# Re-cast a classic movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114 "2003-07-03T21:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/21 "2003-07-07T23:50:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ddgryphon \* > Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (50’s) > > Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) - Anthony Perkins > Princess Leia Organna (Carrie Fisher) - Elizabeth Taylor I don’t know. I’m kinda expecting George Lucas to remake this with Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman. After all, that’s how he always meant to do it, he just had to wait for them to be born. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/22 "2003-07-08T00:25:59Z")
A live-action version of **Monsters, Inc.** Sulley (John Goodman) - Boris Karloff Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) - Peter Lorre Celia (Jennifer Tilly) - Elsa Lanchester Randall Boggs (Steve Buscemi) - Lon Chaney, Jr. Henry J Waternoose III (James Coburn) - Bela Lugosi Boo (Mary Gibbs) - Shirley Temple ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/23 "2003-07-08T02:12:57Z")
**Labyrinth** Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) - Mena Suvari Jareth (David Bowie) - Jeff Goldblum baby Toby (Toby Froud) - Jonathan Lipnicki Hoggle ( Shari Weiser) - Chris Klein Ludo (Ron Mueck) - “The Big Show” (w.w.w.e.) Didymus (Dave Goelz)- Martin Short The Junk Lady (Denise Bryer) - Sandra Bernhard The Worm ( Timothy Bateson) - Hugh Grant Step-Mother (Shelley Thompson)- Rhea Perlman Father (Christopher Malcolm) - Kurtwood Smith ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/24 "2003-07-08T15:17:45Z")
QUENTIN TARANTINO’S GONE WITH THE WIND Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler: Juliette Lewis Husband 1 (Charles Hamilton): Quentin Tarantino Husband 2 (Frank Kennedy): Steve Buscemi Rhett Butler: Woody Harrelson Mammy: Ving Rhames (in drag ala [Holiday Heart](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0250425) Gerald O’Hara: Harvey Keitel Polk: Jackie Chan ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/25 "2003-07-10T01:26:18Z")
**The Wizard of Oz** Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) - Mae Whitman The Wizard (Frank Morgan) - Dan Aykroyd The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) - Ben Vereen The Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) - John Goodman The Tin Man (Jack Haley) - Harry Connick, Jr. Glinda, the Good Witch of the North (Billie Burke) - Carol Kane The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) - Tracey Ullman Uncle Henry (Charley Grapewin) - Robin Williams Auntie Em (Clara Blandick) - Camryn Manheim ---
**Author:** ![ElfWarriorFuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/94ad74/32.png) [@ElfWarriorFuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElfWarriorFuzzy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/26 "2003-07-10T04:42:48Z")
The Matrix: Neo: Joey Lawrence(whoa!) ---
**Author:** ![ElfWarriorFuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/94ad74/32.png) [@ElfWarriorFuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElfWarriorFuzzy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/27 "2003-07-10T04:46:40Z")
The Matrix: ``` Neo: Joey Lawrence (WHOA!!!) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/28 "2003-07-10T12:14:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\ ***The Wizard of Oz** > Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) - Mae Whitman > The Wizard (Frank Morgan) - Dan Aykroyd > The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) - Ben Vereen > The Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) - John Goodman > The Tin Man (Jack Haley) - Harry Connick, Jr. > Glinda, the Good Witch of the North (Billie Burke) - Carol Kane > The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) - Tracey Ullman > Uncle Henry (Charley Grapewin) - Robin Williams > Auntie Em (Clara Blandick) - Camryn Manheim \*\* Ben Vereen as the Scarecrow? I would love that. Reading these ideas, I suddenly had an image of Melanie Griffin as Evita. What with her being Mrs. Antonio Bandaras, who starred as Che, and her getting preggers the same time as Madonna. Now excuse me while I go barf. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114/29 "2003-07-11T18:44:59Z")
**King Lear** _House of Lear_ King Lear - Ronald Reagan Goneril- Emma Samms The Duke of Albany(Goneril’s husband) - Treat Williams Regan- Shannen Doherty The Duke of Cornwall (Regan’s husband) - Brad Pitt Cordelia - Reese Witherspoon The King of France (Cordelia’s Husband) - Johnny Depp _House of Glocester_ The Earl of Glocester- Richard Lewis Edgar- Skeet Ulrich Edmund- Colin Hanks _others_ The Duke of Burgandy- Leonardo DiCaprio The Fool- Danny DeVito Kent- Lou Diamond Phillips [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-a-classic-movie/186114.md?page=1)