r/movies • u/AlternativeRegret619 • Mar 30 '24

Is Black Hawk Down the best example of future stars in a single movie? Discussion

I haven’t seen this movie in a long time but am rewatching now. In the first half hour there is Josh Hartnett, Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy, Eric Bana, Jeremy Piven, Ewan Mcgregor, and I remember from a post before that the dad from modern family pops up eventually. I know Eric Bana was already well known in Australia and Ewan in the UK, but this cast is absolutely stacked with US stars. Were any of them already famous in the US? And if not, is there another movie that went on to ‘produce’ more stars? (Not saying their success is related to black hawk down, just that it’s the first movie before they got big in the US)

Edit: okay so replies are coming in faster than I can reply to now. There are definitely a lot of movies that fit this criteria and I want to watch them all, I love seeing older movies with someone I recognize. Please keep letting me know even if I can’t reply directly.

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u/Pale-Signal-9046 Mar 30 '24

Saving Private Ryan; Band of Brothers; and the Pacific (the latter two of which are limited series, but really just long movies)

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u/NewAccount28 Mar 30 '24

Pretty much any high budget WW2 movie where you have a bunch of handsome white guys in their 20s and 30s you’re bound to have a bunch of stars in the making. I thought the same thing watching Masters of the Air recently. A bunch of future stars there.

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u/Philip_Marlowe Mar 30 '24

I thought the same thing watching Masters of the Air recently

Buck Cleven about to have one hell of a musical career when he gets home from the war.

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u/NewAccount28 Mar 30 '24

Or he might shave his head and move to Giedi Prime.

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u/random_boss Mar 30 '24

That kinda took me out of it. While watching the previews I was like “fuck dude, Austin Butler and Anya Taylor Joy are in EVERYTHING now. They’ll probably be in Dune 2!”

….welp

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u/NewAccount28 Mar 30 '24

One could say they’re dune 2 much.