Robin Williams Almost Starred In ‘Field Of Dreams,’ Says Kevin

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Movie historical past is affected by almosts. Tom Selleck nearly performed Indiana Jones. Christopher Walken nearly performed Han Solo. John Travolta nearly starred in each American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman. (Both went to Richard Gere as a substitute, making him a star.) And now we’re studying that Field of Dreams — the sentimental baseball traditional — nearly starred Robin Williams.

This information comes from Kevin Costner, the precise star of the 1989 weepie, who broke the information to Entertainment Weekly. Granted, Williams wasn’t the movie’s first alternative; that might be Costner, who nearly needed to drop out of the function fully when filming of the thriller Revenge ran longer than deliberate. When that occurred, filmmaker Phil Alden Robinson hatched a Plan B.

“There was an idea that maybe Robin Williams was going to do it, who I thought was sensational,” Costner mentioned. “And when I finally asked Phil, I said, ‘Well, why did you wait for me? Because I think Robin’s really great.’ And he was like, ‘I do, too. But I think that Robin could hear voices in the corn, and I needed a guy that you don’t believe is going to hear a voice in a corn. And I thought that was a really insightful thing. I get a lot of credit for Field of Dreams and all the credit goes to Phil. I just played it.”