>>213540928Yeah, and Excalibur and The Mission, but he was hardly some tentpole leading man. Obviously Neeson would explode past Campbell soon after, but I'd think that Evil Dead 1 and 2 had enough of a cult following when Darkman came out that Liam Neeson couldn't have been unarguably the bigger box office draw.
Still, I don't think it mattered much. Darkman wasn't sold on the star power so much as the concept.