# You remake the movie.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 20, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-remake-the-movie/246072 "2004-05-20T00:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-remake-the-movie/246072/1 "2004-05-20T00:30:00Z")

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Today, for no reason whatsoever, I thought that Owen Wilson would be a good actor to play Billy (Dennis Hopper) in Easy Rider. Christian Slater, whose whole career has been an extended Jack Nicholson impersonation, could play George Hansen. J Lo could play Toni Basil’s role and Kate Hudson could be Carrie Snodgrass.

I was stuck for Wyatt. Huge Jackman? Jim Carrey (the pretentious Jim not the retarded Jim). Colin Farrel-- he’d be good. But then I thought I could have John Waters direct. Farrel would be out and Crispin Glover is in.

The premise of a hippie wandering around and bumping up against the conservative south would work today. Only not a hippie and not necessarily the South-- an atheist gay man in the Bible Belt could work.

What would you do with an old movie?

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**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-remake-the-movie/246072/2 "2004-05-20T03:27:19Z")

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I have always had this fond idea that David Duchovny would be perfect to play the Will Kane role in _High Noon_. Too bad it was already remade in 2000 with Tom Skerritt.