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If they remade Police Academy, Walter from Fringe would make a good Commandant Lassard.

Re-cast movies or their remakes, or just complain about stupid choices - like having the same actor play the Human Torch and Captain America.

There has been much talk of a new Fletch movie. Could anyone do the character justice?

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Id love to see a new Cannonball Run, with each car being comedy teams from more recent years.

Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller

The Mighty Boosh guys.

A couple Super Troopers.

The Wayans Brothers.

Shia LeBouf and Bumblebee

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Wilfredo Arandela says :

Não é esse com o ovo whisk, o capacete do vôo, o aipo molhado e o madonna caído com os peitos grandes é ele?

BANG!

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TheBoost said:

Id love to see a new Cannonball Run, with each car being comedy teams from more recent years.

That could be good. I always felt Rat Race was a spiritual successor to Cannonball, but even that is over ten years old now.

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DRACULA: TheBoost's fantasy cast for 2012

 

Count Dracula: Jonathon Rhys Myers (The Tudors)
 A good mix of menace and sex appeal. In fact, so much sex appeal that the film wont have to waste any time on the "Dracula is sexy" trope all other adaptations have done. Just his presense will cover that, and he can go about being evil.

Jonathon Harker: Garrett Hedlund (Tron 2)
 A real leading man, action hero type. This heightens his character's brokenness after his escape from the castle.

Mina Murray: Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey)
 Carmichale, from "Downton Abbey" is elegant, lovely, and has a great smile that hints at layers beneath her proper veneer, without having to slap you in the face with it like the talentless Winona Rider.

Abraham Van Helsing: Rutger Hauer
 The man was born for it. He's even Dutch... I think. Didn't bother to look it up.

Mr. Renfield: Christopher Eccelston (Doctor Who)
 I think Eccelston's intensity and energy could make Renfield scary, not just funny, and be contrasted strongly with his gentleness later in the tale.

Lucy Westenra: Erica Durance (Smallville)
 Lucy needs to be two things: instantly loveable and later, scary sexy. I think TV's Lois Lane, with her adorable dimples, could pull it off nicely.

The Suitors: With so many characters it's important to make sure each is very distinct in appearance and manners. That guided my choices.

Arthur Holmwood/Lord Godalming: Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian)
 Pretty to the point of being almost girly, Barnes contrasts nicely with Harker and we can see why Lucy picks him.
Dr. Seward: Matt Smith (Doctor Who)
 A Doctor playing a Doctor, Smith is charismatic and charming, while not being good looking.
Quincy Morris: Jason Segel (The Muppets)
 While Segal has very little serious drama to his credit, I think he'd be a natural for the rangy Texan. And he's huge, which is nice.

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I could do this all day, here are a few:

Robert Mitchum as Phillip Marlowe in any Chandler adaptation circa late 40's to mid 1950's directed by either Nicholas Ray or Robert Aldrich.

Kubrick's Napoleon with Jack. I don't know why the idea of Nicholson as Napoleon just seemed so insanely right...kinda...or heck I'd see this whoever was in the lead.

And one of my own...

Let's get a coffee (AKA The Ultimate Guy Movie, AKA The Man Who Would Be King II): Michael Caine and Sean Connery get together and have a cup of coffee. Then they run into Peter O'Toole. Chaos ensues as they hit the town. Explosions, fights, murders, brawls, car chases, a bit of gratuitous sex and everything in between. Cameos by: David Bowie, Pete Townshend, Albert Finney, Kevin Spacey, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, Al Pacino, Chow Yun-fat, Roger Moore and many more.

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