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Daniel Radcliffe was originally cast in the lead role for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. Screenwriter Lesley Paterson has revealed that the ‘Harry Potter’ actor was set to play the role of Paul Baumer in one of his first film projects after the wizardry franchise came to an end in 2011. Movie bosses believed that casting Daniel, 33, would secure the necessary funding to make the project based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel but it turned out not to be the case. Lesley told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “When we optioned the book 16 years ago, the landscape was so different. There’s no wa…