re: Most obvious casting decisions ever.

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Very few people seem to get OP’s premise. It’s not who was perfect in a role after you saw the movie. It is: what actor was the obvious choice to play an established character from a book or other source in a new movie involving that character

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Yeah, people are missing the OP. He's basically asking who was typecast, and it worked.

Pierce Brosnan was the people's choice to be Bond, before Dalton ever took that role. When he finally did it, he was what we expected.

Let's say they make a movie about Teddy Roosevelt, or Davy Crockett, or some other known character (real or fictional). Who would you cast, maybe to the point that you'd only make it if that actor would agree to it?