# Recast (badly) famous movie roles

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241>\
**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:** 8\
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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/61 "2007-06-09T19:22:16Z")

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Sir John Gielgud, as Boo Radley in _To Kill a Mockingbird_.

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**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 10, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/62 "2007-06-10T04:11:19Z")

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William Shatner in **The Day the Earth Stood Still**.  
Ann Coulter as Nurse Ratched. (Those patients would be _begging_ for their lobotomies.)

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/63 "2007-06-10T06:13:58Z")

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[QUOTE=Linty Fresh]  
Ann Coulter as Nurse Ratched. (Those patients would be _begging_ for their lobotomies.)  
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It never occurred how much she could make anything into a horror movie:

_Ann Coulter_ as…

_Mary Poppins_

Blanche Dubois in _Streetcar Named Desire_- set during and post-Katrina

Anna in _The King & I_ (new ending: she kills his wives, converts him to Christianity, and eats his children)

Anything she could transform. Cool. She may have some use after all.

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**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/64 "2007-06-10T11:32:32Z")

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Jerry Lewis as Maximus in _Gladiator_

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**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 10, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/65 "2007-06-10T12:07:19Z")

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Georgia Engel (Georgette from _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_) as Pontius Pilate

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**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 10, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/66 "2007-06-10T12:39:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Sampiro]  
_Ann Coulter_ as…

_Mary Poppins_  
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\<shudder\> That’s just . . . _wrong_! 😃

“How do you keep that wig on when you fly, Annie Poppins?”  
“What wig?”  
“Oh . . . sorry . . .”

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/67 "2007-06-10T12:51:47Z")

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Kevin Costner as Hamlet

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-badly-famous-movie-roles/407241/68 "2007-06-10T20:27:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Zeldar]  
Mr. Clean  
Billy Mays (that screaming Oxyclean idiot)  
Head On  
Geico’s Gecko  
**Allstate (who could replace Haysbert)**  
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Nobody \*but \* Gary Coleman, and I mean that in a bad way.

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