How would they replace snipes with omar epps? i lost all intentions of watching prt 2 after i find out that snipes was replaced. LikE we wouldnt notice, and if we did they expected us to go with ie. NOT ME!!
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I didn't like it either. This happens in movies from time to time. I think Snipes was busy doing another movie. Instead of them waiting for him, they went ahead and made it without him.
sharethe funny part is, the movie might have worked better with snipes again....epps is a great actor, but snipes was such a key to the first movie, that it just seems forced. It would have been easier for them to write him out of the script.....
shareEpps a great actor??? Hmm, don't know about that...
Plus he was a jerk on the ML II set, would just hangout with his 'entourage' and smoke pot up in the bleachers, but you didn't hear that from me ;o)
Snipes was too busy to reprise the role
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I feel the same way.
shareYes I was a little troubled myself.. And actually wanted to know what movie he was working on @ the time. Drop Zone (1994) .... Pete Nessip
Sugar Hill (1994) .... Roemello Skuggs
... aka Harlem
Demolition Man (1993) .... Simon Phoenix
Rising Sun (1993) .... Lt. Webster Smith
Boiling Point (1993/I) .... Jimmy Mercer
There was an article somewhere back in the day that said Snipes wanted to come back but couldn't because of "scheduling conflicts". I don't know if that was the truth but that's what was said.
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I was a kid when these came out, and couldn't tell. They look the same and the character is not as important and Sheen's. Omar was a good replacement I reckon.
shareBy the time this movie was made Snipes had already made Passenger 57,Boiling Point, and White men Can't jump. I don't think they could afford him for this movie.
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shareThey look the same?!! o.O
Enough is enough! I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday thru Friday plane!
I re-watched ML 1 & 2 last night and I didn't feel like the movie missed a beat with Epps in the role. Snipes was funny in the original film, but I didn't think his character made the movie. I like Snipes, but never really thought he was such a hot actor.
Snipes was strong in the first Major League movie, but then he was replaced because, apparently, he thought he was too busy becoming a huge action film star to come back. This was actually lampooned in the beginning of Major League II when Willie Hayes, now played by Epps, failed at becoming an action star with Jesse Ventura. For the record, I don't think Epps was really any worse than Snipes.
shareI didn't mind Epps since he plays in Scream II and House M.D. I like him I'm just dissapointed @ Wesley cause its like Chris Tucker in the Friday Trilogy a bail out/want more money seeker
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I thought Epps did a great job. He mimmicked Snipes just enough that I could accept him as Hayes but not so much that he appeared a caricature. I think the problem with this sequel is the plot was just a retread of the first and had no freshness.
shareSnipes was totally unknown and ML might have been his first movie. By 1994, Snipes was a big star and the film wouldn't have been able to get him at least not at a salary the movie could afford (even if Snipes was interested).
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Beyond the fact that he'd become a major star between the two movies, I remember reading a comment where Snipes said that after the 1st Major League, he'd never make another movie with Charlie Sheen. Sheen was at the height of his wildman behavior back then, so it doesn't surprise me if he rubbed Wesley the wrong way.
shareMajor League 2 had a terrible script, why would any actor with other options make this movie?
Good for Snipes.
Hopefully that is a rhetorical question.
Particularly for a sequel of a successful movie, studios often have to overpay to get certain principals to return, particularly if the producers didn't anticipate a sequel/franchise and get them contractually locked up before the first movie.
I think Eddie Murphy said it best when someone asked him about that POS Beverly Hills Cop III:
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Beverly Hills Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.