Imagine Beatty in the Paul Newman part and you can kind of see it, but what about the Redford part? Apparently, Redford wasn't cast yet and Beatty had a mighty strange idea for his co-lead. Yes, that's right, he wanted Elvis Presley. Ultimately, though, Beatty did not appear in the film, reportedly because he found the two-hander was too similar to his recent "Bonnie and Clyde". Now, picturing Beatty and Elvis in those parts is a fascinating "What if?" but what the public got was probably the best possible version of that movie...

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Imagine Beatty in the Paul Newman part and you can kind of see it, but what about the Redford part? Apparently, Redford wasn't cast yet and Beatty had a mighty strange idea for his co-lead. Yes, that's right, he wanted Elvis Presley. Ultimately, though, Beatty did not appear in the film, reportedly because he found the two-hander was too similar to his recent "Bonnie and Clyde". Now, picturing Beatty and Elvis in those parts is a fascinating "What if?" but what the public got was probably the best possible version of that movie..." in the context of "About Warren Beatty having chosen Elvis as his co-star in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a movie which he later passed on, in an article by Eric Vespe entitled "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid could've starred Warren Beatty And Elvis" as published in the November 8, 2022 edition of Slash Film" to mean that wisdom is timeless.