Collateral (1987)

Directed by William Friedkin

 

Vincent-William Petersen

 

 

 

Max Durocher-Denzel Washington

 

 

 

 

Ray Fanning-Ray Liotta

 

 

 

 

Frank Pedrosa-Richard Venture

 

 

 

 

Felix Reyes-Torrena-Raul Julia

 

 

 

Airport Man-Steven Seagal

 

 

 

Blanking on the Jada Pinkett role, any thoughts?

Just to be clear, I do not under any circumstances support rebooting the X-Files. I want X-Files III: The Adventure Continues with David Duchovney and Gillian Anderson getting top billing.

So this is purely just idle musing, but how about...

Joseph Gordon Levitt for Fox Mulder

and..

Anne Hathaway as Dana Catherine Scully?

I think JGL could really sell Mulder's sense of humor and obsessive quest for THE TRUTH.

I hesitate to cast anyone else, since Chris Carter was always of the belief the show's universe was more believable when peopled by relative unknowns.

Pam Grier.

Micheal Fessbender is Ian Fleming's James Bond 007

in

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 

Haley Atwell - Tracy

Tom Hiddleston - Blofeld

Giancarlo Giannini - Draco

Katie Sackhoff - Irma Bunt

David Tennant - Sir Hilary Bay

 

 

The cast will have the same Q, M, and Moneypenny as the other two.

Carl Laemmle, Jr. presents

a Todd Browning film

 

"THE BAT-MAN" (1935)

 

starring

 

Bela Lugosi as "THE BAT-MAN"

 

 

Dwight Frye as "THE JOKER"

 

 

Edward Van Sloan as "COMMISSIONER JAMES GORDON"

 

 

Gloria Holden as "CATWOMAN"

 

 

Colin Clive as "TWO-FACE"

 

 

Claude Raines as "THE RIDDLER"

 

 

Charles Laughton as "THE PENGUIN"

 

 

Cedric Hardwicke as "MISTER FREEZE"

 

 

John Carradine as "THE SCARECROW"

 

 

Creighton Chaney as "THE KILLER CROCODILE"

 

 

Peter Lorre as "DOCTOR HUGO STRANGE"

 

 

with Myrna Loy as "TAILA"

 

 

and Boris Karloff as "RA'S AL GHUL"

 

It seems like Conrad Veidt should play the Joker, since that's who he was based on.

Phantom of the Paradise

2013

written and directed by Edgar Wright

 

Ranin Wilson - Winslow/The Phantom

 

Neil Patrick Harris - Swan

 

Anne Hathaway - Phoenix

 

Johnny Depp - Beef

 

Nick Frost - Phibin

MATTHEW VAUGHN'S

 

(2013)

 

 

CHRIS HEMSWORTH as JOHN MCCLANE

 

"Well, now that you mention it, I have experienced a, you know, like a burning sensation between my toes. I thought it was just some athlete's foot or something."

 

 

IDRIS ELBA as ZEUS CARVER

 

"Yeah, well, you can stick your well-laid plan up your well-laid ass."

 

 

CHRISTOPHER WALTZ as SIMON GRUBER

 

"There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

 

 

CHIWETEL EJIOFOR as JOE LAMBERT

 

"Who the hell would wanna blow up a department store?"

 

 

BRUCE GREENWOOD as INSPECTOR WALTER COBB

 

"I have no idea, he just said it had to be you."

 

 

ROBERT CARLYLE as MATHIAS TARGO

 

"I told you not to toy with him!"

 

 

TILDA SWINTON as KATYA

 

"........"

I did three seasons of Justified re-cast a few pages back as standalone films (Peckinpah on the first 2, Walter Hill on the 3rd.) With the fourth season winding down, I wanted to cast that. Possible that I may need to add to it, but with only 2 eps left, probably not. I'm also taking this opportunity to re-cast some of the my earlier re-casting.

 

Justified 4: Ghosts of Harlan County (1984)

 

Raylan Givens: Clint Eastwood

 

Boyd Crowder: Warren Oates

 

Ava Crowder: Linda Haynes

 

Art Mullen: Ben Johnson

 

Tim: Tommy Lee Jones

 

Rachel: Beverly Todd

 

Shelby: Rip Torn

 

Constable Bob: John Candy

 

Ellen-May: Sondra Locke

 

 

Johnny Crowder: Luke Askew

 

Colt: Wings Hauser

 

Nicky Augustine: Jim Bellushi

 

Wynn Duffy: Bruce Dern

 

Hunter Mosely: Fred Ward

 

 

with Randolph Scott as Arlo Givens

 

and Lee Marvin as Theo Tonin

I doubt this is the most seen film out there, but the Vincent Price original is really good and is on Netflix instant. 

 

The Masque of the Red Death (2013)

Dir. Neil Marshall

 

Christoph Waltz as Prince Prospero

 

Jennifer Connelly as Juliana, his mistress

 

Peter Dinklage as Hop Toad, a dwarf jester

 

 Evan Rachel Wood as Francesca, a peasant girl

 

Richard Madden as Gino, Francesca's lover

 

Kevin McKidd as Ludovico, Francesca's father

 

Corey Stoll as Lord Alfredo (the baboon reveler)

Extreme Prejudice

 

Written by Graham Yost

 

Directed by Vince Gilligan

 

Jack Benteen: Walton Goggins

 

 

Cash Bailey: Timothy Olyphant

 

 

Sarita Cisneros: Carmen Serano

 

 

Sheriff Hank Pearson: Jim Beaver

 

 

Maj. Paul Hackett: Dean Norris

 

MSGt. Larry McRose: Brent Sexton

 

Sgt. Buck Atwater: Ron Elard

 

SSgt. Declan Patrick Coker: David Meurnier

 

Sgt. Charles Biddle: Chris Chalk

 

Sgt. Luther Fry: Demetrius Gross

 

Merv: Jonathan Banks

 

Hector: Raymond Cruz

 

Lupo: Charles Baker

 

Monday: Page Kennedy

 

Chub Luke: Mickey Jones

 

 

 

T.C. Luke: Pruitt Taylor Vince

Escape From New York 2014

 

Misha Collins - Snake Plissken

 

Dwayne Johnson - The Duke

 

Josh Brolin - Hauk

 

Steve Carell - Brain

 

Jim Beaver - Cabbie

 

Rhona Mitar - Maggie

 

Richard Dreyfuss - The President

 

 

Joel Silver Presents
A film by John Hyams

Escape from New York (2014)

Josh Brolin as S.D. Bob Plissken.



"Call me Snake"

Liam Neeson as Hauk



"I'M READY TO KICK YOUR ARSE OUT OF THIS WORLD PLISSKEN!"

Paul Giamatti as The President



"Duke A number oooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeee!"

Terry Crews as The Duke



"What did I teach you? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

Danny DeVito as Cabbie



"Hey.... you're Snake Plissken! I thought you'd be taller!"

Walton Goggins as Brain



"I... I.... swear to God, Snake, I thought you were dead."

Kari Wuhrer as Maggie



"Just... go. GO!"

Tommy Wiseau as Romero



"You touch me... he dies. If you're not in the air in thirty seconds... he dies. You come back in... he dies."

and

Steve Austin as Slag The Fighter

Escape From New York (2014)

 

Directed By Frederic Jardin

 

Snake: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

 

 

Hauk: Powers Boothe

 

The President: Gerald McRaney

 

The Duke: Micheal K Williams

 

Brain: Jeremy Davies

 

Maggie: Christina Hendricks

 

Cabbie: Billy Bob Thorton

 

with Denis Levant as Romero

Well, as everyone is doing Escape from New York, I'll repost my recast...

 

Edited by axelbratoski - 4/8/13 at 7:56pm

Inspired by this recent bit of news. (I know this isn't technically a recast since Kubrick never actually made the movie, but I figure this would be more at home here than anywhere else.) This cast assumes that the production (movie, TV mini-series, whatever) hews pretty closely to this 1969 draft screenplay.

 

 

Steven Spielberg Presents

 

Stanley Kubrick's

N  A  P  O  L  E  O  N

 

 

In Order Of Appearance:

 

 

Narrated by Charlotte Rampling

 

 

Napoleon   -   Leonardo DiCaprio

 

 

 

Barras   -   Kevin Spacey

 

 

 

Joséphine   -   Jennifer Ehle

 

 

 

Eugène de Beauharnais   -   Josh Hutcherson

 

 

 

Hippolyte Charles   -   Aaron Taylor-Johnson

 

 

 

Joseph Bonaparte   -   Giovanni Ribisi

 

 

 

Junot   -   Ben Foster

 

 

 

Delbrel   -   Roger Allam

 

 

 

Emperor Francis of Austria   -   Stephen Dillane

 

 

 

Tsar Alexander of Russia   -   Christian McKay

 

 

 

Talleyrand   -   Sir Anthony Hopkins

 

 

 

Duroc   -   William Fichtner

 

 

 

Archduchess Marie-Louise   -   Sophie Turner

 

 

 

Caulaincourt   -   Mark Strong

 

 

 

Rostopchin   -   Hugo Weaving

 

 

 

Kutusov   -   Kenneth Cranham

 

THERE WILL BE BLOOD
 

(1977)

 

 

 George C. Scott as Daniel Plainview

 

           

 

Brad Dourif as Eli Sunday

 

             

 

 

Dexter Fletcher as H.W. Plainview

 

  

 

Harry Dean Stanton as Henry

 

 

G.D. Spradlin as Fletcher

 

           

 

Robert J. Wilke as Abel Sunday

 

    

 

Pat Hingle as William Bandy

 

      

 

Melissa Gilbert as Mary Sunday

 

          

 

 

                            with:

 

Shelley Duvall as Adult Mary Sunday

 

  

 

and

 

Richard Thomas as Adult H.W. Plainview

 

     

Django Unchained

I admired DiCaprio for even trying, but I couldn't quite buy him as Calvin Candie. Something about it was just off.

My suggestion would be to cast Christian Bale. Seriously, check out his amazing villain turn in Shaft. His delivery of the line "Homeboy's got rhythm" feels so much more unnerving and hateful than DiCaprio managed. Bale has the skill set to play a world class racist villain with a capital 'V'. Plus it would be the perfect pairing to team him with Sam Jackson. A Shaft reunion.

 

Of course it would.

He's the right actor at the right age for that role. I think I laid out a pretty compelling case.

Look, I think Bale is probably the best actor of his generation. He's not right for everything, but why settle for less when Bale fits this part to a 't'? Bale's villain turn in Shaft is so much fun and so punchably evil he seems perfect for Calvin Candie, and it would be an amazing serendipity to reteam him with Sam Jackson given their roles in Django and past history with exploitation cinema reboots.

Additionally I'd have cast Will Smith as Django and let him get Tarantino to rewrite the script with a bigger focus on Django like Smith wanted. The film is unbalanced in it's current form. Waltz doesn't quite to manage to justify the script's fixation on his character, as charming as he is. If Smith wanted to tone down the violence or handling of race though I'd say no and let Jamie Foxx stay since Foxx did a good job even if he was handicapped out of the gate in trying to own the screen given Waltz seemingly having staked out a claim to most of it. Smith's more muscular charisma could at least have potentially battled Waltz back a bit.

I'm sure he would have been good in the role, I just like giving you a hard time about mentioning Bale so much.

Having a laugh, are we? Haha, fair enough.

DODGEBALL:

 

A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY

 

(1984)

 

 

Bill Murray as Peter LeFleur

 

 

Burt Reynolds as White Goodman

 

 

Carrie Fisher as Kate Veach

 

 

Lawrence Tierney as Patches O'Houlihan

 

 

Anthony Michael Hall as Justin

 

 

Rick Moranis as Gordon

 

 

Kevin Kline as Steve the Pirate

 

 

Vincent Schiavelli as Owen

 

 

David Alan Grier as Dwight

 

 

Jane Dornacker as Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky

 

 

Bubba Smith as Me'shell

 

 

Leslie Nielsen as Cotton McKnight

 

 

Fred Willard as Pepper Brooks

 

 

Wiliam Zabka as Derek

 

 

Kerri Green as Amber

 

 

Brian Doyle-Murray as The Dodgeball Chancellor

 

 

with special appearances by:

 

Muhammad Ali as Himself, Inspirational Athlete and Dodgeball Fan

 

 

Jerry Lewis as Himself, Coach of the French Dodgeball Team

 

 

and

 

Charlton Heston as Himself, Mystery Judge

 

Who plays young Patches?

Good question.

 

 

I know he doesn't much look or sound like Tierney, but he can do comedy, he never turns down a role, and it would be worth the price of admission just to hear him recite the 5 "D"s of Dodgeball.

Sexy Beast (1935)

Dir. Raoul Walsh

 

Edward G. Robinson - Gal Dove

 

 

James Cagney - Don Logan

 

 

Paul Muni - Teddy Bass

 

 

Pat O'Brien - Harry

 

 

Glenda Farrell - Deedee Dove

 

 

Wallace Berry - Aitch

 

 

Mae Clarke - Jackie

 

In the early '70s, Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran and NYU film school alum writes an original screenplay about two lifelong friends -- a disillusioned ex-Navy SEAL and an idealistic Berkeley grad -- who become Southern California's top pot dealers and are forced to make their way south of the border when their mutual girlfriend is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel.

 

The screenplay manages, miraculously, to make its way into the hands of Sam Peckinpah, who decides it would be perfect for his next film . . .  

 

 

                SAVAGES 

                               (1972)

 

 

Cybill Shepherd as O 

 

 

Bo Hopkins as Chon

 

 

Keith Carradine as Ben 

 

 

Isela Vega as Elena Sanchez

 

 

Anthony Quinn as Lado

 

 

Alfonso Arau as Alex

 

 

Emilio Fernandez as El Azul

 

 

Charlie Martin Smith as Spin

 

 

and

 

Warren Oates as Dennis

 

Are there any Mods who can rename this thread, or simply remove the reference to "2011"?

 

I know it's nit-picky but the two year old title irks me!

JURASSIC PARK (2014): Rebooted to more closely follow the book, garnering the first "R" rating for a "Jurassic Park" movie.

 

Dr. Alan Grant - Hugh Jackman

 

Dr. Ellie Sattler - Cobie Smulders

 

Dr. Ian Malcolm - James Franco

 

John Hammond - Michael Caine

 

Robert Muldoon - Jason Isaacs

 

Dennis Nedry - Jorge Garcia

 

John "Ray" Arnold - Idris Elba

 

Dr. Henry Wu - John Cho

 

 

Dr. Lewis Dodgson - Edward Norton

I like that a lot, actually.

 

Especially Franco and Caine.

Might I suggest John Hamm as Donald Gennero, action lawyer?

What the hell, I was bored and in the mood for casting because of the Alien draft...

 

Jurassic Park (2013)

 

Eric Bana as Dr. Alan Grant

 

"Uh... it's... it's a dinosaur!"

 

 

Abbie Cornish as Dr. Ellie Slater

 

"T-T-Rex?"

 

 

Adrien Brody as Dr. Ian Malcolm

 

"That is one big pile of shit."

 

 

Geoffrey Rush as John Hammond

 

"We have a T-Rex."

 

 

Jorah Mormont as Robert Muldoon

 

"Clever girl."

 

 

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Ray Arnold

 

"Hold on to your butts."

 

 

Andy Lau as Henry Wu

 

"Uh, it's a velociraptor."

 

 

Richard Jenkins as Donald Gennaro

 

"Are these characters... auto-erotica?"

 

 

Matt Jones as Dennis Nedry

 

"Uh uh uh! You didn't say the magic word! Uh uh uh! Uh uh uh!"

 

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

 

 

Suraj Sharma as Kumar Patel

 

 

 

 

 

Justin Chon as Harold Lee

 

 

 

 

Selena Gomez as Maria

Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Grease and still do.  But I would like to see it with actual high school aged children casted.

GAME OF THRONES - THE ROCK OPERA

 

Okay, I'm sure everyone has seen the King Joffrey Bieber photo-shops. They got me and my friends discussing an all musician version of Game Of Thrones. Obviously, it's a massive cast, so I'm not going to go for everyone, but I thought of a few cool choices. Anyone else please jump in with suggestions. Maybe give reasons why (and stick with living musicians at their current age). And obviously, no spoilers.

 

Joffrey: Duh

 

Ned Stark: Bruce Springsteen

Noble, honorable, working class. Has a hugely devoted peoples. Winter Is Coming sounds like the title of a Springsteen song. Plus, Winterfell seems about as pleasant as New Jersey.

 

Catelyn Stark: Patti Scialfa

Because she's Bruce Springsteen's wife, a strong performer herself, and look at her.

 

Tywin Lannister: David Bowie

Because he's the smartest guy in whatever room he's in, and he's got that tyrannical, royal air about him.

 

Cersie: Madonna

Evil, over the hill, not half as smart as she thinks.

 

Littlefinger: Nick Cave

Intelligent, sleazy, sinister. The guy I kind of want to win in the end.

 

 

The White Walkers: The Rolling Stones

Because they've been around since the dawn of time and they are almost impossible to kill.

 

The often spoke of, never seen Mad King is obviously Micheal Jackson. Even though they look and act nothing alike, I think Varys should be played by Ted Nugent, since they both have no dick.

 

I'm looking forward to more from the rest of you people.

Robert Baratheon: Steve Van Zandt

 

 

Old friend of Springsteen, more success with him than alone.

 

Tyrion Lannister: Prince

 

 

Tiny, surprisingly popular with the ladies.

 

Jaime Lannister: Rick Allen

 

 

For obvious reasons.

 

Khal Drogo: Glenn Danzig

 

 

Has long hair, gets very angry easily. 

I think Danzig would work better as The Hound, since everyone kind of hates, but still respects him.

 

I was considering Rick Allen for Jamie, but figured someone would do it for me.

IN 1985, JUSTICE IS COMING

 

JOHN CARPENTER'S

DREDD

 

   Starring...       KU RT RUSSELL  as  JUDGE DREDD

 

 

LINDA HAMILTON  as  CASSANDRA ANDERSON

 

 

KEITH DAVID  as  KAY

 

 

CHARLES MARTIN SMITH as  CLAN TECHIE

 

 

 and  SI GOURNEY WEAVER as MA-MA