According to Sir John Hurt in the DVD documentary, he was considered at the beginning of casting to play Kane, but had already committed to Zulu Dawn (1979) that was set to take place in South Africa, so Jon Finch got the role instead. However, two separate incidents occurred which got Hurt the role. First was the fact that he was banned from South Africa because the country mistook him for John Heard, who strongly opposed apartheid (Hurt points out that he was opposed to it too, but was lucky enough not to get blacklisted) so he was unable to do the other movie. Second, Finch became seriously ill from diabetes on his first day of shooting and had to pull out. In a desperate attempt to prevent further delays to filming, Sir Ridley Scott immediately drove over to Hurt's house in England to get him on board. Scott pitched him the script over a weekend, and Hurt arrived on the set Monday morning with little to no sleep to begin filming.
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