History TheOtherDarrin / Film

** Barbara Murray took over Ammonia from Elizabeth Larner.

* ''Film/ConfessonsOfASeries'': Mrs. Lea was at first played by Creator/DandyNichols, then Creator/DorisHare in all the sequels.

* In the 2010 ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'', Andromeda was played by Alexa Davalos and was brunette. In ''Wrath of the Titans'', she was played by Rosamund Pike, who is blonde.

** Tommy Doyle is played by Brian Andrews in the original film, Creator/PaulRudd in ''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Mayers'', and Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall in ''Film/HalloweenKills''. Rudd was approached to reprise his role in ''Kills'', but was unavailable due to him being busy with ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife''.

* In ''[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief]]'', the centaur Chiron is played by Creator/PierceBrosnan. In the sequel ''Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters'', the role is taken up by Creator/AnthonyHead.

** In ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'', J.C. Brandy took over for Creator/DanielleHarris as Jamie Lloyd, who played the role as a child in the [[Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers previous]] [[two Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers films]]. Harris even sat down for an interview for the 2014 Blu-ray release to discuss why she chose not to return. Apparently producers had wanted to recast the role from the beginning of production with an actress over 18, but Harris (17 at the time) got herself legally emancipated so she could work on the film. However the role was heavily reduced at the last minute, and Harris refused to work for scale, in part because it would not even cover the court costs she spent to get herself emancipated. She also disagreed with the script, and was not happy with how she was being treated by the production team.

* Creator/LizFraser played Mrs. Pike in ''Film/DadsArmy1971'' rather than Janet Davies (who had played her in ''Series/DadsArmy'') at the order of Columbia Pictures.

** Michael Hordern was the third Ludicrus Sextus after Max Adrian and Wallas Eaton.

* The Russian dub of ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' was produced in Georgia instead of Russia itself due to many Hollywood studios boycotting the country following the invasion of Ukraine. As a result, all returning characters were re-cast. For example, Andrej Bibikaŭ replaced Vsevolod Kuznetsov as the titular character, while Kitty [=Softpaws=], voiced by Tatiana Shitova in [[WesternAnimation/PussInBoots the previous film]], is now voiced by Diana Nersesova.

* The Russian dub of ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' was produced in Georgia instead of Russia itself due to many Hollywood studios boycotting the country following the invasion of Ukraine. As a result, all returning characters were re-cast. For example, Andrej Bibikaŭ replaced Vsevolod Kuznetsov as the titular character, while Kitty [=Softpaws=], voiced by Tatiana Shitova in [[WesternAnimation/PussTheBoots the previous film]], is now voiced by Diana Nersesova.

* The Russian dub of ''Film/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' was produced in Georgia instead of Russia itself due to many Hollywood studios boycotting the country following the invasion of Ukraine. As a result, all returning characters were re-cast. For example, Andrej Bibikaŭ replaced Vsevolod Kuznetsov as the titular character, while Kitty [=Softpaws=], voiced by Tatiana Shitova in [[Film/PussTheBoots the previous film]], is now voiced by Diana Nersesova.

* Lampshaded in the second ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', when the narrator stops to ask who the title character (played by Chris Showerman) is, to which he replies, "Me New George. Producers too cheap to get Brendan Fraser." Other references to Fraser appear throughout the movie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', the Master of Games was voiced by Creator/JimCummings1952. In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoVsTeenTitans'', he's voiced by Rhys Darby. Granted, he also looks different and [[spoiler:the version in the film is actually the Trigon of ''Go''.]]

* ''Series/OnTheBuses'' films:
** Nobby was played by Norman Mitchell in the series but was recast with Terry Duggan in ''Film/OnTheBuses''. Oddly enough, Mitchell still appears in the film, but as a London Transport official.
** Wayne Westhorpe played Little Arthur in ''Film/MutinyOnTheBuses'', but Adam Rhodes took over the role in ''Film/HolidayOnTheBuses''.

* In ''Film/FuriosaAMadMaxSaga'', a younger Furiosa is portrayed by Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy, succeeding Creator/CharlizeTheron from ''Film/MadMadFuryRoad''. Since Creator/HughKeaysByrne passed away in 2020 before the filming happened, another actor portrays Immortan Joe.

* The ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' films had Creator/JudithHoag play April O'Neil in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first film]] and Paige Turco play her in the last two. Likewise, Donatello was voiced by Corey Feldman in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first]] and [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII third]] movies but was unavailable in the second due to a stint in rehab and was voiced by Adam Carl. Raphael had a different voice actor in each of the three films (Josh Pais, Laurie Faso, and Tim Kelleher respectively). Also, Master Splinter was voiced by Kevin Clash[[note]]a.k.a. [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]][[/note]] in the first two films and by James Murray in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII third]].

* The movie adaptation of the series ''Fanfic/{{After}}'' is somewhat infamous for several recasts among major characters. The changes most likely were born due to a mix of complications with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first movie was filmes in the US, in Atlanta; the second and the third movie, however, were filmed in Bulgaria, and were filmed concurrently, making for a long time actors had to spend in a foreign land in the midst of a pandemic, conflicting with other schedules the actors might have. This led to several roles having to be recast, with at least one character being written out after the second movie due to the actor not wanting to return.

* Rachelle Lefèvre played vampire villainess Victoria in ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' and ''New Moon''. Due to scheduling conflicts, she was replaced by Creator/BryceDallasHoward for ''Eclipse''.

** Michael Moyers rarely had a consistent actor, sometimes even within the same film.

** ''Everybody'' outside of the Terminator in ''Film/TerminatorGenisys''. Creator/EmiliaClarke as Sarah Connor and Creator/JaiCourtney as Kyle Reese are justified from a meta-standpoint as this is based in the time of the original film but produced decades later, so Creator/LindaHamilton and Creator/MichaelBiehn have aged. Additionally, Creator/CourtneyBVance replaced Creator/JoeMorton as Miles Dyson, but [[spoiler:this is less justified and even invoked WTHCastingAgency reactions as when we see Dyson in the altered timeline, it's 2017 and hence Dyson didn't require a younger actor like Sarah and Kyle did]]. The T-1000 going from Caucasian Creator/RobertPatrick to South Korean actor Byung-hun Lee could be summed up as a different disguise. However, this doesn't explain why John Connor undergoes this again, as Creator/ChristianBale was replaced by Creator/JasonClarke, unless Bale's F-bomb meltdown on the set of ''Salvation'' cost him the part.

* ''Film/TheExorcistIII'':
** Lee J. Cobb died in 1976, so the part of William F. Kinderman was recast with Creator/GeorgeCScott. A bit of a meta BrickJoke, as Scott also plays another character previously played by Cobb: Juror #3 of ''Film/TwelveAngryMen''. Creator/GeorgeCScott was a pretty good choice to replace the (deceased) Creator/LeeJCobb as Lt. Kinderman in this sequel, [[SeparatedAtBirthCasting not only on account of his similarly craggy facial features]], but because Cobb and Scott appeared on stage in many of the same roles, often as ornery, curmudgeonly characters.
** Father Dyer was originally played in the first film by the Reverend William O’Malley, a real-life Jesuit priest. O'Malley decided not to pursue acting any further after that film, and was replaced by Ed Flanders in this film.
** Father Kanavan (the elderly priest murdered in the confession booth played by Harry Carey Jr.) was the same character played by Father Thomas Bermingham (an actual Jesuit Priest) in ''Film/TheExorcist''.
** Pazuzu is voiced by a different actor in each film, being played by Mercedes [=McCambridge=] and Ron Faber in ''Film/TheExorcist'', Karen Knapp in ''Film/ExorcistIITheHeretic'', Colleen Dewhurst in ''The Exorcist III'', Rupert Degas in ''Film/ExorcistTheBeginning'', and Creator/MaryBethHurt in ''Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist''.

* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' - Pamela Voorhees and Tommy Jarvis are both portrayed by multiple actors throughout the series. Not to mention Jason himself, though for a while there was consistency as Kane Hodder played him for five movies.

* In ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'', J.C. Brandy took over for Creator/DanielleHarris as Jamie Lloyd, who played the role as a child in the previous two films. Harris even sat down for an interview for the 2014 Blu-ray release to discuss why she chose not to return. Apparently producers had wanted to recast the role from the beginning of production with an actress over 18, but Harris (17 at the time) got herself legally emancipated so she could work on the film. However the role was heavily reduced at the last minute, and Harris refused to work for scale, in part because it would not even cover the court costs she spent to get herself emancipated. She also disagreed with the script, and was not happy with how she was being treated by the production team.

* ''Film/OnTheBuses'': Nobby was played by Norman Mitchell in [[Series/OnTheBuses the series]] but was recast with Terry Duggan in the film. Oddly enough, Mitchell still appears in the film, but as a London Transport official.

** The second major recasting in the franchise was the role of Gellert Grindelwald between the second and third ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' installments. Creator/JohnnyDepp, the original actor, was fired after he lost a domestic violence related defamation case in the UK in late 2020. He sued a tabloid who called him a "wife beater" in the context of him staying in the franchise despite domestic violence allegations from ex-wife Creator/AmberHeard. However, he lost the case when the judge ruled that 12 of the 14 instances brought forth in court met the civil bar for DV (one was inconclusive and one hadn't had a full deposition so it wasn't ruled on) and was fired a few days after the ruling, in the middle of the [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore third film's]] production. [[note]]Allegedly WB had done its own investigation into the situation that came to a similar conclusion as the court case and made the decision to fire him then but were just waiting for some sort of ruling from either the UK or another case in the US to fire him.[[/note]] His replacement Creator/MadsMikkelsen was officially signed on within three weeks of his firing. As with Dumbledore, the change goes unmentioned and the new actor didn’t chose to mimic the original in anyway. Mikkelsen plays the character much less stoically and much less overtly evil. A couple of dubs also changed from Depp's regular VA to Mikkelsen's including in Japanese where Creator/KazuhikoInoue replaced Creator/HiroakiHirata and in Latin American Spanish where Creator/GerardoReyero replaced Creator/RicardoTejedo. Funnily enough, that also gives the franchise its first intance of TheDanza because Gerardo and Gellert are different version of the same name and the character's name is Gerardo in many translations.