The classic comedy Tom Hanks refused to star in: “Heck, I’ll get someone nobody knows!”Even though Penny Marshall’s Big had earned Tom Hanks his first Academy Award nomination and won him a maiden Golden Globe, it wasn’t until the early 1990s that he finally shook off the tag of being a comedy performer, first and foremost. Hanks has pointed to 1986’s Nothing in Common as his first serious taste of dramatic acting, but it wasn’t enough to break him out of his wheelhouse. Would things have turned out differently had he accepted a leading role in a classic parody that only gets more beloved by the year? Even more remarkably, he wasn’t even the only future superstar named Tom to turn down Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs. “‘I tried to get Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and I couldn’t get them, so I got a Bill!” And I said, ‘Is that a joke, Mel?