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The following is a list of unproduced Marlon Brando projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film Actor, Marlon Brando had worked on a number of projects but has either turned down or has to turned down. Some of these projects were made or were oficially cancelled.

Film projects turned down or incomplete

Year	Title	Role (If taken)	Actor(s) Take The Role	Director	Notes
1950	Sunset Boulevard	Joe Gillis	William Holden	Billy Wilder	He was deemed too much of an unknown.
1952	High Noon	Will Kane	Gary Cooper	Fred Zinnemann
1952	Sudden Fear	Lester Blaine	Jack Palance	David Miller	Joan Crawford approached Brando for the role
1954	The Egyptian	Sinuhe	Edmund Purdom	Michael Curtiz
1954	Senso	Franz Mahler	Farley Granger	Luchino Visconti	According to his book, Include me Out, Farley Granger states that he was the second choice for the leading male role after Brando turned it down. History would repeat when Brando also turned down the starring role in "the Egyptian" which in turn Granger turned down.
1954	Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black)	Julien Sorel	Gérard Philipe	Claude Autant-Lara	Brando accepted the part, but he walked off production of the film after clashing with French director Claude Autant-Lara.
1954	A Star Is Born	Norman Lester	James Mason	George Cukor
1955	East of Eden	Cal Trask	James Dean	Elia Kazan	Kazan considered casting Brando as Cal, before deciding he was too old for the role at 30.
1955	Marty	Marty Piletti	Rod Steiger	Delbert Mann	United Artists pushed for Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster to cast Marlon Brando in the title role. The studio felt that Brando was a more recognizable star and would make the film more appealing to the audience. Hecht and Lancaster balked at the suggestion and pursued a lesser-known cast for the film
1956	Baby Doll	Archie Lee Meighan	Karl Malden	Elia Kazan
1956	The Conqueror	Genghis Khan	John Wayne	Dick Powell	Shot near a nuclear test site in Nevada, Of the 220 film cast and crew members, 91 (comprising 41.36% of the crew) developed cancer during their lifetime, while 46 (or 20.91%) died from it, including John Wayne and Susan Hayward.
1956	Giant	Jett Rink	James Dean	George Stevens
1956	Autumn Leaves	Burt Hanson	Cliff Robertson	Robert Aldrich	Joan Crawford wanted Marlon Brando to play opposite her as the mentally ill Burt Hanson
1956	Rebel Without A Cause	Jim Stark	James Dean	Nicholas Ray	Producer Jerry Wald had Brando lined up for a movie version of Dr. Robert M. Lindner's non-fiction work about the analysis of a young criminal. The project was shelved, but later, reconstituted with another script concept and leading man.
1957	A Face in the Crowd	Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes	Andy Griffith	Elia Kazan
1957	The Man with the Golden Arm	Frankie Machine	Frank Sinatra	Otto Preminger
1958	The Defiant Ones	John "Joker" Jackson	Tony Curtis	Stanley Kramer
1959	Ben-Hur	Judah Ben-Hur	Charlton Heston	William Wyler
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	Hans Rolfe	Maximilian Schell	Stanley Kramer	In a rare effort to actually obtain a part, he showed interest in the role, even approaching Kramer about it.
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	T. E. Lawrence	Peter O'Toole	David Lean	Brando preferred to appear in Mutiny on the Bounty instead due to its pleasanter filming location, Tahiti, and munificenter pay. "I'll be damned if I'll spend two years of my life on some fucking camel," he said.
1962	Lolita	Humbert E. Humbert	James Mason	Stanley Kubrick	Stanley Kubrick approached Brando for the role
1963	Cleopatra	Marc Anthony	Richard Burton	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	He chose to make Mutiny on the Bounty instead.
1965	Doctor Zhivago	Victor Ipolitovich Komarovsky	Rod Steiger	David Lean
1967	The Graduate	Mr. Robinson	Murray Hamilton	Mike Nichols
1968	Planet of the Apes	George Taylor	Charlton Heston	Franklin J. Schaffner
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Either Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid	Robert Redford	George Roy Hill	He felt it was too similar to One-Eyed Jacks and made Burn! instead.
1969	The Arrangement	Eddie Anderson	Kirk Douglas	Elia Kazan	He was Kazan's original choice, but he pulled out, citing that he couldn't make such a lightweight film following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1970	Little Big Man	Old Lodge Skins	Chief Dan George	Arthur Penn
1970	Performance	Chas	James Fox	Donald Cammell	Cammell sent Brando the first draft of a screenplay entitled The Liars. Notwithstanding the prospect of co-starring with Mick Jagger, Brando wasn’t keen on playing an American hitman in London and was so busy with other projects that Cammell decided to cut his losses and approach James Fox for what was now called Performance
1970	Ryan's Daughter	Major Randolph Doryan	Christopher Jones	David Lean	He was Lean's original choice for the role, but he had to drop out when filming of Burn! overran in South Africa.
1971	Dirty Harry	Harry Callahan	Clint Eastwood	Don Siegel
1972	Deliverance	Lewis Medlock	Burt Reynolds	John Boorman
1972	Child's Play	Joseph Dobbs	Robert Preston	Sidney Lumet	Brando backed out just before principal photography was to begin when he realized James Mason had the better part. Brando subsequently was sued by producer David Merrick for breach of contract.
1972	Fat City	Billy Tully	Stacy Keach	John Huston	Huston initially wanted Brando to star. When Brando informed Huston repeatedly that he needed some more time to think about it, Huston finally came to the conclusion that the star wasn't really interested and looked out for another actor until he finally cast the then relatively unknown Stacy Keach.
1973	The Exorcist	Lankester Merrin	Max von Sydow	William Friedkin	The studio wanted Brando to play Father Merrin but Friedkin felt he was too big a star.
1974	The Great Gatsby	Jay Gatsby	Robert Redford	Jack Clayton	Paramount studio brass wanted him to appear as the titular character, but he wanted $4 million, an unheard-of salary at the time.
1974	The Godfather Part II	Vito Corleone		Francis Ford Coppola	Brando was scheduled to make a cameo appearance in the film, in the flashback at the end of the film in which Vito Corleone comes back to his home and is greeted with a surprise birthday party. In fact, he was expected the day of shooting but did not show up due to a salary dispute.
1974	The Conversation	Harry Caul	Gene Hackman	Francis Ford Coppola	Coppola envisioned Brando for the role. The director shared that the script pre-dated their first meeting, but when he sent the screenplay to Brando, he casually rejected Coppola’s overtures by flatly informing him that “it’s not for me.”
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Randle Patrick "R.P." McMurphy	Jack Nicholson	Miloš Forman	Brando declined the offer to play the role.
1976	A Star Is Born	John Norman Howard	Kris Kristofferson
1976	Taxi Driver	Travis Bickle	Robert De Niro	Martin Scorsese
1977	Equus	Martin Dysart	Richard Burton	Sidney Lumet
1980	Superman II	Jor-El		Richard Lester	Marlon Brando finished all his scenes for both two Superman films early into production, successfully sued the Salkinds, producers of the film, for $50 million over grossed profits gained from the first film. In response, the Salkinds cut Brando from the film, replacing his scenes with actress Susannah York. His scenes were restored in the 2006 re-cut of the film, titled Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut.
1982	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	Ben Kingsley	Richard Attenborough	Archives from Richard Attenboroughs estate reveal that Attenborough wanted Brando for the role
1984	Nineteen Eighty-Four	O'Brien	Richard Burton	Michael Radford
1986	Salvador	Richard Boyle	James Woods	Oliver Stone
1987	The Untouchables	Al Capone	Robert DeNiro	Brian De Palma
1987	Angel Heart	Louis Cyphere	Robert De Niro	Alan Parker
1987	The Sicilian	Don Masino Croce	Joss Ackland	Michael Cimino	Brando was offered 5 Million for 3 weeks of work playing a Mafia don, but Brando turned the offer down.
1987	The Last Emperor	Reginald Johnston	Peter O'Toole	Bernardo Bertolucci
1988	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Preston Tucker	Jeff Bridges	Francis Ford Coppola	The director wanted Brando to appear as Preston Tucker in his biopic of the maverick automotive executive that Coppola planned to make after completing The Godfather Part II. Brando was not interested.
1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Vulcan	Oliver Reed	Terry Gilliam
1988	The Presidio	Ross Maclure	Jack Warden	Peter Hyams
1990	Dances with Wolves	Major Fambrough	Maury Chaykin	Kevin Costner
1990	The Field	Bull McCabe	Richard Harris	Jim Sheridan
1991	Nostromo (incomplete)			David Lean	Brando was scheduled to appear with co-stars Paul Scofield, Peter O'Toole, Isabella Rossellini, Christopher Lambert, and Dennis Quaid. However, when director David Lean died, the production came to a halt.
1991	JFK	X	Donald Sutherland	Oliver Stone
1995	Divine Rapture (incomplete)	A Priest			The project included stars like Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and John Hurt. Production was never completed due to a lack of financing.
1997	U Turn	Blind Man	Jon Voight	Oliver Stone
1998	The Big Lebowski	Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski	David Huddleston	Joel Coen	The Coen Brothers wanted Brando to play the role and even had him in mind while writing the script but Brando couldn't star in the movie due to ill health.
1998	American History X	Cameron Alexander	Stacy Keach	Tony Kaye
1998	Elizabeth	Pope Pius V	John Gielgud	Shekhar Kapur	According to the director's commentary, Kapur mentioned that the role of the Pope (played by Sir John Gielgud) was originally offered to, and accepted by, Marlon Brando. However, plans changed when Kapur noted that many on set would probably be concerned that Brando would be sharing the set with them for two days.
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Headless Horseman	Christopher Walken	Tim Burton
1999	Magnolia	Earl Partridge	Jason Robards	Paul Thomas Anderson
2001	Scary Movie 2	Father McFeely	James Woods	Keenen Ivory Wayans	Brando had to withdraw when he was hospitalized with pneumonia in April 2001.
2004	Man on Fire	Paul Rayburn	Christopher Walken	Tony Scott	Brando was the original choice to play Rayburn, less than a year before he died.
N/A	Big Bug Man (incomplete)	Mrs. Sour (voice)		Bob Bendetson Peter Shin	Brando recorded for the voice of Mrs. Sour a month before his death on July 1, 2004. He thought it would be fun to voice a girl for this project. Since Brando's death, there has been no update on the film's progress.