Before he ended up in Pawnee, Indiana, "Parks and Recreation‘s" Chris Pratt could have played the title role on NBC’s "Chuck" — but it wasn’t meant to be.

“He was the first guy I wanted to play Chuck,” series co-creator Josh Schwartz told the now-defunct HitFix in 2014. “But as fate would have it, he was destined to guard the galaxy, not the Buy More. And might I add, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.”

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