10 Movie Roles Harrison Ford Turned Down

5. Captain Dallas (Alien)

In terms of genre greats, Ridley Scott's Alien is a perfect meshing of horror and science-fiction. Would it have been even greater with Harrison Ford on board, though? Having already appeared in a small space opera known as Star Wars, Ford was offered the role of Captain Dallas in Scott's 1979 movie. The actor, of course, turned down a role in the film, and one trail of thought is that he rejected the gig because he didn't want to be associated with another space-based picture so soon after having already travelled to a galaxy far, far away - especially when he was apparently already tied to The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi by that point in time. The man who did take on the Dallas role was Tom Skerritt, with the doomed gaffer of the Nostromo meeting a sticky end at the hands of the Xenomorph. If Ford had taken the role, he'd have certainly brought some of his legendary charisma to Captain Dallas, and that would've also thrown up questions over whether the poor Captain would've made it out of the film alive given the fact that Ford was well on his way to becoming one of the biggest names on the planet at that stage.
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