# Recast (badly) famous movie roles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241 "2007-06-08T11:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/41 "2007-06-09T04:57:25Z")
Tobey Maguire as Rick Blaine in _Casablanca_. Elliot Gould is Atticus Finch in _To Kill a Mockingbird_ [QUOTE=silenus] Remake The Adventures of Robin Hood and cast someone totally wrong for Errol Flynn’s part. Say, some American who can’t do an English accent. Hmmm… [/QUOTE] Dustin Hoffman. Or Jack Nicholson. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/42 "2007-06-09T05:02:26Z")
**Gone With the Wind** recast: Sarah Michelle Gellar as Scarlett Clay Aiken as Ashley Al Pacino as Rhett Butler Wanda Sykes as Mammy Chris Rock as Pork Sanjaya as Prissy Scarlett: I’m going to Atlanta to get that money and I’ve gotta go looking like a queen. Mammy: Whatever, I’m free. I don’t give a damn. Pick me up a light saber bong if you go by _The Junkman’s Daughter_\*. (\*popular head/kitsch shop in ATL) Rhett: Oh, I really don’t think you’re gonna lock me out Scarlett… oh hoo-wah, I know you’re not going to lock me out! [after Rhett carries Scarlett upstairs the camera stops on the door] Scarlett: Let me say hello to your little friend! Rhett: Hoo-wah! You know how to hurt a man, honeybun! Scarlett: A Yankee… in Tara… hey, how bout we have a martial arts style ass kicking right here in this old ruined plantation house?! (proceeds to make it happen) Prissy: Why’d you slap me? Was it for saying I could birth a baby when I couldn’t? Scarlett: No, it was for what you were doing to that Negro spiritual. Good God do you just not even know what melody is? Prissy: I thought she was the one having the baby… Ow! Why’d you slap me that time? Scarlett: Pork, I want you to have Papa’s gold watch… but I can’t find it. I know he had it on him when he got on the horse… Pork: Yeah, how about that. I didn’t see it anywhere on him when I went through his pockets after the fall. Say, what’s a freedman gotta do to get a rib around here? ## Scarlett: Oh Ashley Ashley Ashley… tell me you love me and I’ll live on it forever! Ashley: I… I… really like you Scarlett. Say, when’s Rhett coming back? STAR WARS Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford as Obi Wan Kenobi in STAR WARS “Your daddy left you his light saber. But I sold it.” ## Stormtrooper: We will search this vehicle and… Obi: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for… Stormtrooper: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for… Obi: Personally, I think you’re a fruitcake… Stormtrooper: I think I’m a fruitcake. Obi: And would I be sure… if I didn’t care… Stormtrooper: And would I be sure… if I didn’t care… Luke: POP! Cut it out! It was funny the first few times. Johnny Depp as Keith Richards as Jack Sparrow as Obi Wan Kenobi in _Return of the Sith_ Y’know… abandoning Padme was… well you’ve got other problems to deal with so I’ll stay out of your private life. When you killed the Jedi you didn’t happen to pick up their space-rum did you? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/43 "2007-06-09T05:07:09Z")
Jim Carrey IS … the Terminator! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/44 "2007-06-09T05:23:42Z")
Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton in _The Miracle Worker_. "Wait, which one of us is the retard again? Okay… “Woggle oggle boggle woggle…” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/45 "2007-06-09T05:50:18Z")
The Princess Bride: Tom Cruise as Westley Ally Sheedy as Buttercup Robin Williams as Prince Humperdink Billy Crystal as Count Rogan Verne Troyer as Fezzig (always shot from ground up, to appear taller…) Carlos Mencia as Inigo Montoya Woody Allen as Vencini Tobey Maguire and Mary Kate Olsen as Miracle Max and Valeri ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/46 "2007-06-09T10:23:39Z")
Julie Kavner in _Body Heat_ Rosalind Russell in _The Nun’s Story_ Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in _Pulp Fiction_ Lauren BeCall as Nellie in _South Pacific_ Tom Arnold in _Papillion_ Sam Waterston in the Peter O’Toole role in _The Ruling Class_ It is my opinion that three actors can damn well play anything they please including cameos as each other: Judi Dench, Meryl Streep and Billy Bob Thornton. I once spotted Billy Bob disguised as Jackson Hole, Wyoming in an art film. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/47 "2007-06-09T10:38:38Z")
> [@](#): > > I once spotted Billy Bob disguised as Jackson Hole, Wyoming in an art film. Yeah, but you have to admit that Lauren Graham did an excellent job as the French Quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/48 "2007-06-09T11:25:11Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] Sam Waterston in the Peter O’Toole role in _The Ruling Class_ [/QUOTE] You know, I just happened to watch **The Ruling Class** last night. I can actually see this working if the director made Wooden Sam chug a triple espresso before every scene. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/49 "2007-06-09T13:00:28Z")
Danny DeVito as the Terminator. Jack Nickolson as The Mask. It might actually work out good, but it would sure be a different kind of movie. Christopher Walken as Gandhi. Roseanne Barr _is_ the Bride in _Kill Bill_. Jim Carrey as Emperor Palpatine ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/50 "2007-06-09T13:15:14Z")
Bobcat Goldthwait in pretty much any role mentioned in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/51 "2007-06-09T13:43:22Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] Bobcat Goldthwait in pretty much any role mentioned in this thread. [/QUOTE] _Stellllla!_ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/52 "2007-06-09T13:44:47Z")
Good stuff, y’all. Here’s a new batch of roles to recast: Mel Gibson in _Road Warrior_ Alan Ladd and Jack Palance in _Shane_ Joe Don Baker (or The Rock) in _Walking Tall_ Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in _Bonnie and Clyde_ Michael Rennie in _The Day The Earth Stood Still_ Elizabeth Taylor in _A Place in the Sun_ Jane Russell in _The Outlaw_ (have you seen this?) Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature in _Samson and Delilah_ Jane Fonda in _Klute_ Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ And how about some of the other franchise roles? Charles Bronson in the _Death Wish_ group Peter Sellers in the Inspector Clouseau things Rock Hudson and Doris Day in their stuff Cheetah in the Tarzan movies… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/53 "2007-06-09T13:49:32Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] _Stellllla!_ [/QUOTE] Just think of how many people could deliver that line with a personal touch: Gilbert Gottfried Henny Youngman Bob Hope Jerry Lewis Mel Blanc Jackie Gleason Dennis Weaver Charlie Weaver Charlie Callas Maria Callas Carol Channing Ed Sullivan ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/54 "2007-06-09T13:55:52Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Just think of how many people could deliver that line with a personal touch: Gilbert Gottfried [/QUOTE] I’ll never hear the AFLAC commercials the same way again. “I have always depended upon the supplemental insurance of strangers!” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/55 "2007-06-09T14:05:56Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I’ll never hear the AFLAC commercials the same way again. “I have always depended upon the supplemental insurance of strangers!” [/QUOTE] Hey, listen! You’ve just come up with a great thread concept: commercial spokespersons/voices that need (or could be funnier if) other celebrities were inserted. If you’re game, why not start such a thread. Some ideas: Mr. Clean Billy Mays (that screaming Oxyclean idiot) Head On Geico’s Gecko Allstate (who could replace Haysbert) I bet you could get a list of 20 before slowing down. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/56 "2007-06-09T14:10:36Z")
Mel Brooks _is_ Citizen Kane. Also starring: Owen Wilson as Jed Leland Keanu Reeves as Jerry Thompson Eddie Izzard as Agnes Morehead as Mary Kane ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/57 "2007-06-09T14:29:19Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] If you’re game, why not start such a thread. [/QUOTE] I’m game, but fact is, _you_ came up with the idea. I’d feel dirty\* stealing it. - Okay, dirtier than I usually feel. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/58 "2007-06-09T14:31:18Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I’m game, but fact is, _you_ came up with the idea. I’d feel dirty\* stealing it. - Okay, dirtier than I usually feel. [/QUOTE] Well, you have my blessings to go for it. I start too many threads like that anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/59 "2007-06-09T15:01:28Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > Danny DeVito as the Terminator. Well, he and “Ahnaud” are twins… > [@Der Trihs](#): > > Jim Carrey as Emperor Palpatine Carrey is an excellent actor, and could probably play menacing evil very convincingly [QUOTE=Zeldar] Mel Gibson in Road Warrior Alan Ladd and Jack Palance in Shane Joe Don Baker (or The Rock) in Walking Tall Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde Michael Rennie in The Day The Earth Stood Still Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun Jane Russell in The Outlaw (have you seen this?) Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah Jane Fonda in Klute Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest And how about some of the other franchise roles? Charles Bronson in the Death Wish group Peter Sellers in the Inspector Clouseau things Rock Hudson and Doris Day in their stuff Cheetah in the Tarzan movies… [/QUOTE] Matthew Broderick in Road Warrior Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller in Shane Willie Garson in Walking Tall Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr in Bonnie and Clyde Robin Williams in The Day The Earth Stood Still Tara Reid in A Place in the Sun Dolly Parton in The Outlaw (have you seen this?)(yes - very bizarre casting but a decent film) Mandy Moore and Chris Evans in Samson and Delilah Queen Latifah in Klute Aida Turturro as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest And how about some of the other franchise roles? Steve Martin in the Death Wish group Steve Martin in the Inspector Clouseau things (yes I know it has begun, but it is awful, awful casting) Freddie Prinze Jr and Sarah Michele Gellar in their stuff Triumph, the insult comic dog in the Tarzan movies… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/60 "2007-06-09T17:02:41Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Good stuff, y’all. Here’s a new batch of roles to recast: [/QUOTE] Paul Reubens in _Road Warrior_ Mike Myers and Mike Myers-with-a-menacing-accent in _Shane_ Danny Devito in _Walking Tall_ Nathan Lane and Ellen Degeneres in _Bonnie and Clyde_ The Late Anna Nicole Smith in edited footage in _The Outlaw_ Queen Latifah and Will Ferrell in _Samson and Delilah_ Linda Hunt as Nurse Ratched in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ Elijah Wood in the _Death Wish_ group (you can only kill his wife once before he’ll pout you into a corner) Max von Sydow in the Inspector Clouseau things (“That… is not… my dog…”- instead of Blake Edwards the films are now David Lynch productions) Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates in Hudson/Day stuff (with Joseph Gordon Levitt in the Tony Randall role) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241.md?page=4)