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[David H.]

This one's not my idea but I thought you guys may like it.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (1973)

Al Pacino as Llewyn Davis

Diane Keaton as Jean

Keith Carradine as Jim

Orson Welles as Roland Turner

Harrison Ford as Johnny Five

James Taylor as Troy Nelson

and Dustin Hoffman as Al Cody

 

[Eddie Dean]

Drive (1945)

Burt Lancaster - Driver

Gene Tierney - Irene

Walter Huston - Shannon

Victor Mature - Standard

Lana Turner - Blance

Wallace Beery - Nino

and in his final role, W.C. Fields as Bernie Rose

 

[gwynplaine]

^ Good one. (Especially Walter Huston as Shannon)

Anyone of these three guys might have been interesting as Bernie Rose too:

And maybe also Cesar Romero would have been good as Standard:

 

[gwynplaine]

Suicide Squad (1980)
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Directed by Walter Hill


Deadshot - Eddie Murphy

Harley Quinn - Diane Lane

The Joker - David Patrick Kelly

Rick Flagg - Nick Nolte

Enchantress - deborah van valkenburgh

Amanda Waller - Pam Grier

 

[David H.]

Should have gone with an all comedy cast. Bill Murray cameos as Batman!

 

[gwynplaine]

I was saving him for my Batman v Superman

 

[Eddie Dean]

lol

 

[Tg11]

Pulp Fiction (1975)

Vincent Vega- Harvey Keitel
Jules Winnfield- Fred Williamson
Mia Wallace- Jaclyn Smith
Butch Coolidge- Sylvester Stallone
Pumpkin- Mick Jagger
Honey Bunny- Susan Sarandon
Marsellus Wallace- Jim Brown
Lance- Mark Hamill
Jody- Barbara Niven
Fabienne- Catherine Deneuve
The Wolf- Marlon Brando
Captain Koons- Paul Newman

 

[David H.]

X-Men: Days of Future Past (1984)

Mel Gibson as Wolverine

Nastassja Kinski as Mystique

Paul McGann as Charles Xavier

Jeremy Irons as Erik Lehnsherr

Kyle McLachlan as Hank McCoy

Jeff Goldblum as Bolivar Trask (not 100% on this one)

Michael Biehn as Maj. William Striker

Joan Chen as Blink

Keith David as Bishop

with John Gielgud as Professor X

and Laurence Olivier as Magneto

Directed by Richard Donner

 

[Tg11]

Pulp Fiction (1965)

Vincent Vega- Marlon Brando
Jules Winnfield- Sidney Poitier
Mia Wallace- Ellen Burstyn
Butch Coolidge- Clint Eastwood
Marsellus Wallace- Harry Belafonte
The Wolf- Paul Newman
Captain Koons- Lee Marvin
Pumpkin- Michael Caine
Honey Bunny- Shirley Maclaine
Fabienne- Brigitte Bardot
Lance- Jon Voight
Jody- Donna Mills

 

[Drizzle]

The Hateful Eight (1989)

Morgan Freeman as Major Marquis Warren

Sam Elliott as John "The Hangman" Ruth

Jessica Lange as Daisy Domergue

Michael Biehn as Sheriff Chris Mannix

Alan Rickman as Oswaldo Mobray

Edward James Olmos as Bob "The Mexican"

Harvey Keitel as Joe Gage

Eli Wallach as General Sandy Smithers

Tom Waits as O.B.

and Patrick Swayze as Jody

 

[Panthro]

Die Hard in the late 1940s/early 1950s -

John McClane - Robert Mitchum

Hans Gruber - Claude Rains

Holly Gennero-McClane - Jane Russell

Karl - Sterling Hayden

Sgt. Al Powell - Woody Strode

Ellis - Cameron Mitchell

Dwayne T. Robinson - Karl Malden

Argyle the limo driver - some random extra



The Train remade in the 1980s, directed by Steven Spielberg (for the more recent 2000s version see a previous post in the "Recast Untouchable Screen Classics" thread) -

Paul Labiche - Harrison Ford

Colonel Von Waldheim - Paul Freeman

Christine - Genevieve Bujold

Herren - Wolf Kahler

Papa Boule - Burt Lancaster doing a cameo shout out from the original

Various Nazi troops & officers - Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Clancy Brown, Dolph Lundgren, and of course Pat Roach

 

[Eddie Dean]

Also had a Hateful Eight in mind...

The Hateful Eight (1973)
Dir. Robert Aldrich

Sidney Poitier - Major Marquis Warren

Charles Bronson - John "The Hangman" Ruth

Angie Dickinson - Daisy Domergue

Jeff Bridges - Chris Mannix

Eli Wallach - Senor Bob

Richard Harris - Oswaldo Mobray

Ben Johnson - Joe Gage

Joseph Cotten - General Sandy Smithers

Spoiler

Warren Beatty - Jody

 

[gwynplaine]

The Revenant (1972)
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Hugh Glass - Robert Redford

John Fitzgerald - Charles Bronson

Jim Bridger - Randy Quaid

Andrew Henry - Richard Harris

Elk Dog - Will Sampson

 

[Eddie Dean]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (1977)
Directed by George Lucas

Brooke Adams as Rey

introducing Denzel Washington as Finn

Al Pacino as Poe Dameron

Robert Mitchum as Han Solo

Lauren Bacall as General Organa

Brad Dourif as Kylo Ren

John Hurt as General Hux

Sybil Danning as Captain Phasma

 

[Eddie Dean]

with Donald Pleasence as Supreme Leader Snoke

Eartha Kitt as Maz Kanata

John Huston as Lor San Tekka

Spoiler

and Burt Lancaster as Luke Skywalker

 

[Sawyer]

lawd

 

[Panthro]

I dig that Force Awakens cast Eddie_Dean


Highlander circa 1930s-1940s -

Connor MacLeod - Errol Flynn

Heather MacLeod - Olivia De Havilland

Brenda J. Wyatt - Katharine Hepburn

Rachel Ellenstein - Una O'Connor

Lt. Frank Moran - Eugene Pallette

Detective Walter Bedsoe - Herbert Mundin

Angus MacLeod - Alan Hale Sr.

Dugal MacLeod - Patric Knowles


With John Wayne playing against type as the Kurgan


And Basil Rathbone as Juan Ramirez

 

[gwynplaine]

Spectre (1960)
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James Bond - Richard Burton

Madeleine Swann - Brigitte Bardot

Oberhauser - Hardy Kruger

Lucia Sciarra - Sophia Loren

Mr. Hinx - Richard Kiel

Miss Moneypenny - Dorothy Dandridge

M - Dirk Bogarde

Q - Terence Stamp

 

[Schlosser85]

I dig Redford as Glass and Bronson as Fitzgerald in that Revenant cast.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Richard Harris already played Hugh Glass in "Man in the Wilderness", haha.

 

[gwynplaine]

Mad Max: Fury Road (1973)
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Max Rockatansky - Charles Bronson

Imperator Furiosa - Angie Dickinson

Nux - Ron Howard

Immortan Joe - Joe Spinell

Splendid - Britt Ekland

 

[Panthro]

Alternate Star Wars classic trilogy cast circa 1977-1983 -


Luke Skywalker - LeVar Burton

Han Solo - Richard Roundtree or Carl Weathers

Princess Leia Organa - Debbie Morgan

Darth Vader - Ken Foree (suit actor)

Voice of Darth Vader - Charlton Heston

Obi-Wan Kenobi - Woody Strode

Emperor Palpatine - Sidney Poitier

C-3P0 - Richard Pryor or Bill Cosby

Lando Calrissian - Tom Selleck

Uncle Owen - Moses Gunn

Aunt Beru - Eartha Kitt

Biggs Darklighter - Cleavon Little

Wedge Antilles - George Harris

And Brock Peters as Anakin Skywalker

 

[Eddie Dean]

I'd go with Fred Williamson as Han. Maybe Scatman Crothers as the voice of Yoda, lol.

 

[David H.]

Something you guys might like, re-imagined film posters by Peter Stults. (https://www.behance.net/peterstults)