# Recast....Box Office Bomb "The Alamo" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178 "2004-04-21T05:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/1 "2004-04-21T05:56:22Z")
If Disney was going to remake, The Alamo, they hired the wrong Casting Director. What a sorry bunch of Sea-Level actors. What made the 1960 Alamo Epic so entertaining was the All-Star Cast. Laurence Harvey, was Magnificent as Col. William Barrett Travis. Here would be my choices: ``` 1. William Travis...............Liam Neeson 2. Davy Crockett..............Kevin Costner 3. Jim Bowie.....................Tommy Lee Jones 4. Sam Houston............... Gene Hackman 5. Santa Ana.................... Wes Studi ``` ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/2 "2004-04-21T06:46:59Z")
Yeah. The Kevin Coster could leap off his horse, wrestle Santa Ana to the ground in super slow-motion, turn to the camera and scream, “I INVOKE THE SEVENTH LAW!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/3 "2004-04-21T06:59:55Z")
Isn’t giving Costner a big budget remake of a big budget bomb just ASKING for trouble? Or are you figuring the fact that it’s already bombed will negate the Costner Suck-Bomb Factor? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/4 "2004-04-22T06:04:05Z")
Costner’s acting ability is under-appreciated and often maligned by Couch-Potato Bobblehead wanna-be movie reviewers… Costner reminds me alot of Steve Mcqueen,who when he was alive, was not well accepted by Film Critics… Costner would be ideal for Crockett! He’s already proved he’s a damn good Cowpoke in Tombstone and more Lately, Open Range.The transition to Front- iersman would be no challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/5 "2004-04-22T06:11:25Z")
Maybe right now just ISN’T the time to show movies about Americans (the viewing public will consider Texans to be Americans) NOT winning a battle. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/6 "2004-04-22T08:17:59Z")
Saw it. Liked it. Thought Billy Bob rocked it right down to the ground. Gotta say I strongly question the opinions of anyone who thinks Kevin Costner would be better than Billy Bob at anything. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/7 "2004-04-23T00:59:07Z")
> [@Mr. Roboto](#): > > Costner’s acting ability is under-appreciated and often maligned by > Couch-Potato Bobblehead wanna-be movie reviewers… > Costner reminds me alot of Steve Mcqueen,who when he was alive, > was not well accepted by Film Critics… > > Costner would be ideal for Crockett! He’s already proved he’s a damn good > Cowpoke in Tombstone and more Lately, Open Range.The transition to Front- > iersman would be no challenge. You know, there’s a certain irony in you trashing “couch potato bobblehead wannabe movie reviewers”, then putting the man in the wrong movie (he was in _Wyatt Earp_, which was ok, not _Tombstone_, which rocked the house). ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/8 "2004-04-23T01:42:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Roboto] Costner reminds me alot of Steve Mcqueen,who when he was alive, was not well accepted by Film Critics… [QUOTE] I’m willing to have Costner put to death to see if it increases his credibility with reviewers. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/9 "2004-04-23T03:16:56Z")
I saw _The Alamo_ the other day. Good movie; I thought Thornton nailed it as David (not Davy) Crockett. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/10 "2004-04-23T17:16:30Z")
Apparently, this thread has become all about Bashing Costner… As I was typing in his name to the real purpose of this thread and that is to re-cast the box office bomb,The Alamo,I knew there would be those of you who are his detractors. The same ilk who despise,Richard Gere. I thought it would be fun to re-cast it and maybe make Disney some $$$$$. The Central Figure at The Alamo is Travis,in the Original John Wayne Epic, Laurence Harvey was Brilliant and Carried much of the movie on his shoulders. In the Remake,Disney gambled and through shoddy casting,selected a relative newcomber to play the “Central Figure” of Travis… So the Movie is not Commercially successful… Youre Challenge is to re-cast the roles,to make it a Box Office hit… no ones done that yet… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/11 "2004-04-23T18:06:03Z")
There’s no stinker an all-dwarf cast can’t save. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/12 "2004-04-23T18:58:22Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > There’s no stinker an all-dwarf cast can’t save. Maybe they could re-do it with monkeys, like TBS used to do. That’d make a worthwhile movie! Or maybe they could get The Rock to star and give Santa Anna The People’s Elbow off the top of the Alamo… “If ya SMELLLLLLLLLLLLL what Davy Crockett…is cookin’.” ---
**Author:** ![Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Mott\_the\_Hoople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mott_the_Hoople)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recast-box-office-bomb-the-alamo/241178/13 "2004-04-26T16:38:29Z")
This would be a gret cast; ``` Travis.......Mickey Rourke Crockett.....Ron (Hellboy) Pearlman Bowie........ Tom Berenger Houston.... Jesse Ventura Sata Ana.. Vicente Fernandez ```