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.
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
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
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
Gerald O’Hara: Harvey Keitel
Polk: Jackie Chan
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
The Matrix:
Neo: Joey Lawrence(whoa!)
The Matrix:
Neo: Joey Lawrence (WHOA!!!)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.
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