Alternate Roles for early deceased or failed career actors?

There's plenty of actors in modern history that make you ask - what could have been? Maybe they appeared to be very promising at first, but after one bad film were relegated to a smaller spot in Hollywood (e.g. - Brandon Routh). Or perhaps they were a well acclaimed actor who did died before their time (e.g. - Heath Ledger). Lastly, they could just be an established actor who, for whatever reason, took a hiatus or even fully quit the acting business (e.g. - Frankie Muniz).

So let's take the Brandon Routh example. Having recently read the novel The Martian, I feel he could've been more believable as the character Mark Watney as originally written. Similarly Ledger certainly would've been offered changes to act in other Nolan flicks such as Inception.
 
With the advances in AI the things You mention above may soon be possible.

But to the point,

John Ritter as the original Ant Man would be interesting.

Michael Biehn as Iron Man perhaps

Mr. T, T as in Terminator

Roger Duvall as Hannibal Lector

Peter Weller as Han Solo

Alicia Silverstone in Titanic as Rose

Chloe Sevigny as Princess Amidala
 
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