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Harry Hamlin should have played Jim..

posted 10 years ago by MonteCarloMan
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Think of his hair in Clash of the Titans very Morrison-like. Anyone else agree?

I certainly do agree!

I always thought how much he resembled Morrison in that film but wondered if he could pull it off with his acting abilities as well. Plus The Doors was made a decade later and how did Hamlin look by this point? x

[–] MonteCarloMan 9 years ago

Yeah, he would have been too old by then...

[–] PanteraRosado 9 years ago

Imagine, John Travolta!

Instead of Hamlin, Daniel Day Lewis crossed my mind at one point.

Dalton and Craig! Accept NO substitutes!

[–] MonteCarloMan 9 years ago

Bump^

[–] konover 9 years ago

Harry Hamlin sucks.

Nobody would've watched it.

[–] houstonhacker 9 years ago

Jim Carrey or Kevin Bacon/Tom Cruise

[–] psmithyyyyy 8 years ago

harry Hamlin looks much more like jim Morrison then val, but he wasn't a big name.

[–] jenrene-45330 7 years ago

Oh hell no, Val Kilmer killed it, his vocals were gorgeous.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (67417785) 8 years ago

Val was prefect but I do remember hearing that Jason Patric was considered. That would have been interesting.

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[–] PrometheusTree64 7 years ago

Kilmer was perfect casting, flawed as the film may be. I can see Harry Hamlin in the role, but he was almost 40 at the time.

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[–] tsrts 7 years ago

Could have worked, but Val Kilmer was in his early 30s when they made The Doors,
and Harry Hamlin was pushing 40. Jim Morrison was in his 20s during the time period of the film. Kilmer was the better choice, and he is a bigger star.

[–] tsrts 7 years ago

Think of his hair in Clash of the Titans very Morrison-like. Anyone else agree?

Agreed, but Clash of The Titans was filmed in '79,
when he would have been about the right age for Morisson.
The Doors movie was made 11 years later.