Johnny Depp as Ferris Bueller
Movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Played by: Matthew Broderick
John Hughes, for middle-American white kids, was the 1980s. Johnny Depp wasn’t in Hughes wheelhouse, but he wasn’t a stretch for the audience. Whether the rumor is true that Depp had a shot at Bueller is almost irrelevant. Hughes made it clear that he wrote the role for Broderick. If Depp was on the short list of backups, it’s only true in the alternate universe theory. In that universe, Depp married Sarah Jessica Parker.