- John Savage, Salvador, 1985. Oliver Stone booked Paré first, then John Savage, for war photographer John Cassady in a sub-plot behind the main one of James Woods and Jim Belushi’s two losers “set adrift,” said Chicago critic Roger Ebert, “in a world they never made, trying to play games by everybody else’s rules.
- Tom Berenger, Platoon, When writer-director Oliver Stone first nearly set up his Vietnam movie in 1983, Paré was set as the amoral Sergeant Barnes opposite Emilio Estevez as the young hero – finally played by his brother Charlie Sheen.
- Dolph Lundgren, The Punisher, Paré as the comic book hero (aka Frank Castle) would have landed in the video bin two months faster than Dolph’s.
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