Recast Your Favorite Movies For 2005

Daredevil

With Ed Norton- Daredevil

Bridgette Monyhan-Electra

Christian Bale- Bullseye

James Gandolfini- Kingpin.

Affleck wasn't a bad Daredevil, regardless of what people on the hate bandwagon say. They should watch the Directors Cut. It was a much better film, and more accurate to the character.

Nice job resurrecting the thread, Stormin. I offer the 2005 version of THE PHILADELPHIA STORY:

Tracy Samantha Lord: JENNIFER CONNELLY



C.K. Dexter Haven: PAUL BETTANY



Mike Connor: HUGH JACKMAN



Liz Imbrie: GRETCHEN MOL



George Kittredge: CHRISTOPHER EIGEMAN



Uncle Willie: BRENT SPINER



Seth Lord: COLM FEORE



Margaret Lord: BETH BRODERICK



Dinah Lord: ZOOEY DESCHANEL



Coming soon: MANHUNTER and THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE

Because I'm a progressive, forward-thinking kinda guy, I've decided to recast the 2005 version of MANHUNTER...with chicks!

Willa Graham, the forensic investigator: NAOMI WATTS



Mal Graham, Willa's husband: NOAH WYLE



Jackie Crawford, Willa's superior officer: VIOLA DAVIS



Ruben McClane, the blind dude: JAKE WEBER



Winifred Lounds, the tabloid reporter: AMANDA PEET



Frances Dollarhyde, the 'Tooth Fairy': RACHEL GRIFFITHS



and Dr Hannah Lecktor, the stone-cold psycho: TILDA SWINTON



Coming soon: THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE...and a male-oriented version of MANHUNTER

Tilda Swinton as Lector? That's awesome.

I'm trying to come up with ideas, but I'm falling short. Ideas?

Thanks, Rath. I was thinking Kristin Scott Thomas for a while. And Judy Davis would have torn that shit up. But Tilda landed it based on her cool androgynous quality and her exquisite line readings in CONSTANTINE (loved that matter-of-fact "You're fucked" to Keanu).

Okay, so here's the testosterone-heavy 2005 remake of MANHUNTER (let's just try to forget Brett Ratner's RED DRAGON ever happened, shall we?), directed by Christopher Nolan:

Will Graham: CAMPBELL SCOTT



Molly Graham: EMBETH DAVIDTZ



Jack Crawford: CHRIS COOPER



Reba McClane: CATE BLANCHETT



Freddy Lounds: ROBERT DOWNEY, JR



Francis Dollarhyde: SEAN PENN



Dr Hannibal Lecktor: JAMES SPADER



Coming soon: THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE

Glengarry Glen Ross

Shelly "The Machine" Levine: Gary Busey

Ricky Roma: Steven Seagal

Ed Harris character: Michael Ironside?



don't know the rest, haven't really thought it through.

Sin City for the early to mid 90's:

Marv: Dolph Lundgren (I know, I have a problem)
Goldie: Uma Thurman
Dwight: Matt Dillon
Manute: Bill Duke
Kevin: Corey Feldmen
Hartigan: Tom Berenger
Jackie Boy: Billy Zane
Nancy: Denise Richards

I think in the thread from last year I said Michael Chiklis and Brian Cox would make for a great McClaine/Gruber combo in "Die Hard." I think now I would switch Chiklis with his "Shield" co-star Walt Goggins.

No.

This part I agree with.

Actually, I can see what you might be trying to do here. Glengarry Glen Ross with a cast of '80s-era B-list tough guys. Novel concept, and anything that gets Jeff Speakman (he'd play Alec Baldwin's role!) and Michael Dudikoff (he'd be the chump Ricky Roma chats up in the bar) off the streets is all right by me.

X-MEN, circa 1966.

YUL BRYNNER as PROFESSOR X

RAQUEL WELCH as JEAN GREY

ERNEST BORGNINE as THE BEAST

CLINT EASTWOOD as WOLVERINE

MARLON BRANDO as MAGNETO

SPIDER-MAN:

ROBERT DE NIRO as PETER PARKER

SANDRA DEE as GWEN STACY

WILLIAM HOLDEN as J. JONAH JAMESON

JAMES COBURN as UNCLE BEN

LEE J. COBB as NORMAN OSBORN


STAR WARS, circa now.

RYAN REYNOLDS as HAN SOLO

ZOOEY DESCHANEL as PRINCESS LEIA

CHOW YUN-FAT as OBI-WAN KENOBI

WILLEM DAFOE as TARKIN

JEREMY IRONS as THE EMPEROR

Ghostbusters:

Dr Peter Veinkman - David Duchovney
Dr Egon Spengler - Antoney Stewart Head
Dr Ray Stance - Martin Freeman

Dana Barrett - Teri Hatcher
Winston Zeddmore - Chris Rock
Louis Tully - Elijah Wood

Well, I'm taking on a classic, I'm recasting The Big Sleep because I always wanted to.

Bruce Willis as Philip Marlowe:


Cate Blanchett as Vivian Rutledge-Sternwood:


Kate Winslet as Carmen Sternwood:


Thomas Jane as Eddie Mars:


Billy Bob Thornton as Joe Brody:


Carla Gugino as Joe Brody's smart talkin' woman:


Paul Newman as Gen. Sternwood

Maria Bello as Mona Mars

John C Reilly as Harry Jones

yeah I know, Mike Ironside just doesn't have Ed Harris' whole working schmoe quality does he? so tell me another movie you like.

and hurry it up, because this is taking time away from my China O'Brien remake starring Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes in the Rothrock/Norton roles respectively.

Please tell me Topher Grace plays Luke.

I couldn't think of a Luke. The only name I had was Hayden, who I feel could do really well under an actor's director.

I just can't find many young actors nowadays I'm really a fan of.

I think I can see Michael Ironside in every Ed Harris role except "Milk Money."

The "White Bread" version of "Heat:"
Vincent: Harrison Ford
Neil: Mel Gibson

The "Black" version of "Heat:"
Vincent: Denzel Washington
Neil: Samuel L. Jackson

The "Asian" version:
Vincent: Chow Yun Fat
Neil: Jet Li

The "Action over story" version:
Vincent: Stallone
Neil: Arnold

The "Straight to video" version:
Vincent: Van Damme
Neil: Seagal

The "Marvel Universe" version:
Vincent: Hugh Jackman
Neil: Thomas Jane

The "British" version:
Vincent: Anthony Hopkins
Neil: Alan Rickman

The "Same vibe/half the budget of the original" version:
Vincent: Michael Keaton
Neil: Ray Liotta

The "Early bird special" version of "Heat:"
Vincent: Clint Eastwood
Neil: Sean Connery

The "Black early bird special" version:
Vincent: Sydney Poitier
Neil: Morgan Freeman

Quentin Tarantino's "Heat:"
Vincent: John Travolta
Neil: David Carradine

The "TV Icon" version:
Vincent: Kiefer Sutherland
Neil: James Gandolfini

The "If I ran Hollywood" version:
Vincent: Kurt Russell
Neil: Dolph Lundgren

"Heat" as a comedy:
Vincent: Mike Myers
Neil: Jim Carrey

The "Star Wars" version of Heat:
Vincent : LOBOT

Neil : WAT TAMBOR

Heat directed by Kevin Smith
Vincent: Ben Affleck
Neil: Matt Damon

That was inevitable and all too easy...

Forgive me, but it's a slow day at work and this is my new favorite movie game.

HEAT with babes:
Vincent: Charlize Theron
Neil: Angelina Jolie

HEAT with old broads:
Vincent: Meryl Streep
Neil: Glenn Close

Country Fried HEAT:
Vincent: Tommy Lee Jones
Neil: Billy Bob Thorton

HEAT produced by Joel Silver in 1990:
Vincent: Carl Weathers
Neil: Bruce Willis

HEAT produced by Joel Silver today:
Vincent: Keanu Reeves
Neil: DMX

HEAT in the hood:
Vincent: Larenz Tate
Neil: Ice Cube

HEAT with 80's TV stars:
Vincent: Fred Dryer
Neil: Don Johnson

Animated HEAT:
Vincent: Optimus Prime
Neil: Destro

Disney animated HEAT:
Vincent: Mickey Mouse
Neil: Scar from "The Lion King"

Pixar animated HEAT:
Vincent: Woody
Neil: Hopper from "Bug's Life"

HEAT with football players turned actors:
Vincent: Brian Bosworth
Neil: Howie Long

HEAT if Michael Mann had no balls and made PG-13 movies:
Vincent: Ben Affleck
Neil: George Clooney

Stalag 17. I've got a pretty good set for the prisoners, but I've got nothing for either Schultz or the Kommandant.



Left to right.

Price ("Security"): Jude Law


Sefton: Guy Pearce (although my sister has lobbied for Viggo Mortensen)


Duke: Russell Crowe



Hoffy: Callum Keith Rennie



The Comic Relief.


Harry "Sugar Lips" Shapiro: Giovanni Ribisi


Stosh 'Animal' Kasava: Troy Garity



I...couldn't find a picture of the original Cookie
Cookie: Ryan Phillippe

Heat: Produced by Walt Disney

Vincent: Mickey Mouse
Neil: Donald Duck

HEAT, produced by rubbing two woods together:

Vincent: Elijah Wood

Neil: Edward Woodward

HEAT with actors already in HEAT:

Vincent: Tom Sizemore
Neil: Ted Levine

HEAT with wrestlers turned actors:

Vincent: The Rock
Neil: Roddy Piper

Homo HEAT:

Vincent: Ian Mckellen
Neil: Rupert Everett

HEAT with 80's sitcom dads:

Vincent: Alan Thicke
Neil: Michael Gross

HEAT if Michael Mann wasn't looking to make a profit:

Vincent: Edward James Olmos
Neil: Dennis Farina

Midget HEAT:

Vincent: Verne Troyer
Neil: Tony Cox

Nicely played!

Guys named Bill HEAT:

Vincent: Bill Pullman
Neil: Bill Paxton

HEAT that the Acedemy could not have foolishly ignored:

Vincent: Tom Hanks
Neil: Russell Crowe

HEAT with an epic sword fight instead of epic shootout:

Vincent: Christopher Lambert
Neil: Liam Neeson

HEAT with an epic car chase instead of epic shootout:

Vincent: Gene Hackman
Neil: Burt Reynolds

HEAT with actors killed or destroyed by the Terminator:

Vincent: Michael Biehn
Neil: Robert Patrick

HEAT with actors killed or destroyed by Robocop

Vincent: Kurtwood Smith
Neil: Tom Noonan

The cast of the 70s TV Show for Spider-Man. When you think about it they probably would be better at it than what Raimi chose. Esp. the Peter-MJ-JJ Jameson combo.

80s Marv: Gary Busey. No need for make-up.

Guys, I hate to be a killjoy, but the alternate Heats/period casts could probally go in another thread. Some of the choices are pretty brilliant, though. I like Fett's Spider-Men through the ages.

killjoy!

HEAT directed by Michael Mann in 1985:

Vincent: William Petersen
Neil: James Caan

HEAT directed by Michael Mann in 2005:

Vincent: Will Smith
Neil: Tom Cruise

I love doing these but they take me a long time. Anyway, here's North by Northwest.

North by Northwest

I LOVE N by NW, but I always imagined Brosnan in the James Mason role and Hugh Grant in the Cary Grant part. Think about it, the lead is a comic performance and Brosnan is far more interesting as a villain.


By the way, here's a great ensemble movie to recast:

The Untouchables!

Hugh Jackman instead of Kevin Costner
James Franco instead of Andy Garcia
Brendan Gleason instead of Sean Connery (why didn't they cast an Irish actor in the 1st place?)
and James Gandolfini (or Bob Hoskins) as Capone
Mickey Rourke as Nitty (the Billy Draco role)

Somebody do Lethal Weapon!

Dangerous Liasons

Cate Blanchett as the Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil (Glenn Close)


Ewen McGregor as the Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont (John Malkovich)


Charlize Theron as Madame Marie de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer)


Adam Brody as Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny (Keanu Reeves)


Scarlett Johnasson as Cécile de Volanges (Uma Thurman)

I hate to be predictable but I'll do Lethal Weapon with Chicks just because I always wanted to.

Laura Linney as Marilyn Riggs:



Pam Grier as Rosalind Murtaugh:



Brenda Blethyn as Gen. McAllister:


Charlize Theron as Ms. Josephine:

THE TERMINATOR:

NAOMI WATTS as Sarah Connor

THOMAS JANE as Kyle Reese

Who could play the T-800?

Kevin Smith's ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND:

BEN AFFLECK as Joel Barish

LIV TYLER as Clementine Kruczynski

JASON LEE as Patrick

MATT DAMON as Stan

GEORGE CARLIN as Dr Howard Mierzwiak

When you're right you're right. Hugh Grant's a much better actor and would be great in the Roger Thornhill part. Don't know why that slipped my mind as I had watched About a Boy earlier that day...

As For Van Damme, Brosnan would be better in that part, I agree. But I'm a huge Sam Neill fan and it's my goal to fit him into every fake remake cast I come up with.

All right, I'm getting this back on track with...

FIELD OF DREAMS
(Written and Directed By Gary Ross)

This recast sets the film during the Baseball Strike of 1994.

Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner)-Aaron Eckhart



Annie Kinsella (Amy Madigan)-Allison Smith



Karin Kinsella (Gaby Hoffman)-Emily Tennant

Couldn't find a decent pick, she was in I, Robot and other minor roles. Chosen only because she looks like she could play Smith and Eckhart's kid, and she's not Dakota Fanning.

Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta)-Joaquin Phoenix



Mark (Timothy Busfield)-Ryan Reynolds



Terence Mann (James Earl Jones)-Avery Brooks



Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham (Burt Lancaster)-Joel Grey



Archie Graham (Frank Whaley)-Benjamin McKenzie



John Kinsella (Dwier Brown)-Thomas Jane



Beulha (Angry PTA Mother)-Reese Witherspoon (cameo)



Some notes:

The Moonlight Graham part was the hardest to cast: Sam Elliott, Richard Dreyfuss, and Chris Cooper were all considered. But I just kept coming back to the Emcee, and even though he's 5'5" to McKenzie's 5'8" and Lancaster's 6'2" (not to mention Eckhart's tall figure), there's a magical quality to him that I think fits the character just right. So if you guys have any other suggestions, fire away.

As for the legendary Terence Mann, Lawrence Fishburne was my first choice--right off the bat, I heard the "People will come, Ray..." speech in his voice. But the age difference isn't right--Jones had around 15-20 years on Costner in 1989. Then I remembered Avery Brooks' performance as a rebellious man of letters iin "American History X"--and his age gap with Eckhart was much closer to what I wanted. I can't see him shouting "Peace, Love, Pot--Now Get The Hell Out!", but I hear "People will come" just fine.

Coming Soon/Suggestions for Others: SNEAKERS (mine, don't nobody take it!), PULP FICTION, GOODFELLAS (Done right, this with a gender-reversed cast would be nine kinds of genius), RESERVOIR DOGS (This was begun in 2004, could use a proper update), THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and CHINATOWN.

Would I be off my rocker to believe Clint Eastwood would make a killer Moonlight Graham?

Nice move reserving SNEAKERS, Rath - that'd be fun to recast. Here's my update of Paul Schrader's 1982 version of CAT PEOPLE:

Irena Gallier: JOY BRYANT



Paul Gallier: TERRENCE HOWARD



Oliver Yates: SIMON BAKER



Alice Perrin: ERICA LEERHSEN



Female: PAM GRIER



Joe Creigh: JUSTIN BARTHA



Bill Searle: DOMINIC PURCELL



Coming soon: THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE and a FAR FROM HEAVEN-style remix of DANGEROUS LIAISONS

Was thinking about Rath's suggestion for a distaff GOODFELLAS and thought I'd throw in a couple of casting suggestions (will add pics later).

By the way, Kathryn Bigelow's directing this one.

Henrietta Hill: RACHEL WEISZ

Tammy DeVito: FAIRUZA BALK

Jenny Conway: MADELEINE STOWE

Darren Hill: MARK RUFFALO

Paulina Cicero: KIRSTIE ALLEY

Feel free to shoot down (or wildly praise) these choices!

Hmmm. I like Balk, but I think she's too intimidating. The frightening thing about Tommy is that he can turn on a dime, you never know what's going to set him off, and Balk just screams "craaaazy." Weisz is nice, but I feel like Henry should be a little younger, too.

Conway's a hard part. I was thinking Angelina Jolie could do well.

And Kathy Bates is Paulie to me. Period.

How about this?

as Henrietta Hill

as Tammy DeVito

And now that I think about it, you're right about Kathy Bates in the Paul Sorvino role. Kirstie Alley can take the Mercedes Ruehl role in my upcoming recast of MARRIED TO THE MOB.

Yes on Silverman--that's exactly the kind of edge I was talking about. Not sure about Forlani, though.

Here's my updated Sneakers (in two parts!). I went a little young on some of the casting.

SNEAKERS
(Directed by Doug Liman)

Martin Bishop/Martin Brice (Robert Redford)-George Clooney



Cosmo (Ben Kingsley)-Robert Downey, Jr.



Donald Crease (Sidney Poiter)-Jeffery Wright



Erwin 'Whistler' Emory (David Straithairn)-Peter Sarsgaard



Mother (Dan Ackroyd)-Paul Giamatti



Carl Arbegast (River Phoenix)-Emile Hirsh

Here's Doug Liman's SNEAKERS, Part II:

Dick Gordon (Timothy Busfield)-Adam Baldwin



Buddy Wallace (Eddie Jones)-Dennis Farina



Liz (Mary McDonnell)-Bridget Moynahan



Dr. Gunter Janek (Donal Logue)-Patton Oswalt



Gregor (George Hearn)-John Glover



Dr. Werner Brandes (Stephen Tobolowsky)-Martin Starr



Bernice Abbott, NSA (James Earl Jones)-Anna Devare Smith



Coming Up: Inspired by the news of the "A Few Good Men" revival in London starring Rob Lowe, I thought I'd try my hand at that. Lowe is, of course, totally wrong for the part--Kaffee should be a snot-nosed, arrogant little shit. So maybe Sarsgaard, again. Given the right director, Ryan Reynolds would be great. I see Nathan "Firefly" Fillion in the Kevin Bacon role, and maybe Rachel McAdams in the Demi Moore part. If I go with Reynolds over Sarsgaard, he'd also be good in the Bacon role, maybe even the Pollock part (although I see that going to someone like Sorkin regular Bradley Whitford).

The Nicholson role's got some mighty big boots to fill, though, and whoever I cast would take it in a completely different direction. I was thinking Clancy Brown, but I'm just not sure. Ideas?

80's Spider-Man:

Peter Parker/Spider-Man - MICHAEL BIEHN

Eddie Brock/Venom - RAY LIOTTA

Cletus Cassidy/Carnage - ANDREW ROBINSON

Norman Osbourne/Green Goblin - JACK NICHOLSON

Harry Osbourne/Green Goblin II - BILL PAXTON

Otto Octavius/Dr. Octopus - CHARLES BRONSON

Curt Conners/The Lizard - KURT RUSSELL

Wilson Fisk/Kingpin - MARLON BRANDO

The Vulture - LEE VAN CLEEF

Tombstone - DOLPH LUNDGREN

J. Jonah Jameson - LEE MARVIN

Rhino - RODDY PIPER

Shocker - BRUCE CAMPBELL

Kraven the Hunter - CLINT EASTWOOD

Mysterio - JEFFREY COMBS

Ironside. Nice. However, I went with a guy who's been talked about a lot around here lately, and could certainly use the "boost."

A FEW GOOD MEN
(Directed by Thomas Schlamme)

Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise)-Ryan Reynolds



Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson)-Michael Wincott



Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore)-Rachel McAdams



Lt. Sam Weinberg (Kevin Pollak)-Liev Schreiber



Capt. Jack Ross (Kevin Bacon)-Wentworth Miller



Lt. Jonathan Kendrick (Kiefer Sutherland)-Nick Stahl



Lt. Col. Matthew Markinson (J.T. Walsh)-Clancy Brown



Pfc. Louden Downey (James Marshall)-Lucas Black



Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson (Wolfgang Bodison)-J. August Richards

Thomas Schlamme's "A Few Good Men" continued:

Dr. Stone (Christopher Guest)-Dylan Baker



Judge Randolph (J.A. Preston)-Barry Shabaka Henley



Lt. Dave Spradling (Matt Craven)-Joshua Malina



Capt. Whitaker (Xander Berkley)-Christian Slater



Cpl. Jeffrey Barnes (Noah Wyle)-Ryan Gosling



Cpl. Carl Hammaker (Cuba Gooding, Jr.)-Dule Hill

Ah, Wincott. There's no beating the rasp, is there?

Peter Berg did an okay job unofficially remaking MIDNIGHT RUN as THE RUNDOWN, but I'm handing the job of directing this 2005 recast of the Martin Brest 1988 original to Kevin Bray, director of the underrated WALKING TALL remake:

Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro): RUSSELL CROWE



Jonathan 'The Duke' Mardukas (Charles Grodin): DAVID DUCHOVNY



FBI Agent Alonzo Mosely (Yaphet Kotto): VING RHAMES



Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina): ANTHONY LaPAGLIA



Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton): CHRISTOPHER MELONI



Eddie Moscone (Joe Pantoliano): JOHN C. McGINLEY



Casting notes: I thought Crowe was the right age for a burnt-out bounty hunter, although I was initially thinking about a Bruce Willis-Steve Martin team-up for the two leads. (If I was going younger, I'd cast Ben Affleck as Jack Walsh, maybe Jason Lee as The Duke.) Duchovny's got the right deadpan style to play well off Crowe's increasingly flustered character. Bernie Mac and Delroy Lindo were alternates for Alonzo Mosely, John Turturro or Steve Buscemi could easily have played Moscone. And I think Meloni could nicely balance the bumbling and dangerous qualities of Walsh's rival, Marvin.

Coming soon: DANGEROUS LIAISONS, MARRIED TO THE MOB and THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE.

If they'd kept HIGH FIDELITY set in London:

Rob Gordon (John Cusack) - Alan Davies:



Barry (Jack Black) - Nick Frost:



Laura (Iben Hjejle) - Jo Joyner:



The one on the far right.

I can't think of anyone for Dick.....

And there's no point doing the entire cast of HALLOWEEN, so I'll put my claim down here for BRIAN COX as Dr Sam Loomis.

It ranks somewhere around VOLUNTEERS and THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (both cool candidates for recasting, by the way) in the Tom Hanks filmography, but I've always had a soft spot for THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE. Here's my cast for an update, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo:

Richard Drew (Tom Hanks): ZACH BRAFF



Maddy (Lori Singer): RACHEL McADAMS



Cooper (Dabney Coleman): CHEVY CHASE



Ross (Charles Durning): DAN AYKROYD



Morris (Jim Belushi): WILL ARNETT



Paula (Carrie Fisher): SARAH SILVERMAN



Brown (Edward Herrmann): RICHARD SCHIFF



Virdon (Irving Metzman): DAVID CROSS



Reese (Tom Noonan): BOB ODENKIRK



Casting notes: It was either Ryan Reynolds or Braff for the lead, and I thought Braff could do a better job of the bemused nice-guy act the role required. I wanted actors with some shared history to play the combative Cooper and Ross, and was originally gonna have Cross and Odenkirk in those roles but then thought they were a bit too young to play veteran spies. So I went with SPIES LIKE US costars Chase and Aykroyd, giving the MR SHOW stars the minor but enjoyable roles of inept field agents Virdon and Reese.