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Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>presents 30 Facts About Your Favorite Steven Spielberg Movies<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0TOM SELLECK WAS SUPPOSED TO PLAY INDIANA JONES.<\/span><\/strong> For Indy, Lucas and Spielberg eventually settled on actor Tom Selleck. But when CBS got wind of what the two were up to, the network legally barred Selleck\u2014the lead of the hit show\u00a0Magnum, P.I.<\/em>\u2014from appearing in the film.\u00a0<\/em>Spielberg then suggested Harrison Ford as a quick replacement, but Lucas was reluctant to cast Ford because he was already Han Solo in hisStar Wars<\/em> films. But Spielberg\u2019s quick thinking prevailed, and Ford was added to the cast just two weeks before principal photography began. (A similar snafu happened with Danny DeVito, the first choice to play Indy\u2019s jovial companion Sallah, who couldn\u2019t take the part due to his contractual obligation to appear on the popular ABC show Taxi<\/em>.)<\/p>\n 12. SPIELBERG REFUSED TO ACCEPT A SALARY FOR SCHINDLER\u2019S LIST<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> 20. GARTH BROOKS NEARLY PLAYED PRIVATE JACKSON IN SAVING PRIVATE RYAN<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> Mental_Floss\u00a0presents 30 Facts About Your Favorite Steven Spielberg Movies.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 7.\u00a0TOM SELLECK WAS SUPPOSED TO PLAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13988,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions\/13988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nPrior to the production’s start date in May 1980, George Lucas and Spielberg set up shop in the old Lucasfilm corporate headquarters to begin the casting process. Actors and actresses in consideration for the lead roles of Indiana Jones and his tough but beautiful companion Marion Ravenwood included Jane Seymour, Debra Winger, Mark Harmon, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Biehn, Sam Shepard, Valerie Bertinelli, Bruce Boxleitner, Sean Young, Don Johnson, Dee Wallace (who would later go on to star as the mother in Spielberg\u2019s E.T.<\/em>), Barbara Hershey, and even David Hasselhoff.<\/p>\n
\nThough Spielberg is already an extremely wealthy man as a result of the many big-budget movies that have made him one of Hollywood\u2019s most successful directors, he decided that a story as important as\u00a0Schindler\u2019s List<\/em> shouldn\u2019t be made with an eye toward financial reward. The director relinquished his salary for the movie and any proceeds he would stand to make in perpetuity, calling any such personal gains \u201cblood money.\u201d Instead, Spielberg used the film\u2019s profits to found the Shoah Foundation, which was established to honor and remember the survivors of the Holocaust by collecting personal recollections and audio visual interviews.<\/p>\n
\nFrank Darabont was hired to do uncredited rewrites on Saving Private Ryan<\/em>, and created the role of the Bible-quoting sniper, Private Jackson, to be played by country singer Garth Brooks. Brooks dropped out of the movie after Spielberg came onboard and cast Tom Hanks in the lead role. Apparently Brooks didn\u2019t want to play second fiddle to Hanks, but Spielberg offered him a chance to play another role of his choosing. Instead of a specific role, Brooks allegedly said he wanted to play the \u201cbad guy,\u201d but in Saving Private Ryan<\/em> there is no real bad guy other than the entire Wehrmacht, so Spielberg ultimately decided to drop Brooks from the movie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"