10 Actors Who Got Kicked Out Of Their Own Movie Franchises

10 Actors Who Got Kicked Out Of Their Own Movie Franchises

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Putting together a successful movie franchise is incredibly challenging at the best of times, but if there's one thing that audiences love about them, it's the consistency that comes with a familiar face leading the charge.

Everyone watches the Mission: Impossible movies expecting the reliable insanity of Tom Cruise, and if he were suddenly removed from the series, interest would surely wane considerably.

Yet there are many instances of name actors having juicy roles ripped away from them for a multitude of reasons, be it their own personal problems, a change in direction at the heart of the studio, or perhaps something a little more ambiguous that's still being debated to this day.

Whether these films suffered or succeeded as a result of their recasting, each nevertheless left fans enormously miffed, while the actors themselves often expressed their frustration at being deprived of roles that could've netted them millions in future earnings.

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