Cast
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Done in an even bigger way in the later seasons with Jenny writing a book (which gets made into a movie that she gets to cast and direct) featuring thinly-veiled copies of the entire main cast, with her as the Mary Sue.
Source: Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" -
The engineering team that are developing a new rover are direct, DIRECT physical dopplegangers of the Ghostbusters cast.
Source: Manga / Uchuu Kyoudai -
In version one, Charlton Heston was cast in the film but on learning that Welles was also cast, he insisted that he direct the film.
Source: Film / Touch of Evil
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