# Recasting a Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015 "2012-05-15T20:12:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/1 "2012-05-15T20:12:39Z")
Some - ok many - of you think Andie MacDowell was awful in '3 Weddings and a Funeral". Who would you cast in the part? Other recastings you’d like to suggest? I always thought Doris Day should have played the female lead in “South Pacific”. Not sure who I would replace Natalie Wood with in “West Side Story”. But somebody else, please. Peter Dinklage would have made a great Frodo (though I doubt he would have taken the part; Elijah Wood did the best he could with the material he was given) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/2 "2012-05-16T01:42:39Z")
I would have re-titled the movie as _Four Weddings and a Funeral_. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/3 "2012-05-16T02:01:01Z")
[Nick Nolte as Han Solo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MmLo91A7HI) ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/4 "2012-05-16T02:08:23Z")
Supposedly Sean Connery was offered Morpheus in The Matrix. That would have been a hoot. Just run through the rabbit hole speech in your head with a Connery accent. Especially when you picture first choice Will Smith in place of Keanu. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/5 "2012-05-16T02:13:18Z")
Animatronic Kittens for all the characters in The Godfather. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/6 "2012-05-16T02:15:45Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > Some - ok many - of you think Andie MacDowell was awful in '3 Weddings and a Funeral". Who would you cast in the part? That part was \*made \*for Julia Roberts (not meant literally, BTW). As was Android McDull’s role in Green Card. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/7 "2012-05-16T02:22:39Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Animatronic Kittens for all the characters in The Godfather. Leave the gun, take the catnip. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/8 "2012-05-16T02:30:36Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > Not sure who I would replace Natalie Wood with in “West Side Story”. But somebody else, please. Imagine WSS with both Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/9 "2012-05-16T02:35:06Z")
Julian Sands as Lestate in Interview with a Vampire and Queen of the Damned. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/10 "2012-05-16T02:46:51Z")
Kevin Costner’s post-apocolyptic opus, _The Postman_, would have been better if the title character was played by [John Ratzenberger](http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_370_tiny-changes-that-would-have-saved-terrible-movies_p21/). ---
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/11 "2012-05-16T03:31:08Z")
I suggest that all Mel Gibson’s scenes in all movies should be re-shot with Kevin Costner. I always felt they were kind of interchangeable. Similarly bland, forgettable actors, but (as far as I know) Costner isn’t a crazed, bigoted a-hole. Also, he could probably use the work. (didn’t notice that the previous post to this was also about Costner until I hit submit. Spooky.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/12 "2012-05-16T03:56:09Z")
If we can add TV, I’d cast Bruce Lee as Caine in _Kung Fu._ (He really **wanted** that part.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/13 "2012-05-16T04:01:13Z")
> [@Mikeisskeptical](#): > > I suggest that all Mel Gibson’s scenes in all movies should be re-shot with Kevin Costner. I always felt they were kind of interchangeable. Similarly bland, forgettable actors, but (as far as I know) Costner isn’t a crazed, bigoted a-hole. Also, he could probably use the work. (didn’t notice that the previous post to this was also about Costner until I hit submit. Spooky.) LISA SIMPSON: _sigh_ . . . Poor Kevin Costner . . . He tries so hard . . . ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/14 "2012-05-16T06:08:53Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > … Peter Dinklage would have made a great Frodo (though I doubt he would have taken the part; Elijah Wood did the best he could with the material he was given) Since Alan Ladd was notoriously short of stature, perhaps Dinklage could be persuaded to be in on a remake of _Shane_. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/15 "2012-05-16T11:40:01Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > Peter Dinklage would have made a great Frodo Just..no. Leaving aside the physical proportionality, Dinklage just is not going to be convincing as an innocent, which Frodo essentially is. Dinklage does great at serious & silent, and great at comedy. I’d love to see him do a comedy film as the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/16 "2012-05-16T11:45:01Z")
I would like to see\* Dirty Harry \*with Frank Sinatra in the role as originally planned. I’d also like to see just about every other non-Western Clint Eastwood ever made with[Tim Thomerson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859772/) in the lead role. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/17 "2012-05-16T22:32:20Z")
Although Tim Curry was great, I’d love to see Hugh Laurie as Frank N. Furter in _Rocky Horror_. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/18 "2012-05-16T22:37:29Z")
In **Highlander** , replace frenchman Christopher Lambert with Tommy Flanagan. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/19 "2012-05-16T23:34:16Z")
Half the Sidney Poitier movies fifty years ago - how about letting some other Black guys act, too? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015/20 "2012-05-17T03:41:18Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Kevin Costner’s post-apocolyptic opus, _The Postman_, would have been better if the title character was played by [John Ratzenberger](http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_370_tiny-changes-that-would-have-saved-terrible-movies_p21/). There was a point when Tom Hanks was interested in playing the role. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recasting-a-movie/622015.md?page=2)