9 William Hurt As Dr. Alan Grant, the role was offered to William Hurt, now best known as the MCU’s General “Thunderbolt” Ross, but he turned it down.

Harrison Ford was offered the role of Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. George Lucas didn’t get it, because he thought of Ford only as Han Solo.

Casting. William Hurt was initially offered the role of Alan Grant, but turned it down without reading the script. Harrison Ford was also offered the role of Grant, before Sam Neill was ultimately cast three or four weeks before filming began.

Director Mike Nichols rejected the then 25-year-old Ford for The Graduate’s Benjamin Braddock, who ended up being played by Dustin Hoffman. Nichols and Ford finally worked together in Working Girl (1988) and Regarding Henry (1991), the latter of which was written by The Force Awakens’ writer-director J.J. Abrams.

Harrison Ford turned down the lead role in Traffic.

Tom Selleck

“After I did the pilot for Magnum, I tested for Indiana Jones and got the job,” Selleck explained in an interview with BUILD series. “Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] offered me the job. I signed a deal for Magnum, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Tom Selleck turned down Raiders of the Lost Ark so he could work on Magnum P.I.. But we don’t really see Indy with a mustache, either. George Lucas originally didn’t want to give Harrison Ford the role of Indiana Jones because he disliked the idea of reusing actors from his previous films.

Jones himself was not a professor at Chicago. He taught at two fictional schools — Marshall College in Bedford, Conn. and Barnett College in Fairfield, N.Y. — according to the storyline.

For those familiar with Call Of Duty’s previous World War II titles, this will be no surprise. Under § 86a of the German constitution, all symbols and greetings related to the Third Reich have been banned. This ruling impacted older entries like Call Of Duty: World At War and Call Of Duty: Finest Hour.