Those characters you didn't realize had been recast for the small screen.

BY ANDREW POLLARD
NOVEMBER 16TH, 2022

Given how successful ideas tend to be revisited time and time again, it's no surprise to see that not only do celebrated movies get sequels, prequels and remakes, but certain beloved pictures also find their tale being adapted for the small screen.

While some of these may loosely adapt a movie as a TV show, others straight-up tell the beat-for-beat story of the film on which they're based - complete with the same characters appearing.

Now, it's not unknown for actors to reprise their movie roles for TV, but often a role will be recast for the small screen, especially at times when TV wasn't as lucrative as business as it is these days. Of course, some of these new takes on familiar characters are well known by the masses, yet there are times when a character has been recast for a TV offering without mainstream audiences even being aware of that. And it's on those instances that the focus is on here.

Here, then, are ten movie characters that you likely didn't realize had been recast and played by someone different in TV land.

10. Wayne Szalinski - Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?rf=homepage)

9. Darth Maul - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=2)

8. Bryan Mills - Taken (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=3)

7. The Crow - The Crow: Stairway To Heaven (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=4)

6. Dottie Hinson - A League Of Their Own (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=5)

5. Lestat De Lioncourt - Interview With The Vampire (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=6)

4. Cher Horowitz - Clueless (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=7)

3. Buck Russell - Uncle Buck (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=8)

2. Ferris Bueller - Ferris Bueller (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=9)

1. Santanico Pandemonium - From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (https://whatculture.com/film/10-movie-roles-you-didnt-know-were-recast-on-tv?page=10)