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Imagine the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger standing at the top of Dinohattan’s food chain. It nearly had that possibility on its casting board. Schwarzenegger was approached to play King Koopa, the film’s version of Bowser, but declined. Dennis Hopper became the villain audiences actually saw. It is an irresistible casting what-if, partly because the finished movie already feels like an alternate universe. Mario’s enemy became a human-looking ruler… Read more