Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey Had been Initially Solid in Jerry Bruckheimer’s BAD BOYS — GeekTyrant

Right here’s a loopy attention-grabbing little bit of what if…? film casting that nearly occurred! Earlier than Will Smith and Martin Lawrence ended up starring in producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s motion comedy Unhealthy Boys, there have been two different actors signed on to star within the movie… SNL alums Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey.

This looks like such weird casting, however it’s true! Lovitz revealed this little bit of film trivia on Rob Lowe’s podcast, Actually! with Rob Lowe, a few years in the past. Not lengthy after that, Bruckheimer got here on the podcast and confirmed the information.

The film was arrange at Disney Studios and this iteration of the movie obtained so far as a display screen take a look at with Michael Bay himself earlier than, in accordance with Bruckheimer, it fell aside as a result of Dana Carvey dropped out. The producer defined:

“There are various tales about what occurred. There’s Jon’s model, and different individuals’s model. However the film by no means obtained made with Jon and anyone else.”

That didn’t cease Bruckheimer from pushing the venture ahead with Michael Bay, who had solely made commercials as much as that time in his profession. When speaking about Bay, it’s defined due to his background in working with promoting purchasers, “he understood how one can take care of the studio, and how one can make them really feel like they have been getting what they wished, and he ended up doing a superb job.”

He did! Bay made a hell of a terrific Unhealthy Boys film that was a lot enjoyable to observe! The massive query is, would the movie have been as profitable and superior had Lovitz and Carvey really starred in it? Or, wouldn’t it have flopped, ending Bay’s function movie directing profession earlier than it even started?

The yr earlier than Unhealthy Boys was launched, Carvey and Lovitz starred in a movie titled Trapped in Paradise with Nicolas Cage, which bombed on the field workplace and it was Carvey’s final film the place he had a lead position.