Oddly enough, Sean Bean would work fine instead of Samuel Jackson in 1408 precisely because his wooden face would add to the mystery, add ambiguity to the warnings he was communicating to Cusack's character.
Personally, while I like Samuel Jackson, the choice to cast him there and place him in an antagonistic sort of position on the cover was confusing at best. You put Samuel Jackson in a role because the role calls for Samuel Jackson - this role did NOT call for that mofo
Like, High Fidelity was supposed to be a rather "serious" film, at least when it came down to John's arc of finding out how relationships work. But it just felt like a comedy.
1408, to me, backfired in light of how tragic his backstory was supposed to be.
Sean Bean just can't seem to be able to express emotions. John Cusack seems like a comedy actor to me, feels fake for some reason.
Will Smith - The guy maintains a facade of mr. friendly cool guy, but I don't think this is an organic part of him.
I was salvaging an UPS board, some cool components on it like high-voltage transistors, optocouplers and such. And there was this big-ass capacitor. So I soldered it out, but found it to be suspiciously light.