plays Josh's love interest, Susan Lawrence, confirmed that De Niro had been cast alongside her in a 2021 sit down with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. "It fell apart because he had a scheduling conflict, and then they went to Tom Hanks. It's like a totally different movie in my brain with Robert De Niro — and dark... was more moody. It was a little more of a horror movie. Robert De Niro wandering around the streets of New York.
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