You will enjoy these recast alt-fake-history movie posters: http://www.barnorama.com/movies-from-an-alternate-universe/
I'm torn between admiration of the art and hatred of some of his choices (I'd watch the shit out of that Fifth Element, but WTF dude Spencer Tracy is obviously the editor of the Daily Planet because Yul Brynner was BORN to play Luthor!)
Not all movies, some kids' books and things, but wow, there's some movies I'd watch the crap out of, and some great posters, and yeah, go look. http://hartter.blogspot.com/2009/11/misc.html
Both of these sites are things of beauty and joys forever. (Jodorowsky directing a Corum movie makes almost too much sense, although I'd choose Boorman for the Connery Fifth Element. That said, I'd miss my own funeral to see Fritz Lang's Inception (or Tron, for that matter). Hmm... who could direct a Torchwood movie?
(I remember doing something like this a few years ago, with John Ford's Lord of the Rings; can't remember who I had as Aragorn (Cornel Wilde, maybe?), but Peter Lorre as Gollum, and Treebeard animated by Willis O' Brien...
The Matrix with Bruce Lee and Pam Grier was a standout, too. A Seventies-sensibility movie with Asians and black ladies fighting The Man in his purest form after taking A Pill and receiving psychic universal knowledge! Squee! And the Bond "Jaws" as the Terminator has charm, although the girl was all wrong for it.
I know squat from directors, although the Tron with Bauhaus doing music ... wow. And IIRC you had a thread about recasting some classics, I remember arguing a bit about noir actors.
Oh god can we have Nick and Nora Charles as Mr and Mrs Smith? Or are they too nice? They might be. Darn. (Although getting Pitt and Jolie to do a remake of The Thin Man would be adorable.)
And anything with Toshiro Mifune playing Obi-Wan is pretty hard to resist. I was just thinking the other day that, for her time, Leia especially in the first movie was solid awesome: she shoots people, defies Vader, is a princess AND an ambassador, and practically rescues herself after being tortured by the Empire. Screw Disney princess, that's who I imprinted on!
I think there's room for an Inception with the cast of Casablanca, too, with Bacall as the architect. And yeah, Fritz Lang's Tron... don't care who the actors are, selling a limb to see that one.
My brain just tried and failed to take the Seven Samurai cast and make Tarantino films. Owie.
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Date: 2012-01-21 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
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I'm torn between admiration of the art and hatred of some of his choices (I'd watch the shit out of that Fifth Element, but WTF dude Spencer Tracy is obviously the editor of the Daily Planet because Yul Brynner was BORN to play Luthor!)
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Date: 2012-01-21 12:03 pm (UTC)Not all movies, some kids' books and things, but wow, there's some movies I'd watch the crap out of, and some great posters, and yeah, go look.
http://hartter.blogspot.com/2009/11/misc.html
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Date: 2012-01-21 09:10 pm (UTC)Both of these sites are things of beauty and joys forever. (Jodorowsky directing a Corum movie makes almost too much sense, although I'd choose Boorman for the Connery Fifth Element. That said, I'd miss my own funeral to see Fritz Lang's Inception (or Tron, for that matter). Hmm... who could direct a Torchwood movie?
(I remember doing something like this a few years ago, with John Ford's Lord of the Rings; can't remember who I had as Aragorn (Cornel Wilde, maybe?), but Peter Lorre as Gollum, and Treebeard animated by Willis O' Brien...
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Date: 2012-01-22 02:47 am (UTC)I know squat from directors, although the Tron with Bauhaus doing music ... wow. And IIRC you had a thread about recasting some classics, I remember arguing a bit about noir actors.
Oh god can we have Nick and Nora Charles as Mr and Mrs Smith? Or are they too nice? They might be. Darn. (Although getting Pitt and Jolie to do a remake of The Thin Man would be adorable.)
And anything with Toshiro Mifune playing Obi-Wan is pretty hard to resist. I was just thinking the other day that, for her time, Leia especially in the first movie was solid awesome: she shoots people, defies Vader, is a princess AND an ambassador, and practically rescues herself after being tortured by the Empire. Screw Disney princess, that's who I imprinted on!
I think there's room for an Inception with the cast of Casablanca, too, with Bacall as the architect. And yeah, Fritz Lang's Tron... don't care who the actors are, selling a limb to see that one.
My brain just tried and failed to take the Seven Samurai cast and make Tarantino films. Owie.