I beleive Tom Cruise could do a great Western movie. Jack Nicholson as Dracula. In other words, an actor/actress that would be cast as something completely different successfully. Not Helen Mirren as Frankenstein, no, rather Robert Redford as a villain. Perhaps some Jane Fonda as Batman. Oprah Winfrey as Tom Sawyer.
Anything, use your imagination
Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper in Some Like It Hot.
I would pay good money to see that movie!
Frankenstein, Breasts Unbound
Robert Redford did play a villain in one of the Marvel movies.
The Maltese Falcon
(I am picturing the actors circa mid- to late 1980s.)
Michael Clark Duncan as Casper Gutman.
Gregory Hines as Joel Cairo.
Jaleel White as Wilmer Cook.
Denzel Washington as detective Sam Cracker.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier. One of the best MCU movies (IMO), in part because it’s an espionage film at its heart. And Redford was really good as the unexpected villain.
Yes, it was a lot better for people who were not familiar with the comics, who got a cool surprise.
What a great start, how about Dame Edna as Spiderman
I’ve always kind of wanted to see a Dracula who — after a couple of close calls over the years — has wisely concluded that his best shot at surviving the modern world involves amiably putting people at ease with polite warmth. Heck, just to keep from getting sloppy he maybe doesn’t even drop the act when alone with a single under-his-spell thrall; he’s going to get what he wants anyway, so why not keep polishing up that ‘likable and low-key guy’ persona?
So, yeah: Bakula as Dracula.
And Endgame, briefly
A live action Count Chocula, with guest star Bakula as Dracula.
Which one would play the Marilyn role?
Boris Karloff played Peter Cauchon, in charge of the trial of Joan of Arc, in the Broadway run of Jean Anhouilh’s The Lark. I would’ve loved to have seen him play the same role in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, either on stage or in a film.
Karloff as Cauchon in The Lark
Ray Harryhausen produced several sketches and even some test footage for a version of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds that he wanted to do. But George Pal beat him to it with his 1953 film. But Harryhausen’s would have had tripods, unlike George Pal’s version. And in stop-motion, with that "strobing " effect, they would have looked appropriately mechanical, just as the AT-ATs in The Empire Strikes Back did.
Harryhausen’s version wouldn’t have been completely faithful, judging from the sketches, but it still would’ve been closer than Pal’s version was
I would have liked to see Philip Seymour Hoffman as Kingpin in a Spiderman movie.
Robert Mitchum
William H Macy would have been a perfect Dagwood Bumstead.
A real life could-have-been: we could have had a Matrix with Wil Smith as Neo, but he turned it down (he didn’t want to be in another sci-fi movie at the time) in favor of Wild Wild West. He reportedly wasn’t too proud of that decision in retrospect as I recall.
Jonathan Harris as Dave Bowman and the Lost in Space Robot as HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Danger, Dave Bowman! Danger!
Never fear, Bowman is here.
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you.
Silence, you ninny!
And the monolith would be a giant carrot.
Obviously, Anthony Hopkins crushed it, but I always thought Jeremy Irons would’ve made a great Lecter.
Jude Law as James Bond.
A chilling saga of The Dyatlov Pass incident Nobody knows what really happened, but a really good storyteller could come up a very good movie. Eschew the Hollywood crap.
There’s a great movie to be made about the Kent State incident - he’s a new National Guard member, she’s a Kent State coed. They are about to collide with destiny!