25 Things You Didn't Know About Alien

23. Harrison Ford Turned Down The Role Of Dallas

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Before Tom Skerritt landed the role as The Nostromo's doomed captain, it was offered to the now legendary Harrison Ford.

Ford turned the role down, however, and although the reason has never been officially stated it's likely that having just recently starred in a little-known space opera called Star Wars, he wanted to avoid being typecast. Despite speculation that his star power may well have influenced who survived to the end of the film, it was actually Skerritt who was more famous at the time, so this is unlikely.

Ford would go on to work with Ridley Scott just a few years later, starring in a little-known cult film called Blade Runner.

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