10 Movies That Ruined Perfect Casts With One Bad Choice

10. Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves – Kevin Costner

Hot on the trail of successful films like Field of Dreams and the Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves, Kevin Costner was quite the bankable star so it probably made perfect sense for director Kevin Reynolds to cast him in the title role of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

What doesn’t make sense though is that while Alan Rickman gives a delightfully hammy and BAFTA-winning performance as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Morgan Freeman is as wise as ever as Moorish sidekick Azeem, Costner, while playing one of England’s most famous folk heroes, doesn’t even seem to attempt anything resembling a passable British accent.

Befittingly, Costner was awarded a Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor for his Americanized take on Robin Hood but bad acting isn’t the film’s only legacy. It’s also responsible for inflicting Bryan Adam’s cheesy ballad (Everything I Do) I Do It for You – which spent an estimated 6,000 years at number one in the UK music charts – upon the world.

Thanks for that.