Sean Young's recent comments about getting injured and being replaced by Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale

Maybe. She was already famous but it's very noticeable that after Blade Runner and Dune there is almost nothing memorable. Even in a series like Tender is The Night, which I do remember as excellent, I didn't realize she was in it.

https://lebeauleblog.com/2014/11/20/what-might-have-been-sean-young/5/

Young was originally cast as Vicki Vale opposite Michael Keaton in Batman. However, during rehearsals she fell from a horse and broke her collarbone. As a result, she had to drop out of the movie and was replaced at the last minute by Kim Basinger. After the injury, the horse riding scene was cut from the movie.

Fallout: Batman was a big movie. It cemented Basinger as an A-list star. It’s easy to imagine that it would have had a similar impact on Young’s career. Instead, Young’s career cooled through the 90s.

Verdict: Missed Opportunity

I'm starting to think that Sean Young may have a point when she says that they could've plausibly worked around her injury.

*Hollywood was able to work around Jeremy Renner's broken ARMS.

*When Brad Pitt broke his arm on the set of Seven, they wrote it into the movie

*Nicole Kidman injured her knee while filming Moulin Rouge and she was able to film her scenes sitting down

*Daryl Hannah chipped her elbow in eight places and still has a scar following an accident on the set of Blade Runner. They worked around it

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-interesting-ways-an-actors-injuries-were-incorporated-into-the-story-of-the-series-or-movie

https://www.ranker.com/list/real-actor-injuries-written-into-movies/jim-rowley

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/g25448/real-actor-injuries-in-movie-blade-runner-brad-pitt/

https://www.looper.com/221131/actor-injuries-that-were-written-into-storylines/

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WrittenInInfirmity

I of course, don't know for sure how Sean Young would've or could've played Vicki Vale compared to Kim Basinger. It's obviously the biggest "What if..." story to come out of the 1989 era Batman film franchise besides how differently would Batman Forever had turned out had Michael Keaton played Batman instead of Val Kilmer and Billy Dee Williams graduated to becoming Two-Face.

In defense of Sean Young, you could say that she in her own way, displayed a retro movie star siren look in Blade Runner.

https://www.google.com/search?q=blade+runner+sean+young&sxsrf=ALeKk02AvZwhAtEQiUufcpozS1_1v0rMPA:1618370670912&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwir8NDH5PzvAhWBZ80KHSfUDCAQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1600&bih=789

"sucks for Young to have missed out on the biggest movie of the 80s like that"

More like the most overhyped movie of the '80s. E.T. and the two Star Wars movies that were released in the '80s were bigger domestically.