Pick a movie and then recast one part

Dawson's 50 Load Weekend, starring me!

BLOW OUT starring Marlee Matlin

Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Truman Capote.

Sophie’s Choice, starring Paul Lynde

Star Wars starring Shaun Cassidy, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kent McCord

"Jill Learns About Periods," starring Lens Dunham

The Wizard of Oz starring Eleanor Powell. The ruby slippers give Dorothy the power to tap which she takes every opportunity to. From munchkin land after the witch disappears a tap of determination. Then after Ray Bolger dances Eleanor has to outdo the Broadway ham. After they're freshened up in Oz, then after the witch is killed, then when she about to leave with the Wizard back to Kansas. Her encore after the wowed crowd applauses causes her to miss the trip.

Dangerous Liaisons starring me.

You'd be great in the Swoosie Kurtz role, M.

Jennifer Lawrence in Deep Throat

The Godfather starring Don Knotts.

1941's A Woman's Face, starring Bette Davis. The story of a hideously scarred female criminal who gets facial surgery and becomes...okay-looking, I guess, but not particularly attractive.

BOOM! starring Bonnie Franklin

Antichrist, starring Isabel Sanford.

R14 Nice.

Psycho, with Marilyn Monroe as Marion Crane.

Boys Don’t Cry with Joyce DeWitt as Brandon Teena.

"The Sound of Music," with Sam Elliott as the Baroness.

Crusin' starring Sam Elliott

Hannibal starring Jodie Foster as Clarice, as it should have been.

Tom Hanks IS Henry Hill in Goodfellas

Rip Taylor as Mrs. Doubtfire.

Apocalypse Now starring Rosalind Russell as Kurtz.

Robert Taylor as Mrs. Doubtfire.

R23 Produced by Freddie Brisson.

Bea Arthur in the damsel in distress role

in "King Kong" (the 1976 remake).

Paul Lynde as Dorothy in "The Wiz"

Kirstie Alley & Melania Trump in "Thelma & Louise".

The top 5 billed actors in "Cocoon" starring in "The Breakfast Club"

Pee Wee Herman in "Superman Returns".

Joan Van Ark as Rocky in "The Mask"

"The Sound of Music," with Fran Drescher as, well, the nanny.

Rue McClanhan as the Kathy Bates character in "Misery".

Bea Arthur as the Sly Stallone character in "Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot!".

Justine Bateman replaces Matthew J. Fox

in all of the "Back To The Future" films.

Whoopi Goldberg replacing Will Smith

in all of the Men In Black" films

Will Smith replacing Whoopi in those singing nun movies.

DOOL actor James Scott in all of those Batman films.

The Sound of Music starring MISS Helen Lawson.

Bonus number written just for Helen, "I'll Plant My Own Nazi!"

Esther Rolle replaces Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

The Exorcist - with Pamelyn Ferdin in the Linda Blair role

Burt Reynolds IS Barry Lyndon

An Early Frost, starring Eddie Deezen

Carrie with Karen Black as Margaret White

G in, well, anything really

The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Holliday

Elizabeth

Starring Cate Blanchett and Redd Foxx

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Starring Richard Simmons

The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews now playing the old bitch nun

Gus Van Sant’s Psycho

“CUT!…….Anne, read Norman’s lines; Vince - you’re Marion.”

Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Matt Damon

The Blob

Margot Kidder in Alien

Suzanne Somers as Cunta Kente

Titanic with Chrissy Metz in the title role.

R11

[Quote] The Godfather Starring Don Knotts

“The Ricotta Dumpling Gang”

Vicki Lawrence instead of Ellen Burstyn in "Requiem for a Dream"

Stockard Channing in the Tatum O'Neal role in Paper Moon.

Peter Dinklage in The Passion of the Christ

Madonna in Showgirls

Paul Newman as Carl Bernstein in *All the President's Men*.

Let's put Florence Henderson in the role of Mariah Carey in Glitter.

For that matter, let's make Mike Brady the star of Magic Mike. Who needs Channing Tatum.

Ernest Borgnine is "Jezebel"!

Barbara Stanwyck as Mildred Pierce

Sam Elliott in Dawson's 50 Load Weekend

Hello Dolly! with Judy Holliday

MAME with Kay Kendall

Titanic, with Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman

Moment By Moment, with Jada Pinkett-Smith and Zac Efron

Dr Zhivago with Tyler Perry as Madea in the Lara role

Brenda Dickson as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest.

The Maltese Falcon, starring Bruce Vilanch.

Claudette Colbert as Blanche Dubois.

Edward Everett Horton as Sir Alfred De Carter in "Unfaithfully Yours"

Mariah Carey in Evita.

Vertigo with Jerry Lewis and Elke Sommer

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte with Joan Crawford

Suddenly, Last Summer with Vivien Leigh

"Boxing Helena."

The left leg.

My left foot - with the right foot.

Bonfire of the Vanities, William Hurt (in his younger years) as Sherman McCoy instead of Tom Hanks. I'd change pretty much everything else, too. Maybe Sean Young in the Melanie Griffith role. Some English asshole instead of Bruce Willis. Scorsese or Kubrick or maybe Mike Nichols directing.

Airport 1975 with Marlee Matlin in the Karen Black role.

Rocky.

I'd like to switch out Dolph Lungren with Peter Dinklage.

From Here to Eternity with Joan Crawford

R4 Goddamn that was funny. I hated that lugubrious shit movie.

Jack McBrayer as James Bond

R49 Is a faggot!

Breakfast At Tiffany's, starring Madonna

No, LaWanda Page in Breakfast At Tiffany's.

Caitlyn Jenner as Rose in Titanic.

Moscow on the Hudson starring Moms Mabley

Breakfast at Tiffany's with Marilyn Monroe

Sunset Boulevard with Norma Shearer

Sunset Boulevard with Mae West

Sunset Boulevard with

Johnny Belinda with Ethel Merman

Sunset Boulevard with Edward G. Robinson

*Sunset Boulevard with Mary Astor

Children of a Lesser God with Debra Winger

Faye Dunaway as Carmen in Carmen Jones

Faye Dunaway as Lassie in Lassie Come Home

Faye Dunaway as Whore 1, Slut 2, and Homeless man in the People vs. Larry Flynt

Bette Davis is Mommie Deartest

Fat enby Demi Lovato in Breaking the Waves

Alok as Glenn in Dangerous Laisons, Jessica Yaviv in the Michelle Pfeiffer role.

Helen Lawson in Fatal Attraction

Marjorie Main in An Indecent Proposal

Gabourey Sidibe in The Wiz

[quote]LaWanda Page in Breakfast At Tiffany's.

I would watch the fuck out of that

Joan Crawford as Carol Brady.

Martha Raye as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.

Sunset Boulevard starting Mae West. Not a stretch. She was approached about playing the part.

Batman Returns starring David Arquette

Caitlyn Jenner as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.

Miss Lindsey as 'Hello Dolly'.

Them! starring Demi Lovato

The Shawshank Redemption, starring Timothy Hutton

Roadhouse, starring Rip Taylor

Braveheart, starring Will Smith

Serial Mom, starring Goldie Hawn

Sweet Dreams, starring Sean Young

Kindergarten Cop, starring Danny DeVito

Barbara Stanwyck as Stephanie McCroskey in Airplane! with Charles Nelson Reilly as Johnny.

Gypsy with Ethel Merman or Judy Garland instead of Rosalind Russell

Lucille Ball in Gilda. That way she can put the blame on Mame.

Nedra Volz and Clara Peller in Easy Rider, with Judith Lowry in the Jack Nicholson role.

Sunset Boulevard with Norma Shearer

The Razor's Edge with Judy Garland

My Cousin Rachel with Vivien Leigh

Casablanca with Hedy Lamarr

Montgomery Clift as Joe Gillis in Sunset Blvd.

Billy Dee Williams opposite Barbara Streisand in "The Main Event".

Warren Beatty in "Kill Bill" (who Quentin originally wanted).

Quentin Crisp instead of Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity"

Whoopi Goldberg in The Iron Lady.

Betty Hutton IS Scarlett O'Hara

I am Baroness Blixen!

All About Eve, Starring Chace Crawford

Silence of the Lambs, starring Judy Garland as Clarice

Larry David in the title role of "Patton"

Tallulah Bankhead in Mary Poppins. She wouldn't stop guzzling that rum punch or mauling all those chimney sweeps. And flying with her umbrella Look give the entire city of London a view of her black forest.

Billie Burke and Frank Morgan as the Baroness and Baron of Vulgaria with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald as Cattaragus Potts and Truly Scrumptious.

R130 With Bette Davis as Mrs. Banks!

Apocalypse Now starring Gilbert Gottfried.

Danny Pintauro is… The Terminator!

Susan Boyle in A Star is Born.

The Parent Trap -Starring Bette Davis and Bette Davis

Orca, starring Roxane Gay in the title role

Lizzo as The Island of Dr Moreau

"The Wizard Of Oz" starting Deanna Durbin instead of Judy Garland.

How about The Wizard of Oz starring Rebel Wilson instead of Judy Garland?

[italic]Sophie's Choice,[/italic] starring Ethel Merman in the role of a lifetime

Ms. Angie Dickinson as Rue McClanahan as Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux in The Golden Girls: Behind the Shit in Betty’s Dressing Room

Cary Grant in the role of James Mason for A Star is Born

Judy Garland in the James Mason role for A Star is Born

Greta Garbo as a gender swapped Dorian Gray

Angela Lansbury in Mame

Angela Lansbury in Mame

“The Thomas Crown Affair” starring Ernest Borgnine

Waylaid Flowers in Call Me Madam

Chrissy Mertz in Single White Female- playing each female and male rolls……..mmmmm rolls

Joan Collins as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate

Suzanne Pleshette as Gloria in Butterfield 8

Fuck it, I'm going to do three:

"The Wizard of Oz" featuring

Moe Howard as The Scarecrow

Larry Fine as The Tin Man

and

"Curly" Howard as The Cowardly Lion

"How long can you stay fresh in that can? Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!"

Marathon Man starring Christopher Reeve

The Little Mermaid starring Natalie Wood

Laverne Cox as Rambo

Murder on the Orient Express (1974 version) with Bobcat Goldthwaite as Hercule Poirot.

All About Eve, starring Faye Dunaway as Eve in OP's version.

Citizen Kane, starring Billy Porter as Emily Monroe Norton Kane

Rhea Pearlman in Pretty Woman

Billy Porter as Truman Capote in Capote

Bea Arthur as Rose in Titanic

Sandy Duncan in One Eye Jacks

Karen Carpenter as Madea

Howard Stern, Adam Driver, Marc Anthony, and Bill Cosby in Magic Mike

Miyoshi Umeki, as Helen Lawson.

“So ‘ya come crawlin’ back ta BroadWAY…”

[italic]Bohemian Rhapsody[/italic] starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

Joan Crawford as Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls

Shakespeare in Love, starring a young Cate Blanchett (alt. the late lamented Natasha Richatdson) and a young(er) Tom Hiddleston.

Cate Blanchett in a snuff movie

Mommie Dearest

Grayson Hall as Carol Ann

Carrot Top IS Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho".

Georgia Engel IS Bree Daniels in "Klute."

Kramer vs Kramer starring Timothy Dalton as Obi-Wan.

Raymond Burr charms audiences as the Emcee in CABARET!

Patty Duke Inside Daisy Clover

Victor Buono in Smokey and the Bandit

Barbara Stanwyck in On Golden Pond

Vivien Leigh in Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Pride & Prejudice and all the other movies Larry wanted to cast her in

Montgomery Clift in Reflections in a Golden Eye (as originally intended before his fateful death that is)

Linda Darnell in Pinky

Charles Laughton in place of Esther Williams in any movie of hers.

Adrienne Barbeau in Mother Juggs and. Speed.

Some Like It Hot with Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Victor Buono as Major Penderton n in Reflections in a Golden Eye

Lindsay Lohan as Neely O'Hara VOTD

To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Jerry Lewis.

Showgirls (1995) starring Richard Simmons

R177- How about Esther Rolle in place of Esther Wiliams in any movie of hers.

Anne Bancroft in “Mommie Dearest.” She read the script but turned it down. It would’ve been interesting, but not campy.

Bette Davis in “On Golden Pond.

R186, R187, R188, R189- David HOLD ME!

Warwick Davis as Linda Blair in the Exorcist.

BONNIE FRANKLIN as Liesl, SOUND OF MUSIC

FRANCES BAVIER instead of Diana Ross in MAHAGONY

Mother Jefferson ( Zara Cully) as Beth Jarrett in Ordinary People

Buck NEVER would have cast Mother Jefferson as Beth Jarrett- MTM

Charlotte Rae as Bluto in Animal House.

Goldie Hawn replacing Anthony Quinn as the Pope in The Shoes of the Fisherman. Takes the papal name Benjamin.

[quote]Bette Davis in “On Golden Pond.

In the Henry Fonda part.

Kathleen Turner as Mary Haines in The Women with Debra Winger as Crystal Allen, Cathy Moriarty as Sylvia Fowler and Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Moorhead. Special guest star Harvey Fierstein as Lucy.

Nell Carter in "Nell".

A definite Oscar nomination!

Miriam Hopkins in Jezebel

Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady

Jussie as Rosie Hart in Chicago.....

Linda Darnell in The Barefoot Contessa

"Valley of the Dolls" with Dyan Cannon in place of Patty Duke.

Johnny Rapid as Kevin in Home Alone.

Lizzo as Rasputia in Norbit.

Barbara Parkins as Neely O'Hara instead of Anne Wells in Valley of the Dolls

"My Fair Lady" with Our Rose from "Keeping Up Appearances" as Eliza.

Ina Garten as the Barefoot Contessa instead of Ava Gardner.

Bea Benaderet as Lady Macbeth in Polanski's Macbeth. That laugh would cut through the thickest of castle walls.

Joanne Worley as Rosemary in Rosemary's Baby

R211 With Ruth Buzzi as Minnie!

Dana Plato as Kara Strode in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Courtney Love as Nancy instead of Gretchen in Sid and Nancy

Cathy Moriarty in place of Karen Lynn Gorney for "Saturday Night Fever."

Henry Gibson replacing Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever.

Anyone who can act, in place of Jennifer O'Neill in Summer Of 42 (watching it right now on TCM).

Miriam Hopkins in It Happened One Night

Gone With the Wind with either Roxanne Gay or Joy Reid in either Mammy’s or Prissy’s roles.

Joan Crawford as Margo Channing in All About Eve Bette Davis as Jenny Stewart in Torch Song

Birth of a Nation recast with the entire Trumpublican Party.

"Mrs. Jones Entertains" (1909) with Mae Marsh replacing Florence Lawrence.

Paul Lynde is DIRTY HARRY

Kitt from KR in "Herbie Goes Bananas".

Shirley Hemphill as Tracy Chambers in MAHOGANY

Carol Channing as Mrs. Voorhies in Friday the 13th.

When Harry Met Sally, except the guy all the way in the back played by Arlene Golonka

Joan as Jesus in the The Last Temptation Of Crawford.

Rosanne Barr in Cleopatra

Lindsey Graham in Driving Miss Daisy

Not as the chauffer.

The Devil Wears Prada starring DL icon Melissa Beth Miller.

R204 no one could have replaced Patty Duke as Neely O'Hara 👍

I'm sure it has been said but Madonna owns this thread. No movie has ever benefited from her revolting midget box.

"Bent" starring George Gobel.

R16, I think that would have been genuinely interesting. When Janet Leigh was killed off early in the film it was a sensation. Imagine what the reaction would have been to Marilyn.

Julia Roberts in Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman

BRENDA DICKSON as The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Behind the Green Door, starring Shelley Winters.

Blue Velvet: instead of Isabella Rossellini, I'd cast Meryl Streep as Dorothy Vallens.

The End of the Affair: instead of Julianne Moore, I'd cast Elisabeth Shue as Sarah Miles.

Ghost: instead of Whoopi, I'd cast Vicki Lawrence as Oda Mae Brown.

Sleepy Hollow: I would cast Ben Whishaw instead of Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane.

Leaving Las Vegas: instead of Nicholas Cage, I'd cast Vince Vaughn. Yes, I would, too.

The Age of Innocence: Instead of Danile Day Lewis, I would cast Tom Cruise as Newland Archer.

Interview with a Vampire: instead of Kirsten Dunst, I'd cast Shirley Temple as Claudia.

Laura: instead of Dana Andres, I would cast Gary Cooper as the cop, Mark McPherson.

Gilda: instead of Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell I'd cast Sean Bean.

(In all of the roles, I'd cast the stars at their peak--Shirley as a nine year old, Meryl Streep in her early thirties, etc.)

Faye Dunaway in The Devil Wears Prada

"The Old Man & The Sea": Joan Crawford.

"A Woman's Face" starring Michael Jackson

Resident Evil with Asia Argento as Alice

The King and I with Maureen O'Hara

"Dawson's 50 Load Weekend", starring "Match Games'" very own, Richard Dawson!

Meet Me in St. Louis starring Anna Magnani.

Katharine Hepburn as Margaret DeLorca/Edie in Dead Ringer.

All About Eve with Anne Bancroft as Eve

Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer starring Benny Hill.

Charlene Tilton as Clarice in Silence of the Lambs

^Charlene Tilton as the abducted girl Catherine Martin in The Silence of the Lambs

Joan Crawford playing herself in Mommie Dearest

Vivien Leigh in Mary Poppins causing Jane and Michael great confusion as she frequently goes into the park on Cherry Tree Lane hungrily looking for sex.

Joan Crawford in The Sound of Music. With 7 children to torment and beat and an entire mansion to chew up let alone an abbey and the Austrian alps she would at least have gotten an Oscar nomination.

Shirley Booth as Daisy in The Great Gatsby because she's the great Shirley Booth and a figure of unattainable love.

Quinn Cummings as Christina, in Mommie Dearest.

Jean Simmons in Roman Holiday. The role was intended for her originally.

Erna as Jenny Bowman in "I Could Go On Singing"