Recast your favorite movies

I was sort of holding out on this one but if a movie like Shame is fair game then I may as well.

Thelma & Louise (2012)

Amy Adams - Thelma Dickinson

Julianne Moore - Louise Sawyer

Garret Hedlund - J.D.

Shea Whigham - Det. Hal Slocumb

Jon Bernthal - Jimmy

Mad Max: Fury Road (1997)

Max Rockatansky: Sean Bean

Furiosa: Linda Hamilton

Nux: Ewan McGregor

Immortan Joe: Gene Hackman, James Earl Jones (voice)

Slit: Edward Burns

Rictus Erectus: Brian Steele

Splendid: Rebecca Romijn

Capable: Kimberley Williams

Toast the Knowing: Jada Pinkett Smith

The Dag: Chloe Sevigny

Cheedo the Fragile: Natalie Portman

Corpus Colossus: Warwick Davis

Valkyrie: Madeleine Stowe

Keeper of the Seeds: Jean Simmons

Only Hugh Keays-Byrne can play Immortan Joe. He's a staple in the franchise.

And I got to ask… why not Mel as Max. In '94 he still had his credibility.

Wouldn't have been the correct age for Joe. In 1997 he wouldn't have hit 50 yet.

How did you like my X-Men: First Class trilogy casts?

Since when is being younger a bad thing? Miller planned the movie since after Thunderdome I can only assume he had Byrne and Gibson in mind.

I also don't like First Class so my input on those probably wouldn't be constructive.

I guess I meant by the First Class Trilogy was X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and X-Men: Apocalypse.

Avatar (2000)

Jake Sully: Josh Brolin

Neytiri: Catherine Zeta-Jones

Colonel Miles Quartrich: Ed Harris

Dr. Grace Augustine: Jane Fonda

Trudy Chacon: Salma Hayek

Parker Selfridge: Alan Cumming

Mo'at: Alfre Woodard

Eytukan: Russell Means

Dr. Norm Spellman: Rhys Ifans

Tsu'tey: Eric Schweig

I thought it would be interesting to see Mouth to Mouth with Ellen Paige recast with Maisie Williams. I mean, Ellen Paige was superb in it, but I'd love to see how that movie would have turned with Maisie Williams.

Or Hard Candy. I could see Maisie Williams playing that character.

That's interesting – what didn't you like about it?

Trainspotting (2016)

Mark Renton: Jaime Bell

Spud: Matthew Lewis

Sick Boy: Iwan Rheon

Begbie: Toby Kebbell

Tommy: Rupert Grint

Diana: Maisie Williams

Fan cast for The Tale of Beren and Luthien (2016)

Director: Michael Mann

Producer: Steven Spielberg

Music: John Williams

Budget: $80 million

Beren: Richard Madden

Luthien: Alicia Vikander

Finrod: Nico Evers-Swindell

Sauron: Adam Driver

Thingol: Paul Bettany

Melian: Eva Green

Celegorm: Joe Dempsie

Curufin: Iwan Rheon

Huan: Idris Elba

Daeron: Alfie Allen

Celebrimbor: Asa Butterfield

Barahir: Jason Clarke

Nice! I'm a massive Silmarillion fan.

Luthien would have to be the most beautiful actress that could be found, Vikander does fit though. What about kit Harrington for Beren.

Micheal Mann is a bit past it unfortunately, my all time fav Director too.

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This is just the first one.

Also forgot the screenwriter: Andrew Davies.

The Children of Hurin (2016)

Director: Alejandro G. Inarritu

Producer: Steven Spielberg

Music: John Williams

Screenwriter: Andrew Davies

Budget: $80 million

Turin: Liam Hemsworth

Nienor: Elizabeth Debicki

Brandir: Iain de Caestecker

Glaurung: Javier Bardem

Beleg: J.J. Feild

Gwindor: Charlie Cox

Finduilas: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Orodreth: Andrew Lincoln

Androg: Sharlto Copley

Mim: Timothy Spall

Hurin: Nick Blood

Morwen: Cobie Smulders

Saeros: Burn Gorman

Brodda: Arnold Vosloo

Sador Labadal: Brandon Gleeson

You want Iñarritu directing a Tolkein adaptation? He seems too intense for it. You need a sense of levity that always seems lost on him.

I never took to the X-Men movies (aside from DoFP) but First Class in particular felt really forced upon and light in comparison to the thematic weight of the previous ones.

Have you read The Children of Hurin? I've read it, and it's pretty intense. Among other things, we have hopeless battles, guys getting stripped naked and chased until they run off cliffs, accidental murders and accidental incest.

So did you like my Days of Future Past casting?

No, I haven't. That all sounds pretty intense so I guess it would work…

It's good. I like mine more