By Brett Blake As I have no interest whatsoever in seeing either FAST & FURIOUS 6 or THE HANGOVER PART III, there won’t be a review from me this week. However, I can’t just let a week go by without writing something - anything - movie-related. Which brings me to this. In Re-Cast This Movie! (which may or may not turn out to be a recurring column), I will take a popular movie from years past and re-imagine it with different actors. Just for kicks, if you will. There are a few columns like this floating around the web, but I primarily took my inspiration for this from a thread on the CHUD.com message boards, and it makes for some fun, “What if?” reading material: http://www.chud.com/community/t/130268/recast-your-favorite-movies-2011-edition For this column’s inaugural run, I picked a movie that I know is close to the hearts of many people… Now, strictly speaking, the cast you’ll see below is meant to reflect Michael Crichton’s novel more than Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film. I've also played fast and loose with the ethnicity of some of the characters, but for the better, I think. So, if JURASSIC PARK were to be remade (or re-adapted), this is the kind of ensemble I’d love to see take it on… Michael Crichton's "JURASSIC PARK" Starring Aaron Eckhart as Alan Grant Sam Rockwell as Ian Malcolm Mark Ruffalo as Donald Gennaro* Idris Elba as Robert Muldoon Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ellie Sattler Jonah Hill as Dennis Nedry Jeffrey Wright as John Arnold Richard Jenkins as Dr. Harding** John Cho as Henry Wu Paul Dano as Ed Regis*** Special Appearance By Michael Fassbender as Lewis Dodgson**** And Starring Michael Caine (who else?!) as John Hammond Notes
* Gennaro is much more important in the novel than in the movie; he's an "everyman," and also one of the more decent, even heroic characters. He's no cowardly guy hiding in the outhouse waiting to get eaten. ** It's a similar story for Dr. Harding, who's barely in the movie at all; his role in the novel is substantially larger, warranting an actor of Jenkins' stature. *** Poor Ed Regis didn't even get included in the movie at all, though some of his characteristics were absorbed by the movie's version of Gennaro. It is Regis who is cowardly and easily agitated, and who ends up on the receiving end of a T-Rex's jaws. **** Dodgson only shows up briefly in Crichton's novel (and in Spielberg's movie), but he goes on to become the central human villain of the sequel novel, THE LOST WORLD. So I figure we get Fassbender to do the cameo here to set him up as one of the leads in the sequel film. Well, there it is. Let me hear how badly I screwed this up, or what some of your ideas might be!
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Brett Blake
5/24/2013 02:55:53 pm
Hahaha. I'm highly skeptical of this franchise. I've only seen the first two installments, and I was not impressed. Granted, everybody pretty much lost their minds for FAST FIVE, so there must be something to it, but the whole enterprise just seems ridiculous... and not in a good way. But I'm always receptive to someone attempting to convince me otherwise...
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