Danny Tanner was almost a very different person.
In fact, the original star of Full House was basically nothing like Bob Saget, nor his creative take on the beloved sitcom character. And that seems to be part of the problem. Still, the fact that Bob Saget replaced the original Danny Tanner, John Posey, at the 11th hour is nothing but a crazy Hollywood story.
The truth of John Posey's firing and Bob Saget replacing him even after the pilot of Full House was shot with Posey is an example of how dastardly, unfair, and downright cut-throat the entertainment industry can be.
Even though and has publically made fun of it on numerous occasions, there's no doubt that he's well-aware of how important the show was to his career. Not to mention the fact that he built life-long friendships with many of his castmates, .
The same can't be said for John Posey.
Like Bob Saget, John Posey was really just at the beginning of his television career when the opportunity to star on Full House came around.
"I was part of a pretty successful comedy group — Comedia — in Atlanta, and somebody from ABC was in town," . "They saw [our] show, pulled me aside and said, 'Hey, we'd like to see you get in front of our comedy development people' ... I went ahead and went [to Los Angeles]. And then of course the pilot they gave me right away was Full House. And from what I was told, they were looking all over the country for people and couldn't find a guy, although I later found out that Bob Saget and Paul Reiser were the two guys they were after first, and they were both unavailable.
Yet, ABC was all in on Posey. At least, at first. They had him sign a contract and shoot a pilot that they put a decent amount of effort and money into. This is because Full House was designed to be a big hit on the network. So much so that the network greenlit the show as soon as the pilot (the one with Posey) crossed their desk.
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