Recast your favorite movies

Grosse Pointe Blank made me a fan, maybe because he was centre stage. I'd seen Con Air and also The Grifters but never really bought into him.

Its not my favourite movie.however i would recast michelle williams in my last days with marilyn with Britney Spears- first of all they looked SO much alike,both face and figure,they both also had that naive little girl lost attitude,aswell as a natural sex appeal.there was no overly dramatic scenes either that britney with her limited acting experience couldnt have pulled off. it would have to have been a few years earlier though.
i like michelle williams but she was a horrid choice.

The Nice Guys (1990)

Enforcer Jackson Healy: Harrison Ford

Private Detective Holland March: Bruce Willis or Kevin Costner

Holly March: Drew Barrymore

John Boy: Daniel Day-Lewis

Amelia Kutner: Molly Ringwald

Older Guy: James Earl Jones

Judith Kutner: Jean Simmons

Blue Face: Jim Carrey

Tally: Angela Bassett

Trying to think up a British one, c. 2009.

Once Upon a Time in the West (2016)

as Jill McBain: Bérénice Marlohe

as Harmonica: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

as Cheyenne: Josh Brolin

as Frank: Kevin Costner

with Powers Boothe as Morton

and Graham McTavisn as Brett McBain

Reservoir Dogs (2016)

as Mr. White: Josh Brolin

as Mr. Orange: Aaron Paul

as Mr. Blonde: Jon Bernthal

as Mr. Pink: Scoot McNairy

as Mr. Blue: John Hawkes

as Mr. Brown: ??? ???

as Nice Guy Eddie: Matt L. Jones

as Joe Cabot: John Doman

Alien (2013)

as Dallas: Joel Edgerton

as Ripley: Mary Elizabeth Winstead

as Kane: Domhnall Gleeson

as Parker: Chad Coleman

as Brett: Scoot McNairy

as Lambert: Kristen Connolly

as Ash: Jared Harris

Raiders of the Lost Ark (2014)

as Indiana Jones: Joel Edgerton

as Marion Ravenwood: Rose Byrne

as Reneé Belloq: Mathieu Amalric

as Arnold Toht: Jared Harris

as Sallah: Sayed Badreya

as Marcus Brody: Hugh Bonneville

as Katanga: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

British The Nice Guys (2009)

Enforcer Jackson Healy: Ray Winstone

Private Detective Holland March: Ewan McGregor

Holly March: Lucy Boynton

John Boy: Cillian Murphy

Amelia Kutner: Anna Popplewell

Older Guy: George Harris

Judith Kutner: Jenny Agutter

Blue Face: Toby Kebbell

Tally: Naomie Harris

I like the sound of some of these. I'm not that familiar with Joel Edgerton, only from The Thing, but he's good. Rose Byrne seems a bit bland and not feisty enough for Marion. Mathieu Amalric's good but I could just as easily see him as Toht actually and Harris as Belloq.

You like my castings for The Nice Guys?

No frame of reference. Some good actors there though.

I admit Byrne is kind of unimaginative but I think she could pull it off. She's a good enough actress. (and I think she sort of looks like Karen Allen, so there's that.)

I did think of Harris as Belloq but for some reason I felt like casting a French actor in the role. I guess that means I should have gone with a German actor as Toht but whatever.

Seemed to me the story was very L.A./American centric. The air pollution, the 70s counter establishment protests, etc.

It's a good cast but the switch up seems unnecessary.

You see the one for 1990 with Harrison Ford as Healy?

X-Men (1983)

Charles Xavier/Professor X: Richard Attenborough

Logan/Wolverine: Liam Neeson

Erik Lensherr/Magneto: Christopher Lee

Scott Summers/Cyclops: Michael Biehn

Jean Grey: Rene Russo

Ororo Munroe/Storm: Angela Bassett

Toad: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Victor Creed/Sabretooth: Sven-ole Thorsen

Marie/Rogue: Diane Lane

Bobby Drake/Iceman: Rob Lowe

John Allerdyce/Pyro: Charlie Sheen

Senator Robert Kelly: Robert Vaughn

I don't know who to cast for Mystique.

These all sound good – I'm not sure about their ages in comparison to the actors in the real film. I think Michael Biehn as Cyclops is the best idea and I also quite like Diane Lane for Rogue. Christopher Lee feels right for Magneto as well – apparently Bryan Singer considered Terence Stamp which I really like the idea of.

Well, to give an example, James Marsden was 25 when he played Cyclops in the first X-men film.

How about…

X-Men: Days of Future Past (1984)

starring

Mel Gibson as Wolverine

Paul McGann as Young Charles Xavier

Jeremy Irons as Young Erik Lehnsherr

Nastassja Kinski as Mystique

Kyle MacLachlan as Hank McCoy

Donald Sutherland as Bolivar Trask*

Michael Biehn as Maj. William Striker

featuring

Diane Lane as Rogue (good one)

Keith David as Bishop

Joan Chen as Blink

with John Gielgud as Old Charles Xavier

and Laurence Olivier as Old Erik Lehnsherr

Only change would be an older actor for young Charles, perhaps Timothy Dalton?

The Graduate:

Jesse Eisenberg as Ben Braddock
Amy Poehler as Mrs. Robinson
Hailee Steinfeld as Elaine Robinson
George Clooney as Mr. Braddock
Tilda Swinton as Mrs. Braddock
(were he still living) Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Mr. Robinson
Robert De Niro as Mr. McCleery (the dorm guy)