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If DeNiro did play Cowboy, they would have expanded his role. No way would they make a big name actor a minor star in a low-budget movie.eliminator1 wrote: Not knocking him as an actor, but even in the 70's De Niro would have been too old to be playing a teen gang member. Plus it doesn't make sense to have a big star play one of the smaller role Warriors.
Um... just so you know, Robert DeNiro really WAS going to be Cowboy. We didn't make this up.Wheeljak wrote: Why stop with Cowboy? Why not recast the movie with well-known, established actors? I say cast Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, and Robert Duvall!
No offense, but I find this quite suspect. First of all, the movie would not likely have drawn an Oscar-winning actor. Although it has a good script, let's be honest-- "The Warriors" doesn't have the weight of scripts like The Godfather and Taxi Driver. Second of all, I read somewhere that Walter Hill specifically wanted to cast fresh faces for the movie. Third, as others have said, he was too old for the part. Deniro was already in his late 30s in the late seventies; way too old to play a teenager. Unless I see proof, I will regard this as nothing more than a tall tale, on par with the story that the scream heard in the Ohio Players song "Love Rollercoaster" is a woman getting stabbed.Cowboy Is Cool wrote:Um... just so you know, Robert DeNiro really WAS going to be Cowboy. We didn't make this up.Wheeljak wrote: Why stop with Cowboy? Why not recast the movie with well-known, established actors? I say cast Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, and Robert Duvall!
Are no mate Cowboy Is Cool is right you can look at any warriors articles on wikipedia or the warriors site Robert Deniro was asked to star in the film but rejected the offer for unknown reasons maybe because it wasn't a big budget movie who knows but the point is Cowboy is Cool is right Deniro was gonna play cowboy.Wheeljak wrote:No offense, but I find this quite suspect. First of all, the movie would not likely have drawn an Oscar-winning actor. Although it has a good script, let's be honest-- "The Warriors" doesn't have the weight of scripts like The Godfather and Taxi Driver. Second of all, I read somewhere that Walter Hill specifically wanted to cast fresh faces for the movie. Third, as others have said, he was too old for the part. Deniro was already in his late 30s in the late seventies; way too old to play a teenager. Unless I see proof, I will regard this as nothing more than a tall tale, on par with the story that the scream heard in the Ohio Players song "Love Rollercoaster" is a woman getting stabbed.Cowboy Is Cool wrote:Um... just so you know, Robert DeNiro really WAS going to be Cowboy. We didn't make this up.Wheeljak wrote: Why stop with Cowboy? Why not recast the movie with well-known, established actors? I say cast Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, and Robert Duvall!
They're both right. And besides, if you were a true Warriors fan, you would've known that.Swan 1979 wrote:Are no mate Cowboy Is Cool is right you can look at any warriors articles on wikipedia or the warriors site Robert Deniro was asked to star in the film but rejected the offer for unknown reasons maybe because it wasn't a big budget movie who knows but the point is Cowboy is Cool is right Deniro was gonna play cowboy.Wheeljak wrote:No offense, but I find this quite suspect. First of all, the movie would not likely have drawn an Oscar-winning actor. Although it has a good script, let's be honest-- "The Warriors" doesn't have the weight of scripts like The Godfather and Taxi Driver. Second of all, I read somewhere that Walter Hill specifically wanted to cast fresh faces for the movie. Third, as others have said, he was too old for the part. Deniro was already in his late 30s in the late seventies; way too old to play a teenager. Unless I see proof, I will regard this as nothing more than a tall tale, on par with the story that the scream heard in the Ohio Players song "Love Rollercoaster" is a woman getting stabbed.Cowboy Is Cool wrote: Um... just so you know, Robert DeNiro really WAS going to be Cowboy. We didn't make this up.