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WARNER BROS. PRESENTS

a HOWARD HAWKS film

"48 HRS" (1958)

WRITTEN by JULES FURTHMAN and LEIGH BRACKETT

MUSIC by DIMITRI TIOMKIN

 

starring

 

JOHN WAYNE as DET. SGT. JACK CATES

 

 

HARRY BELAFONTE as REGGIE HAMMOND

 

 

LEE MARVIN as ALBERT GANZ

 

 

DENNIS HOPPER as LUTHER

 

 

CHARLES BRONSON as BILLY BEAR

 

 

ANGIE DICKINSON as ELAINE MARSHALL

 

"And The Platters as The Bus-Boys!"

- Darren Aronofsky's Suspiria

- Natalie Portman as Suzy Bannion

- Kristina Anapau as Sara

- Jared Leto as Daniel

- Ellen Burstyn as Madame Blanc

- Barbara Hershey as Miss Tanner

- Janet Montgomery as Pat Hingle

- Vincent Cassel as Dr.Frank Mandel

- Mila Kunis as Olga

- Gary Busey as Pavlo

- Darren Aronofksy's Profondo rosso

The new script (writtern by Joel and Ethan Coen) has two innovations: carlo becomes a girl (marc's former girlfriend) and the killers are the mother (first and second murder) and the daughter too (the puppet murder)

- Hugh Jackman as Marcus Daily

- Jennifer Connelly as Gianna Brezzi

- Diane Kruger as Helga Ulmann

- Vincent Cassel or Liam Neeson as Professor Giordani

- Wynona Ryder as Amanda Righetti

- Mila Kunis as Carla

- Barbara Hershey as Marta

- Carla Bruni as the Puppet

- Puppet alternative 1:

Diane Lane nude

Coming to ABC fall of 2013

The Greatest American Hero

Nathan Fillion - Ralph Hinkley

Morena Boccarin - Pam Davidson

Bruce Campbell  - Bill Maxwell

Buck Rodgers

Summer 2013

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - Captain Buck Rodgers

Kat Dennings - Col Wilma Deering

Haley Atwell - Princess Ardala

Christopher Walken - Dr Elias Huer

Seth Mcfarlane - The Voice of Twinkee

I love that recasting of Highlander especially Michael Fassbender as Connor MacLeod and Ray Stevenson as The Kurgan. For Ramirez though, Neeson (while an OUTSTANDING CHOICE) is too similar to Connery (you can't have another British Islander in that role again) and he has played the mentor role too often.

I'd go for either Mr. Spaniard himself---Antonio Banderas--as Ramirez.

A darkhorse for the role would be Oded Fehr.

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I love that recasting of Highlander especially Michael Fassbender as Connor MacLeod and Ray Stevenson as The Kurgan. For Ramirez though, Neeson (while an OUTSTANDING CHOICE) is too similar to Connery (you can't have another British Islander in that role again) and he has played the mentor role too often.

 

I'd go for either Mr. Spaniard himself---Antonio Banderas--as Ramirez.

 

 

A darkhorse for the role would be Oded Fehr.

Why not a female Ramirez?

Or

And while we're at it, Cassandra McCleod

Or

Marathon Man (2013)

Dir. Ben Affleck

Casey Affleck - Babe

Ben Affleck - Doc

Frank Langella - Szell

Titus Welliver - Janeway

Diane Kruger - Elsa

I....would see the absolute hell out of that.

Another idea for Schell though:

The great Yuletide departure of one of our greatest directors into a controversial comedy hit:

Bad Santa (1979)

Written by Walon Green & Sam Peckinpah

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Warren Oates as Willie Stokes

Herve Villechaize as Marcus

Cybill Shepherd as Sue

Mie Hama as Lois

Yaphet Kotto as Gin

with Ernest Borgnine as Bob Chipeska

and introducing Sean Astin (plus a few extra pounds) as Thurman "The Kid" Merman

And from the archives from the '09 thread:

The lost Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader/Robert De Niro collaboration:

OBSERVE AND REPORT (1979)

Robert De Niro as Ronnie Barnhardt
Goldie Hawn as Brandi
Mick Jagger as Dennis
Warren Oates as Detective Harrison
Harvey Keitel as Mark
Mark Hamill as Charles
Joe Strummer and Mick Jones as the Yates (Yuen) Brothers
Shelley Winters as Ronnie's Mom
Jamie Lee Curtis as Nell
Divine (without makeup) as The Pervert

Albert Brooks as Toast-a-Bun Manager

Not gonna do pictures here, feeling a bit lazy. But I will revisit one and do a new one for one of our great seasonal screenwriters:

Lethal Weapon (2013)

Screenplay by Hossein Amini, based on the 1987 screenplay by Shane Black

Directed by Sam Mendes

Jeremy Renner as Det. Sgt. Martin Riggs

Don Cheadle as Det. Sgt. Roger Murtaugh

Michael C. Hall as Mr. Joshua

Chris Cooper as General Peter McAllister

Titus Welliver as Michael Hunsaker

Angela Bassett as Trish Murtaugh

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The Long Kiss Goodnight (2013)

Directed by Gareth Evans

Charlize Theron as Samantha Caine/Charly Baltimore

Jamie Foxx as Mitch Henessey

Joel McHale as Timothy

Bill Hader as Hal

John Slattery as Leland Perkins

Derek Mears as One-Eyed Jack

Bailee Madison as Caitlin Caine

Frank Grillo as Luke/Daedalus

and Ian McShane as Dr. Nathan Waldman

Mortal Kombat

Brian Tee as Liu Kang

Matt Mullins as Johnny Cage

Amber Valletta as Sonya Blade

Phil Anselmo as Kano

Tadanobu Asano as Shang Tsung

David Carradine as Lord Rayden

I know it's not very good but I wanted to post it anyway

Men in Black (1975)

Charles Bronson as Agent K

Richard Pryor as Agent J

Diane Keaton as Dr. Laurel Weaver

Karl Malden as Chief Z

and introducing Peter Mayhew as Edgar the Bug

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I know it's not very good but I wanted to post it anyway

 

 

 Not good? Are you kidding? I would have watched the hell out of that. I submit Blake Edwards as director. I  wish I had that for a childhood memory instead of Return of the Pink Panther.

HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Steve Carrel as Arthur Dent

Chris Rock as Ford Prefect

Warwick David/Alan Rickman as Marvin (because, why try to improve on perfection?)

Ian McKellan as the voice of the Book

Gary Oldman as Zaphod Beeblebrox

Karen Gillan as Trillian

Christopher Lee as Sladibardfast

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HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

 

Steve Carrel as Arthur Dent

 

Chris Rock as Ford Prefect

 

Warwick David/Alan Rickman as Marvin (because, why try to improve on perfection?)

 

Ian McKellan as the voice of the Book

 

Gary Oldman as Zaphod Beeblebrox

 

Karen Gillan as Trillian

 

Christopher Lee as Sladibardfast

Sorry, but Dent HAS to be English.

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Sorry, but Dent HAS to be English.

HAS to be. It's required, even written down, somewhere.

Alright, gentlemen... a challenge.

Recast Anchorman. As a drama.

Paths of Glory

Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Michael Fassbender as Col. Dax

Christophe Waltz as General George Broulard

Bruce Willis as general Paul Mireau

 Vincent Cassel as  Cap. Paris

Til Schweiger as Pvt.Pierre Arnaud

Guillaume Canet as Maj. Saint-Auban

Diane Kruger as German Singer / Wife of Paris (deleted scene)

Challenge accepted.

ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004)

Sexual harassment, interoffice politics, and media ethics during the tumultuous 1970s.

George Clooney as charismatic yet arrogant anchor Ron Burgundy

Diane Lane as trailblazing female journalist Veronica Corningstone 

Robert Downey Jr. as intrepid reporter-in-the-field Brian Fantana

Woody Harrelson as alcoholic sportscaster Champ Kind 

Ed Harris as newsroom boss and concerned father Ed Harken

with

Brad Pitt as antagonistic rival anchor Wes Mantooth

and in the performance of lifetime,

Sean Penn as Brick Tamland, a mentally challenged weatherman dealing with the indignities of modern life.

Written and directed by George Clooney.

Following the same thought as the Anchorman recast.

Caddyshack (1984)

Directed by Alan Parker

Ty Webb-Robert Redford

Al Czervik-Charles Durning

Judge Smails-Gene Hackman

Danny Noonan-Tom Cruise

Carl Spackler-John Malkovich

David Cronenberg's Groundhog Day (1993)

Daniel Day-Lewis as Phillip Connors

Julianne Moore as Rita

Kevin Spacey as Larry

and Brad Dourif as Mr. Ryerson

David Cronenberg delights us with this excellent psychological drama where the intense Daniel Day-Lewis stars as a reporter called Phillip who is sent alongside a news producer (Julianne Moore) and a cameraman (Kevin Spacey) to the small town of Punxsutawney to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities on February 2. After a blizzard shuts down the roads Phil and his team are forced to stay in town overnight. The following day, he realizes his reliving February 2 and after depression and numerous suicide attemps, he begins to fall into madness. Why is he condemned to relive that day over and over? Why is he the only one aware of the time loop? Who is the mysterious Mr. Ryerson (Brad Dourif) who claims to know Phillip? What happens in Punxsutawney? Is this really happening or is it all in his mind?

In another universe...the first controversial event of the new decade, the 2000 hit...

DJANGO

UNCHAINED

Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Samuel L. Jackson as Django

Christopher Walken as Dr. King Schultz

Brad Pitt as Calvin Candie

Halle Berry as Broomhilda von Shaft

Danny Glover as Stephen

Eric Roberts as Billy Crash

Robert Forster as Leonide Moguy

Powers Boothe as Mr. Stonesipher

Nia Long as Cora

Nicole Ari Parker as Sheba

Rosanna Arquette as Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly

Michael Madsen as Butch Pooch

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as D’Artangnan

Bokeem Woodbine as Rodney

Michael Jai White as Big Fred

Regina Hall as Betina

David Carradine as Ace Speck

Keith Carradine as Dicky Speck

Charles Napier as Sheriff Bill Sharp

Michael Parks as US Marshal Gill McGraw

Peter Fonda as Son of a Gunfighter

Bridget Fonda as Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter

Robert C. Ginty as Sheriff Gus

Tom Atkins as Big John Brittle

Sven-Ole Thorsen as Ellis Brittle

Michael Bowen as Lil' Raj Brittle

Eli Wallach as Old Man Carrucan

Franco Nero as Bar Patron

Linda Kaye, Kirk Baltz, Greg Nicotero, Eddie Bunker, Robert Rodriguez, and Duane Whitaker as the Trackers

Peter Greene as Tracker Lex

John Saxon, Vernon Wells and Quentin Tarantino as the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company

with Adam Sandler as Bag Head #2

and Burt Reynolds as Big Daddy

 The Anchorman as drama looks like it could actually work; maybe even be an Oscar favorite. I would lose Champ as semi-retarded. Cast him as someone who was a failed high school jock and being a sports reporter is how he tries to make up for an unhappy childhood that he can't get over.

Not to take away from MicGuar, but here's my dramtic Anchorman...

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON'S

ANCHORMAN

Ron Burgundy - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Veronica Corningstone - Gwyneth Paltrow

Brian Fantana - Mark Ruffalo

Brick Tamland - Michael Shannon

Champ Kind - Josh Brolin

Ed Harken - Philip Baker Hall

Garth Holladay - Kevin J. O'Connor

Tino - Alfred Molina

Wes Mantooth - Tom Cruise

Frank Vitchard - Thomas Jane

Public News Anchor - William H. Macy

Arturo Mendez - Luis Guzman

The MC - Paul F. Tompkins

The Motorcyclist - Joaquin Phoenix

and the Oscar nominated Uggie as Baxter 

Anchorman (2004) Directed by David Fincher 

From the fiery utter failure and wreck of Will Farrell's and Adam McKay's comedy comes David Fincher who loves the idea of showing the changes in network news but wants to take a serious dark look at the struggles of change against male chauvinism and sexism in the televised news and and a group of men fighting against it from happening.

Ron Burgundy - Brad Pitt

Veronica Corningstone - Kate Winslet

Brian Fantana - Robert Downey Jr.

Brick Tamland - Paul Giamatti

Champ Kind - John C. Reilly

Ed Harken - Harvey Keitel

Garth Holladay - Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Tino - Javier Bardem

Wes Mantooth - Leonardo DiCaprio

Frank Vitchard - Jared Leto

Public News Anchor - Richard Jenkins

Arturo Mendez - Gael Garcia Bernal

The Motorcyclist - Edward Norton

Harrison Ford always came to mind as Brick.

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!"

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 The Anchorman as drama looks like it could actually work; maybe even be an Oscar favorite. I would lose Champ as semi-retarded. Cast him as someone who was a failed high school jock and being a sports reporter is how he tries to make up for an unhappy childhood that he can't get over.

Oh yeah, it'd be total Oscar Bait, as much as I hate that term.

Champ (sports reporter) not the retarded one anyways, that's Brick. Champ would be a washed-up athlete with a drinking problem and repressed homosexuality -- just like in the original, but cast in a totally different light, obviously.

Animal House, the drama (1994)

Dir. Norman Jewison

Chris O'Donnell - Larry 'Pinto' Kroger

Brendan Fraser as Eric 'Otter' Statton

Matt Damon as Greg Marmalard

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Kent 'Flounder' Dorfman

Giovanni Ribisi as Donald 'Boone' Schoenstein

Moira Kelly as Katy

Michael Rapaport as Daniel Simpson Day

Jeremy Sisto as Doug Neidermeyer

William H Macy as Dean Wormer

and Jack Black as John 'Bluto' Blutarsky

- Nighthawks (not a remake, but alternative version of the original)

Directed by Bruce Malmuth

Al Pacino as Deke Da Silva

- Richard Roundtree as Matthew Fox

- David Gilmour as Reinhard Heymar, "Wulfgar" (hilarious? maybe, but it's like me)

- Maren Jensen as Shakka Holland

- Michael Caine as Peter Hartman

- David Hemmings as Kenna

- Various as Pam

Hilary Thompson herself, Annette McCarhy or Joanna Cameron

- Anna Marcello as alternative Shakka Holland

- Annette McCarthy as Hostage / Mother with the baby

I'll do drama Anchorman too...

ANCHORMAN

A FILM BY BEN AFFLECK

Ben Affleck is Ron Burgundy

Jennifer Connelly is Veronica Corningstone

Sam Rockwell is Brian Fantana

Brian Cranston is Champ Kind

Philip Seymour Hoffman is Brick Tamland

Jon Voight is Ed Harken

Giovanni Ribisi is Garth Holladay

Casey Affleck is Frank Vitchard

and Matt Damon is Wes Mantooth

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (2012)

Pumpkin: Micheal Fassbinder

Honey Bunny: Catherine Tate

Vincent Vega: Johnny Depp

Jules Winfield: Jamie Foxx

Brett: Patton Oswald

Marvin: Donald Glover

Butch Coolidge: Russell Crowe

Marsellus Wallace: Samuel L. Jackson

Lance: Joseph Gordon Levitt

Jody: Amber Tamblyn

Mia Wallace: Diane Kruger

Captain Koons: Nic Cage

Esmerelda Villalobos: Melanie Laurent

Fabienne: Anne-Sophie Franck

Maynard: M.C. Gainey

Zed: Walton Goggins

Jimmy: B.J. Novak

Winston Wolf: Christoph Waltz

A thrilling tale of men consumed by vengeance and greed. They are able to achieve the American Dream, but in doing so they lose their souls.

Paul Thomas Anderson's

DIRTY WORK

Mitch Webber: Jeremy Renner

Sam Mckenna: John C. Reilly

'Pops' Mckenna: Phillip Baker Hall

Kathy: Amy Adams

Travis Cole:  Alfred Molina

Mr. Hamilton: Ricky Jay

Dr. Farthing: William H. Macy

Anton Phillips: Woody Harrelson

with Phillip Seymore Hoffman as Jimmy:

and Adam Sandler as Satan

A recast revisited:

PULP FICTION

(2013)

Featuring in alphabetical order:

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Marcellus Wallace

Emily Blunt as Mia Wallace

Josh Brolin as Butch Coolidge

Zooey Deschanel as Honney Bunny

Robert Downey Jr. as Vincent Vega

James Franco as Lance

Tom Hiddleston as Pumpkin

Ian McShane as The Wolf

Paul Rudd as Jimmie Dimmick

Kevin Spacey as Captain Koons

Michael K. Williams as Jules Winnfield

Having just seen Lockout...

John Carpenter's Escape from MS1 (1985)

Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken

Michelle Pfeiffer as Emilie

Charles Bronson as Scott Langral

Ossie Davis as Harry Shaw

Rutger Hauer as Alex

with Donald Pleasence as the President of the United States

and introducing Gary Oldman as Hydell

Since we're doing Tarantino here's the inevitable Spaghetti Western...  

DJANGO UNCHAINED (1975)

Django - Fred Williamson

Dr. King Shultz - Max Von Sydow

Calvin Candide - Warren Beatty

Broomhilda - Vonetta McGee

Stephen - Moses Gunn

Billy Crash - Warren Oates

Butch Pooch - Ben Johnson

Leonide Moguy - Albert Dekker

Sheba - Jeannie Bell

Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly - Lara Parker

Big Daddy - Jack Palance

Big John Brittle - Jack Elam

Ellis Brittle - R.G. Armstrong

 

Lil' Raj Brittle - L.Q. Jones

Bag Head # 2 - John Belushi

Son of a Gunfighter - Henry Fonda

Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter - Jane Fonda

Old Man Carrucan - John Carradine 

The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employees - Mario Brega, Henry Silva and Hugh Keays-Byrne

David Fincher's

WKRP IN CINCINATTI

(2012)

Andy Travis -- Brad Pitt

Les Nessman - Richard Jenkins

Herb Tarlek -- John C. Reilly

Jennifer Marlowe -- Eva Green

Baily Quarters -- Rebecca Hall

Dr. Johnny Fever -- Robert Downey Jr.

Venus Flytrap  -- Anthony Mackie

Mr Carlson -- James Gandolfini

The gender reversed

Avengers

directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Captain America - Alison Brie

Iron Woman - Angelina Jolie

The Hulk - Amy Acker

Thor - Zoe Bell

The Widow Maker - James Franco

Hawkeye - Emma Stone

Agent Coulson - Famke Jannsen

Selvig - Michelle Pfeiffer

Fury - Gina Torres

Loki - Christina Hendricks

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Since we're doing Tarantino here's the inevitable Spaghetti Western...  

 

DJANGO UNCHAINED (1975)

 

 

Love it, but: You couldn't squeeze Van Cleef in there anywhere? 

True Romance (1969)

Dir. Stanley Kubrick

Clarence - Martin Sheen

Alabama - Sue Lyon

Dick Ritchie - Russ Tamblyn

Clarence's Dad - Sterling Hayden

Vincenzo Coccoti - John Cazale

Virgil - Oliver Reed

Drexl Spivey - John Cassavetes

Floyd - Warren Beatty

Elvis - Elvis Presley

Lee Donowitz - Peter Ustinov

Elliot Blitzer - Anthony Perkins

Detective Cody - Warren Oates

Detective Dimes - Rod Steiger

An unnecessarily delayed followup to one of my earlier posts.

Two years after the commercial and critical success of the action-thriller The Bourne Identity, director John Frankenheimer reunites the cast of his previous film for the highly-anticipated sequel, as well as bringing along some young up-and-coming European actors, and an old collaborator cast against type in a key role. Production moves to Berlin, and the new film tackles the East-West divide, as well as US-Soviet relations. The early death of actor Laurence Harvey (cast as one of the lead villains) halts production briefly before another actor in cast. Ultimately, the film goes on to be another success, but the use in many scenes of handheld cameras causes some concern, prompting the invention of the Steadicam in 1976.

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (1974)

Warren Beatty as amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne

Dominique Sanda as Bourne's lover Marie Kreutz

Lee J. Cobb as intelligence director Ward Abbott 

Harrison Ford as Company man Danny Zorn 

Melinda Dillon as CIA technician Nicky Parsons

Rutger Hauer as Berlin operative Jarda

Steven Berkoff as KGB agent Kirill

and

Angela Lansbury as CIA official Pamela Landy *

*Probably the only time a still from a Disney musical will be used to promote a conspiracy thriller, but whatever.

- The Shining

Directed by William Friedkin

- Michael Shannon as Jack Torrance

- Carey Lowell as Wendy Torrance

- Thomas Wooler as Danny Torrance

- Samuel L.Jackson as Dick Halloran

- Juno Temple as twin sisters

- Carla Bruni as the lady in the bathtub

Annette Mc Carhy as Young Woman in the bathtub

- Blood Simple

Directed by William Friedkin

Matthew McConaughey as Loren Visser

Gina Gershon as Abby

- Thomas Haden Church as Marty

William Petersen as Ray

Carey Lowell as Debra

- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Meurice

Tropic Thunder (Quentin Tarantino Version)

John Travolta as Tugg Speedman

Michael Madsen as Jeff Portnoy

Bruce Willis as Kirk Lazarus

Jamie Foxx as Alpa Chino

Tim Roth as Kevin Sandusky

Christopher Walken as John "Four Leaf" Tayback

Michael Fassbender as Damien Cockburn

Mike Myers as Cody Underwood

Eli Roth as Rob Slolom

With

Brad Pitt as Rick "Pecker" Peck

And

Leonardo DiCaprio as Les Grossman

This might be not the best Quentin Tarantino's casting but if you agree or disagree with this choice, give me suggestion on who should play?

Tropic Thunder (Quentin Tarantino Version) Improved

John Travolta as Tugg Speedman

Michael Madsen as Jeff Portnoy

Bruce Willis as Kirk Lazarus

Jamie Foxx as Alpa Chino

Tim Roth as Kevin Sandusky

Christopher Walken as John "Four Leaf" Tayback

Michael Fassbender as Damien Cockburn

Mike Myers as Cody Underwood

Eli Roth as Rob Slolom

With

Brad Pitt as Rick "Pecker" Peck

And

Harvey Keitel as Les Grossman