I was just thinking about the casting choice of Angelina Jolie for Lara Croft
(wondering why on earth they didn’t pick Rhona Mitra who was born to play
that
part) when I let my mind wonder. Eventually I had pictured Woody Alen playing the
Terminator. So there I had the idea for this thread.
Recast well known movies with unlikely actors/actresses.
To get you started, recast the following…
Spiderman.
Oceans Eleven.
Lord of the Rings (the full trilogy)
Let’s see, how 'bout we cast LOTR with that dorky kid from Goonies, the wide-eyed waif from The Good Son and Steven Tyler’s slutty daughter from his music videos?
C’mon, it sounded pretty unlikely at the time!
The Moderator Speaketh: Lest there be any doubt: I’ve OK’d this thread. Some forums disapprove of “game” threads, but I think a few such are fun and fine.
We’re having some discussion amongst the Mods on what should be allowed and what shouldn’t and why, but this looks like fun to me, so go with it.
Like, John Goodman as Peter Parker in Spider-Man III, that what you mean?
That’s exactly what I mean!
Thanks for oking the thread btw 
Please, Abe Vigoda would make a much better Spider Man than John Goodman.
For LOTR, I’d like to suggest Shaq and Kobe as Sam and Frodo, with Yao as Gollum.
That’s all I’ve got for now.
Rhett Butler . . . Jimmy Durante
Scarlett O’Hara . . . Martha Raye
Melanie Wilkes . . . Fanny Brice
Ashley Wilkes . . . Billy Barty
Mammy . . . Marlene Dietrich
. . . Now, that I’d actually like to see!
LORD OF THE RINGS: Fellowship of the I Love the 80s
Frodo- Emmanuel Lewis
Samwise- Gary Coleman
Merry- Corey Haim
Pippin - Corey Feldman
Bilbo- Billy Crystal
Gandalf- George Carlin
Boromir- Patrick Swayze
Arwen- Jennifer Grey
Elrond- Joel Grey
Legolas- Greg Evigan
Aragorn- Eric Estrada
Gimli- Danny Devito
Grimbold- Christopher Lloyd
Sarumon- Cheech Marin
Sauron- Tommy Chong
Ocean’s 11 would be interesting if recast with the cast of Sanford & Son.
Danny Ocean = Redd Foxx
Sam Harmon= Whitman Mayo
Josh Howard = Demond Wilson
Jimmy Foster = Don “Bubba” Bexley
Beatrice Ocean= LaWanda Page
Casino Owner = Franky “Yeeessss?” Nelson
Meanwhile, Star Wars would be interesting recast with the cast of Dukes of Hazard (including the Waylon Jennings narration- “Meanwhile, ol’ Boss Vader and Grand Boss Tarkin was still back ter the Death Star, and y’all ain’t gwine b’lieve what they was gettin’ up to…”). Replace car chase with Tie Fighter/X Wing chases and you’re home free.
Titanic would have been interesting as a Rat Pack movie and directed by Irwin Allen. For added fun, a scientist has smuggled some presumed extinct dinosaurs on board who reak havoc as the ship sinks.
Jack (the Dicaprio role): Dean Martin
Rose: Shirley MacLaine
Cal: Frank Sinatra
Old Rose: Agnes Moorehead
Unsinkable Molly Brown: Angie Dickinson
Lovett (Bill Paxton character): Sammy Davis Jr.
Sample dialogue:
Jack, upon entering the ship’s bar and finding it crawling with dinosaurs, hoists his martini and cigarette and asks “How’d all these lizards get in my dressing room?”
Cal to Rose: “Forget this loser goombah, bimbo! You’re shacked up with me now, capece?”
Old Rose: And that’s the way the ship sank, killing 1100 people…
Sammy: Yeah, babe, that’s a nice story… someone oughtta make a movie… but I got a setting that needs a stone and you’re not answering the question… where’s the rock?
Another interesting crossover cast possibility: Schindler’s List with the cast of Green Acres. Either Pat “Mr. Haney” Buttram could be Goeth, Eddie Albert would be Schindler (who when he starts to say “I could have done more” can’t be heard due to the fife music) and Eva & Zsa Zsa Gabor could be Mrs. Schindler and mistress, or else Liam Neeson could play Oliver Douglas, Ben Kingsley could be a very dour Sam Drucker and Ralph Fiennes a particularly sinister Ebb.
DRIVIN’ MISS DAISY is meanwhile recast as a vehicle for Dave Chapelle and Paris Hilton. “Piggledy Wiggledy my ass, biatch… we ain’t goin’ near a store less there’s one next door to the titty bar.” Chapelle also plays Booley.
STEEL MAGNOLIAS starring the cast of Monty Python in drag with Eddie Izzard as Shelby. John Cleese, of course, is M’lynn.
From the makers of Scooby Doo & Garfield: The Yearling starring Tom Cruise as the Everglades farmer, Roseanne Barr as his wife, Michael J. Anderson as their son and zany funnyman Eddie Murphy as the voice of the computer animated fawn.
Quentin Tarantino’s Mary Poppins stars Uma Thurman as everybody’s favorite ass-kicking nanny, the Olsen twins as the kids whose eating disorders and paparazzi problem she must fix, and Samuel Jackson as the Cockney song and dance man who cleans the soot from her chimney.
How about ** ‘Fargo’ ** with Paris Hilton as Marge Gunderson & Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson as Steve Buscemi & Peter Stormare - and Jerry Lundegard as Ben Affleck?
Lame and useless, not intented as post padding, though, but feel free to delete.
“The Ring’s not here, man.”
You just reminded me—I used to work at amagazine where one of the editors did a great Jimmy Stewart, and I do a dead-on Garbo. We used to do Green Acres starring the two of them.
Oliver: “Waall, waall, umm, Lisa, the, umm, Monroe Brothers are here to, ummm, fix the door . . .”
Lisa: “Ay cannot face them! And the peeg—eet depresses me . . .”
Wayne Brady as Batman
Drew Carey as Robin
Bea Arthur in a duo role as Batgirl and Catwoman
The Golden Girls as Charlie’s Angels, with Sophia as Bosley?
I was going to suggest Ross Perot as Catwoman.
A friend of mine (and fellow Doper) and I once postulated remaking Casablanca with Richard Gere (Rick) and Whoopie Goldberg (Ilsa).
Capt. Renault would be played by Drew Carey, who keeps striking out with all the beautiful women who come to him for letters of transit.
Maybe Gilbert Gottfried as Ugarte? Who better to scream, “Rick, hide me!”
(Probably) true example. In one of his books (likely “Hope and Glory” or “Adventures in the Screen Trade”), William Goldman tells of the search for the perfect actress to play Buttercup in The Princess Bride. As anyone who has read the book knows, Buttercup is at one point the most beautiful girl in the world (and never much lower than 20th). Obviously, they’re having trouble casting the ideal ethereal beauty.
One day, an agent calls up and suggests....Whoopie Goldberg.
But if you want some unlikely casting, how about Joe Pesci as Apollo Creed in the first Rocky movie?
“Peter Lorre is Mame!”
With Gerard Depardieu as Vera Charles.
“Veal alvays be boo-sum buddies”
“Freends, zeesters and pals”
Jim Carrey as Jesus in Passion of the Christ
Paris Hilton & Nicole Ritchey in The Whales of August
The cast of Seinfeld in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Elaine as Maggie, Jerry as Brick, Michael Richards as Gooper and Jerry Stiller & Estelle Harris as Big Daddy & Big Mama).
Mel Gibson in Torch Song Trilogy