‘Almosts’: Actors who missed out on big roles

Pour one out for what could have been. Before Kate Winslet and Idris Elba signed on to star in The Mountain Between Us

(in theaters Friday), a survival romance adapted from Charles Martin’s 2010 novel of the same name, Michael Fassbender, Charlie Hunnam, Rosamund Pike and Margot Robbie were all attached to play the respective central duo, according to Indie Wire and Deadline. USA TODAY’s

Patrick Ryan has five more instances of actors who could have been in some of the biggest movies of the past few years.