Fonda found it "repulsive." Good! Now we have the banger that is Death Wish 3. Still, as good as Henry Fonda would have been, it's hard to believe that the Death Wish name would have lived on in the way that it has without Bronson pushing these movies to the extreme. You might have ended up with a more serious and nuanced performance at the center though - just look at Kevin Bacon's work in James Wan's Death Sentence, a loose adaptation of one of the original Death Wish novels. You wouldn't have the Death Wish franchise that we ended up with if Charles Bronson hadn't taken on the role of Paul Kersey. Scott feels like a good middle ground between Fonda and Bronson, but if you're looking for the right actor to give us the franchise that we ended up with, then it's hard to argue that anyone would have done it better than what we got. Scott was tapped for the role, sought after because of his "everyman" qualities, but he turned the part down because of the violence in the script. Would Fonda have done that for us? Probably not. Bronson was willing to take audiences all the way to Death Wish V: The Face of Death and kicked ass the entire way there. With a more dramatic actor in the role, we probably would've ended up with a less fun series of movies.
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