Fan CastingI Now Pronounce You Joe and Benny (2000)

The original pick for "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" (2007) was made in 1999 to star Will Smith and Nicolas Cage. This how I imagine the film would have been. Joe Valentino is a widowed father and New York fireman who fears that, if he died in a work accident, his children would not receive his health insurance. Hearing that, if married, he could make his spouse his own heir, Joe marries his best friend and coworker Benny Lewis, a womanizer, in a civil ceremony in Vermont. But problems arises when a city agent begins to investigate on their status, and they hire a female lawyer towards whom the straight Benny develops a crush...read more