Cast a Remake!

[Alexander JL]

First of all, if you plan on simply saying "Remakes should not be made at all!", then please realize that this thread is simply for those of us that want to imagine familiar movies with a different cast.

That said, just throw away your ideas!

First up, Bonfire of the Vanities! Starring:

Sherman McCoy - David Hyde Pierce
Judy McCoy - Bebe Neuwirth
Maria Ruskin - Jennifer Tilly
Jed Kramer - Kevin James
Judge Leonard White - Samuel L. Jackson
Reverend Bacon - Bernie Mac
Mayor Abe Weiss - Christopher Walken
AND
Peter Fallow - Tom Hanks

[Rizor]

The Treasure of Sierra Madre

Fred Cobbs- George Clooney
Bob Curtin- Mark Wahlberg
Howard- Sean Connery
Barton MacClane- Treat Williams

Casablanca

Rick Blaine- Clooney again (he's cool enough to be Bogart)
Ilsa- hard to cast, who's as beautiful Ingrid Bergman?
Renault- Ben Kingsley
Victor- Mel Gibson (what the heck?)
Sam- Forest Whitaker
Ugarte- Steve Buscemi
Ferrari- Robbie Coltrane

~OR if they decide to go with that Affleck/J. Lo thing, I'd set it in Mexico. First up, plot. Rick has a bar in Cuba or something, Ilsa is married to some US secret agent Victor who needs to get vital info back to the US.

Rick- Ben Affleck
Ilsa- J. Lo
Victor- Don't care
Eh, screw it. Don't care either way.........

[Alexander JL]

I can't see Sean Connery as Howard... Especially if he's to do that 'gold dance'

Clooney as Rick Blaine? Just doesn't sound right to me... Mel Gibson would be too powerful as Victor, we need an undemanding presence for Victor... Just a pretty boy type.

[Citizen Kane]

Catch-22:

Yossarian: Jeff Bridges
Cathcart: John Malkovich
Danby: Edward Norton
Nately: Richard Thomas
Doc Daneeka: David Paymer
Col. Korn: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Major Major: Steve Buscemi?
Chaplain: Adrien Brody
Nurse Duckett: Olivia Williams
Milo: Barry Pepper (see 25th Hour)
Dreedle: Jack Nicholson
Peckem: Robert Duvall
Hungry Joe: Jim Caviezel
Huple: Haley Joel Osment
Aarfy: Bill Paxton
Col. Black: Daniel Day-Lewis
Col. Cargill: Danny DeVito

[FunnyBone]

Clarissa Saunders-Winona Ryder
Jefferson Smith-Tobey McGuire
Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine-Adrian Brody
Jim Taylor-Daniel Day-Lewis

[Rizor]

Originally posted by Alexander JL
I can't see Sean Connery as Howard... Especially if he's to do that 'gold dance'

Clooney as Rick Blaine? Just doesn't sound right to me... Mel Gibson would be too powerful as Victor, we need an undemanding presence for Victor... Just a pretty boy type. Sean Connery came out of nowhere really. My choice was Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story) but he passed away. Connery was the first older gent I thought of.

As for Clooney, I was thinking of someone slick and cool, but couldn't think of anyone but Chris Walken who's too old. I thought of Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and it seemed alright to me.

I agree with Gibson. I was thinking of Ed Stoppard (The Pianist), but he porved to be a decade too young. I got to thinking "strong looking male...forties..." and came up with Gibson (hence the "What the heck?" remark).

[Rizor]

Something I've posted a couple times before, but here, for the first time in expanded form........

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Atticus Finch.............................. Tom Hanks
He's perfect!

Scout, Jem, and the kids............Unknowns
We don't need no stinkin' stuck-up Hollywood brats!

Aunt Alexandria..........................Julianne Moore
A character from the book that desparately need to be in a remake! I made her younger though. In the books, she's a grandmother, but she always seemed too distant being that old.

Miss Maudie................................Patricia Clarkson
Good actress that could bring some warmth to the role.

Bob Ewell.....................................William Sadler
He played a good Southern hick in The Green Mile! 2nd choice: Kurtwood Smith

Mayella Ewell..............................Amy Adams
Made a good impression in Catch Me if You Can as a sobbing misunderstood girl. 2nd choice: Katie Holmes

Tom Robinson.............................Ja Rule
Not too solid on that one. ;) He's a nice-natured looking guy in his mid-tweties, as IIRC, Tom is. Don't know if he can act, but at least he looks the part.

Mrs. Dubose................................Phyllis Diller
A character from the books that was barely in the movie. Not too solid on this choice either cince I've never seen her act. I only chose her because of her voice from A Bug's Life and the fact that she was a comedian. but she has a condescending voice that could play well into it. Any thoughts for the old, dying, cranky morphine addict.

Calpurnia..................................Kimberl y Scott
Again, not too sure on this either. I'm casting her from seeing her in the Abyss. 2nd choice: Viola Davis.

Heck Tate.................................Gary Sinise
Yep, he'd make a good sheriff.

Mr. Gilmer...............................Vincent D'Onofrio
To play the rather wicked (at least in the courtroom) prosecutor. Maybe Tony Shalhoub (after seeing him in The Man Who Wasn't There).

Judge Taylor............................M. Emmett Walsh
As the old and rather slobbish Judge. But if they want to play it in another way from the book, Robert Duvall would make a good Judge. :D

Mr. Dolphus Raymond.............Jeffrey DeMunn
That's just who I see in the role. 2nd choice: Dan Hedaya, maybe

And others.......don't know who to play Boo.

[evilsquishy]

It would have been interesting to see who you cast as Boo Radley.

[Blueman]

Ghostbusters!

sicne i cant remmebr the charcters name ill just sya the actors name

Mark Wahlberg-the charcter of bill murray
John C. Reiley-the charcter of Dan Akryod
Orlando Jones-the charcter of Ernie Hudson
Edward Norton-the charcter of the guy with the big glasses
?-the charcter of Rick Moranis

and the main babe i think should be Jennifer Garner(sorry just Saw Daredevil on dvd and shes smokin hot)

[Mat]

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dr. Strangelove- Martin Short
Gen. Buck Turgidson- Robert DeNiro (in a very over the top performance)
Gen. Jack Ripper- Michael Gross (Burt from the Tremors series)
Mandrake- Tony Curran (Invisible man from LXG)
Presiden Merikin Muffley- Eugene Levy
Major TJ King Kong- Randy Quad

[Alexander JL]

Psycho

Norman Bates - Orlando Bloom
Marion Crane - Julia Roberts
Lila Crane - Angelina Jolie
Sam Loomis - Jeremy Northam
Detective Arbogast - Joe Montagna (sp?)

[ga.peach]

Whose Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe

Liz Taylor -- Nicole Kidman
Richard Burton --- Russell Crowe

[Blueman]

Originally posted by Alexander JL
Psycho

Norman Bates - Orlando Bloom
(sp?)


youre kidding right ? that has to be the worst idea ever u ****ing dumbass

wow i dont think i have ever seeen a worst descion

[DangerMouse]

The Godfather

Michael Corleone-Emi

BOOM!!!!!

(Lightning strikes DangerMouse's computer destroying DM's keyboard) :applaud:

[Alexander JL]

Originally posted by Blueman
youre kidding right ? that has to be the worst idea ever u ****ing dumbass

wow i dont think i have ever seeen a worst descion

What the hell is your problem?

And why don't you defend your argument? Its a bad idea? Why? Even a moron like you must be able to think...

[Blueman]

Orlando Bloom?? you gotta get youre heaD out of youre ass and realize that this is the same guy whos in movies where he doesnt ever even really raise his voice that much

and plus there is nothing for me to really explain if its a incredibly bad iea( and i mean the worst casting idea i have ever heard)

[Mat]

Originally posted by Blueman
Orlando Bloom?? you gotta get youre heaD out of youre ass and realize that this is the same guy whos in movies where he doesnt ever even really raise his voice that much

and plus there is nothing for me to really explain if its a incredibly bad iea( and i mean the worst casting idea i have ever heard)

You shouldn't be talking. You picked Marky Mark to be in a remake of Ghostbusters. :rolleyes:

[Rizor]

Henry Thomas might be able to pull off Norman Bates. Hell, he played the young Bates in one of the sequels! He looks just like Perkins.

[Alexander JL]

Originally posted by Blueman
Orlando Bloom?? you gotta get youre heaD out of youre ass and realize that this is the same guy whos in movies where he doesnt ever even really raise his voice that much

and plus there is nothing for me to really explain if its a incredibly bad iea( and i mean the worst casting idea i have ever heard)

Well you obviously don't know much about the movie. All you know obviously comes from what you've heard- that being that Norman is the title character.

Well pull your own head out of your own ass, go do some research, WATCH THE DAMN MOVIE. When Hitchcock cast Perkins as Norman, the reason was because Perkins was one of the era's pretty boys, a guy who could play any character and still come off unthreatening, the most unlikely person in the movie to be a bad guy.

If you haven't figured it out already, the revelation that Norman is the psycho is the movie's TWIST. Hitchcock wanted audiences to root for Norman Bates up until the final revelation.

Is Bloom considered today's pretty boy whose characters can do no wrong? Do any of Bloom's characters come off threatening? Use that rotting gray mass in your skull before you respond in such a manner next time, moron.

[Blueman]

hey i dont have to listen to youre bull****


sorry but i have a life i dont go reserch on directors and find out why they pick certain acotres for the charcter i acutually try and go outside for a change maybe u should try thAT FOR A CHANGE

[bludemun]

Spider-man with the cast of That 70's Show

Spider-man: Topher Grace (Eric)
Mary Jane: Laura Prepon (Donna)
Green Goblin: Kurtwood Smith (Red Forman)

[sniktawt]

Originally posted by Blueman
hey i dont have to listen to youre bull****


sorry but i have a life i dont go reserch on directors and find out why they pick certain acotres for the charcter i acutually try and go outside for a change maybe u should try thAT FOR A CHANGE

What is this word ?????-acotres

[Freddy Englund]

I don't know the word either.

[Blueman]

**** y ou manits calleda typo and its the damn summer

so i dont know why on youre summer vacation youre worrying about people's spelling when its a simple typo sorry i actully make mistakes like a normal human

so sorry if i offended u since youre so god damn perfect u ****ing geek

[Citizen Kane]

Orlando Bloom is a poor choice for Bates. You have all this stuff about Hitchcock casting Perkins for his Hollywood star/pretty boy qualities, but you forget that this is a remake. That idea is now useless. What we want in Bates is innocence, which is what made the character so startling when he was originally introduced to us. And besides, I don't think Bloom has the acting chops to pull it off just yet.

I say a good Norman Bates would be Jeremy Davies. He has the mousy quality, and resembles Anthony Perkins.

[JBond]

Originally posted by Blueman
youre kidding right ? that has to be the worst idea ever u ****ing dumbass

Why don't you just calm down, huh? There is no need to attack people like that.

[bbf2]

I think if they made a remake of Psycho, Norman should by played by Vince Vaughn.

Oh wait......

[sniktawt]

Do we really honestly need another Psycho remake ?

[Blueman]

Originally posted by Citizen Kane
Orlando Bloom is a poor choice for Bates. You have all this stuff about Hitchcock casting Perkins for his Hollywood star/pretty boy qualities, but you forget that this is a remake. That idea is now useless. What we want in Bates is innocence, which is what made the character so startling when he was originally introduced to us. And besides, I don't think Bloom has the acting chops to pull it off just yet.

I say a good Norman Bates would be Jeremy Davies. He has the mousy quality, and resembles Anthony Perkins.

thank you!:applaud: :applaud:

at least someone agrres with me that bloom for bates is a poor casting choice

[Parrish]

Batman Returns

Batman - Brad Pitt
Catwomen - Kirsten Dunst
Penguin - Robert De Niro (because hes become fat)

[Citizen Kane]

Brad Pitt? :lol:

Not dark and brooding enough.

[Boods]

ocean's eleven

-these first six i wouldnt change
danny ocean - george clooney
dusty ryan - brad pitt
tess ocean - julia roberts
owelinus caldwell - matt damon
roscoe means - don cheadle
harry benedict - andy garcia

-these seven i would change
virgil malloy - owen wilson
turk malloy - luke wilson
saul bloom - sean connery
ruben tishckoff - anthony hopkins
computer dude (forgot his name) - mike meyers
chinese dude (forgot his name) - jackie chan
bernie mac dude - chris tucker

[Citizen Kane]

Hmm....I think Jackie Chan is too high-profile to appear in the movie, it would be distracting.

That's what was good about the cast of the movie. It was made up primarily of character actors who could inhabit their roles without distracting from the main focus of the film.

[downflow311]

Daredevil needs to be remade because the casting was wrong.

Matt Murdock- anyone but Ben Affleck

the rest of the cast was fine. wasnt Kingpin a fat white guy in the comic?

[Citizen Kane]

I think so, I remember reading a DareDevil/Spiderman crossover ages ago and Kingpin was this fat white guy.