# Worst possible remake casting: the RPG

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 12, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-remake-casting-the-rpg/244835 "2004-05-12T19:07:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-remake-casting-the-rpg/244835/41 "2004-05-14T17:20:06Z")

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Just make the sequal to Super Mario Brothers, keep Bob Hoskins, add elements from the film fast and furious and calll it Super Mario Carts.

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**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-remake-casting-the-rpg/244835/42 "2004-05-14T21:06:38Z")

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**My Dinner With Andre** starring Keanu Reeves and Pauly Shore. C3PO could be the waiter.

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**Author:** ![Riqay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Riqay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riqay)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-remake-casting-the-rpg/244835/43 "2004-05-14T21:15:58Z")

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_The Thin Man_ movies, with Tom Green as Nick Charles, Mariah Carey as Nora Charles, and Bobcat Goldthwait voicing a computer-animated Asta.

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**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:** [May 15, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-remake-casting-the-rpg/244835/44 "2004-05-15T03:28:26Z")

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The Magnificent Seven Redux, starring Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey … and …  
wait for it …  
wait for it …

Jim Carrey!

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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:** [May 16, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-remake-casting-the-rpg/244835/45 "2004-05-16T20:31:32Z")

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**Deliverance** starring the cast of _Everybody Loves Raymond_ with Sir Peter O’Toole, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Anthony Hopkins as the hillbillies.

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-remake-casting-the-rpg/244835/46 "2004-05-16T21:30:12Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> **The Passion of the Christ** … starring Rip Taylor! They hammer him onto the cross and confetti starts pouring out of the wounds…

How about **The Passion of the Christ** …starring Russel Crowe! They come to arrest him and he beats them all up. Then he travels around with his best friend Tugger shouting “OH MY GOD IT’S JESUS CHRIST!” before beating the crap out of innocent people.

I’d watch that.

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