"The streets couldn't defeat me; disease couldn't stop me. Even God can't kill me," says Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon in Empire, though he did get booted from the Iron Man franchise and was eventually replaced by Don Cheadle. Awkward.
We're counting down the top 10 times actors got fired from movies after filmmakers decided to take another route.
The list includes Dougray Scott – can you imagine anyone other than Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine – and Samantha Morton – I definitely can't imagine falling in love with anyone else's voice but Scarlett Johansson's in Her.
Never mind Theodore Twombly's story that sees Joaquin Phoenix fall for an Artificial Intelligence system; other films fired actors under more serious circumstances than having the right tone and quality of voice.
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