James Gandolfini in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

He may have been in the film’s initial trailer and credited in its poster, but James Gandolfini is nowhere to be seen in the final version of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. The movie adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel casts newcomer Thomas Horn as an autistic boy trying to find the lock to a key he finds in the belongings of his father (Tom Hanks) who died in the Twin Towers. The Sopranos star was cast as a potential love interest for Sandra Bullock’s character, a 9/11 widow, but test audiences disliked their scenes together, and Gandolfini’s performance was subsequently cut.