Any actor in Minecraft could've been replaced and it would have still been as popular as it was. Minecraft is enormous and sentimental to anyone that's played it in the last 20 years and that's a lot of people new and old, it's it's own thing

You hear of people missing out on roles, like will smith and neo and you think wow, I'm glad he didn't get that but Gibson in gladiator would've been a good watch. Crowe did an absolutely phenomenal job and the right man got the part regardless.