Recast Your Favorite (or Least-Favorite) Movies!

[Bobby Bear]

Andie still can't shake the feeling that she's too poor to date local rich boy Blaine. That's when her father and her friend Duckie set out to capture Blaine and bring his loins to Andie.

It's like a mirror universe Brat Pack version of The Loved Ones.

[Matt]

The Muppet Movie (1983)
Directed by: Walter Hill
Screenplay by: Walter Hill
Story by: Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl

Cast:

Robert Carradine as Kermit
Diane Lane as Miss Piggy
Rick Moranis as Gonzo
Eddie Murphy as Fozzie Bear
Richard Pryor as Rowlf
Willem Dafoe as Animal
Bootsy Collins as Dr. Teeth
The Blasters as The Electric Mayhem
Sam Donaldson as Sam the Eagle
Don Rickles as Waldorf
Milton Berle as Statler
Leonard Cimino as Professor Max Krassman
Nick Nolte as Doc Hopper
Jack Elam as Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Jackie Chan as Beaker

and

Richael Kiel as Sweetums


Synopsis:

In another place, another time....

There's a special subset in youth culture in 1983. We feared the Punks, we rode the New Wave and now we must bow down before the Muppets. Hellbent on invading Hollywood to force a production of their biographical feature debut, the evil Doc Hopper is waiting to co-opt their energy.

That's why it's up to Kermit and the gang to rock their brains out the back of their skulls.

SOUNDTRACK featuring:

Heart
Van Halen
DEVO
FEAR
The Misfits
and a galaxy of today's hot young musical stars.

That cast is simply amazing, especially your Statler and Waldorf.

[BillyG]

Sam Donaldson. Yes.

[Matt]

Willem Dafoe as Animal is genius.

George Roy Hill's 'Stargate'
Oliver Stone's 'The Naked Gun'

[Matt]

A more serious pairing:
Orson Welles - 'Goodfellas'
Martin Scorsese - ' Citizen Kane'

[Captain Russ]

David Mamet's REDS.

[Anderson]

David Mamet's REDS.

This intrigues me, but it's also too mellow.

[Captain Russ]

Maybe for the thread, but it sounds amazing.

[Matt]

Walt Disney's 'Aladdin', circa 1960

[Captain Russ]

WEB OF SPIDERMAN.

EDDIE MURPHY is PETER PARKER/SPIDER-MAN.
EDDIE MURPHY is AUNT MAY.
EDDIE MURPHY is UNCLE BEN.
EDDIE MURPHY is GWEN STACY.
EDDIE MURPHY is CAPTAIN STACY.
EDDIE MURPHY is KURT CONNORS.
and TERRY CREWES is FLASH THOMPSON.

MANHATTAN is played by EDDIE MURPHY.

[B_Metal]

No Arsenio? Bad form Balls, Bad form.

[FilmNerdJamie]

I'd imagine a Spider-Man movie circa 1983 directed by John Landis with Matthew Broderick as Spidey, Sam Fuller as Jameson, Vic Morrow as Uncle Ben and Jessica Tandy as Aunt May.

[Anderson]

I'd imagine a Spider-Man movie circa 1983 directed by John Landis with Matthew Broderick as Spidey, Sam Fuller as Jameson, Vic Morrow as Uncle Ben and Jessica Tandy as Aunt May.

Headless Uncle Ben.
Bold casting choice.

[Matt]

HIGHLANDER - 1940

Connor McCleod - Errol Flynn
Ramirez - Clark Gable
Kurgan - Victor Mature
Heather and Brenda (dual role) - Olivia DeHavilland
Moran - Humphrey Bogart

The plot is pretty much the same, except that Connor is drawn to Brenda due to her resemblance to Heather. Due to the fact that they can't show beheading, the means of death has been changed such that they must be stabbed through the heart in order to die.

This becomes a huge swashbuckling adventure, a film to rival Flynn's THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. The climactic sword fight on top of the Empire State Building becomes the stuff of legend.

Directed.by Michael Curtis.

[Anderson]

Walt Disney's 'Aladdin', circa 1960

Aladdin (1960)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Screenplay: Earl Fenton

A Brief History:

Originally planned as an animated feature, Disney had to scrap the animation plans after Sleeping Beauty's production time ran into the prep work on 101 Dalmatians.

Therefore, Disney personally selected Fleischer to helm a live-action version that would be staged in the heart of the New Mexico desert. That's right, kids. Big Hollywood production in White Sands, NM! Just 45 miles away from US testing sites.

Since Disney was hellbent on rushing this production into theaters by the Summer of '60. The studio had to ditch their usual stable of actors and venture outside of the Mouse House. This led them to the mean streets of Stella Adler's Acting School. The result would later impress critics, but ultimately pushed the production further away from the intended family audiences.

PLOT:

A young thief in Arabia learns the secrets of the Djinn. Using his newfound supernatural powers, the thief Aladdin leads an attack on the Arabian aristocracy.

CAST:

Dennis Hopper as Aladdin
Paul Lynde as Genie
Sophia Loren as Jasmine
James Mason as Jafar
Sim-Sim the Wonder Chimp as Abu
Senor Coco as Iago