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Take a good look… we’re going to recast these characters!
Horror movies love sequels and reboots. So, a recast is always around the corner. The Scariest Things is going to do what everybody fears: recasting movies that really shouldn’t be rebooted. BUT WE’RE DOING IT ANYWAYS! Redoing A Nightmare on Elm Street with blockbuster casts. Check! A reboot of Jaws with women in the lead? Done! Extending the It story to 27 years, for a Chapter 3 using a senior citizen cast. You betcha! And Hereditary, but swapping out for an all black cast? We can do that! Sacrilege? Absolutely, but you know you want to know who we picked!
It’s a cottage industry, predicting who Marvel or DC might cast for their superheroes. The anticipation of who might portray… say BATMAN… has been discussed in numerous podcasts and media posts. But horror movies? The reboots are frequent, but really not that memorable. Can you name all of the Jason Voorhees actors? (tick… tick… tick…)
However, there is a wonderful tradition with Dracula, in particular. This is just a portion of the casting call for the famous bloodsucker:
The Podcast: Episode 203: The Great Horror Recast
This was a fun episode. It is a long episode, but it’s totally worth listening to, because we know you do these experiments too! If you want to get the spoilers… read below for our selections. A little crazy, and not always on script, but this episode was a blast!
Our Selections:
The original cast of A Nightmare on Elm Street: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, and Amanda Wyss
A Horror Recast of A Nightmare on Elm Street
(What was Mike thinking?)
(What was Mike thinking?)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Freddy Krueger
Robert Englund
Andy Serkis
Bonnie Aarons
Kevin Durand
Nancy Thompson
Heather Langenkamp
Madeline McGraw
Nico Parker
Sydney Sweeney
Glen Lantz
Johnny Depp
Noah Toth
Michael Cimino
Austin Butler
Tina Grey
Amanda Wyss
Alisha Weir
Kathryn Newton
Margot Robbie
Rod Lane
Jsu Garcia
Noah Schnapp
Pete Davidson
(skipped)
Lt. Donald Thompson
John Saxon
Danny McBride
Billy Burke
Robert Forster
Marge Thompson
Ronee Blakley
Jennifer Aniston
Thandie Newton
Meryl Streep
Director
Wes Craven
Damien Leone
Lee Cronin
Christopher Nolan
A Horror Recast of Jaws, but with a female cast
Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Chief Brody
Roy Scheider
Emily Blunt
Jessica Chastain
Parker Posey
Quint
Robert Shaw
Allison Janney
Jodie Foster
Michelle Rodriguez
Hooper
Richard Dreyfuss
Mindy Kaling
Julia Garner
Sunita Mani
Ellen Brodie
Lorraine Gary
John Krasinski
Zoe Kravitz
Dennis Quaid
Charlie
Susan Backlinie
Chris Hemsworth
Tom Holland
Chris Hemsworth
Mayor Vaughn
Murray Hamilton
Amy Poehler
Viola Davis
Melissa McCarthy
Director
Steven Spielberg
Kathryn Bigelow
Anna Kendrick
Mary Harron
It: Chapter 3: Casting 27 years after the previous film
James Ransome, Jay Ryan, Isiah Mustapha, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, and Bill Hader in It: Chapter 2 (2019)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Pennywise
Bill Skaarsgard
Bill Skarsgard
Bill Skarsgard
*Tim Curry
Beverly Marsh
Sophia Lillis/ Jessica Chastain
Geena Davis
Francis Fisher
Julianne Moore
Bill Denbrough
Jayden Martell / James McAvoy
Kenneth Branagh
Pierce Brosnan
Ewan MacGregor
Richie Tozer
Finn Wolfhard/ Bill Hader
Jeffrey Goldblum
Liam Neeson
Dana Carvey
Mike Hanlon
Chosen Jacobs / Isiah Mustafa
Jeffrey Wright
Denzel Washington
Laurence Fishburn
Ben Hanscom
Jeremy Ray Taylor/ Jay Ryan
Vincent D’Onofrio
Don Johnson
Liam Neeson
Jack Dylan Glazer/ James Ransome
—
—
Hugh Grant
Stanley Uris
Wyatt Oleff / Andy Bean
—
—
Hugh Jackman
A Horror Recast of Hereditary, but with an all black cast
Milly Shapiro, Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, and ALex Wolff in Hereditary (2018)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Annie
Toni Collette
Taraji P Henson
Halle Berry
Regina King
Charlie
Milly Shapiro
Pria Ferguson
Storm Reid
Madison Currie
Steve
Gabriel Byrne
Sterling K Brown
Terrance Howard
Denzel Washington
Peter
Alex Wolff
Justice Smith
Miles Catton
Daniel Kaluuya
Joanie
Anna Down
Octavia Spencer
Pam Grier
Queen Latifa
Director
Ari Aster
Nia DaCosta
The Phillipou Brothers
Little Marvin
Location
Salt Lake City
Savannah
Boston
Washington DC
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Take a good look… we’re going to recast these characters!
Horror movies love sequels and reboots. So, a recast is always around the corner. The Scariest Things is going to do what everybody fears: recasting movies that really shouldn’t be rebooted. BUT WE’RE DOING IT ANYWAYS! Redoing A Nightmare on Elm Street with blockbuster casts. Check! A reboot of Jaws with women in the lead? Done! Extending the It story to 27 years, for a Chapter 3 using a senior citizen cast. You betcha! And Hereditary, but swapping out for an all black cast? We can do that! Sacrilege? Absolutely, but you know you want to know who we picked!
It’s a cottage industry, predicting who Marvel or DC might cast for their superheroes. The anticipation of who might portray… say BATMAN… has been discussed in numerous podcasts and media posts. But horror movies? The reboots are frequent, but really not that memorable. Can you name all of the Jason Voorhees actors? (tick… tick… tick…)
However, there is a wonderful tradition with Dracula, in particular. This is just a portion of the casting call for the famous bloodsucker:
The Podcast: Episode 203: The Great Horror Recast
This was a fun episode. It is a long episode, but it’s totally worth listening to, because we know you do these experiments too! If you want to get the spoilers… read below for our selections. A little crazy, and not always on script, but this episode was a blast!
Our Selections:
The original cast of A Nightmare on Elm Street: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, and Amanda Wyss
A Horror Recast of A Nightmare on Elm Street
(What was Mike thinking?)
(What was Mike thinking?)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Freddy Krueger
Robert Englund
Andy Serkis
Bonnie Aarons
Kevin Durand
Nancy Thompson
Heather Langenkamp
Madeline McGraw
Nico Parker
Sydney Sweeney
Glen Lantz
Johnny Depp
Noah Toth
Michael Cimino
Austin Butler
Tina Grey
Amanda Wyss
Alisha Weir
Kathryn Newton
Margot Robbie
Rod Lane
Jsu Garcia
Noah Schnapp
Pete Davidson
(skipped)
Lt. Donald Thompson
John Saxon
Danny McBride
Billy Burke
Robert Forster
Marge Thompson
Ronee Blakley
Jennifer Aniston
Thandie Newton
Meryl Streep
Director
Wes Craven
Damien Leone
Lee Cronin
Christopher Nolan
A Horror Recast of Jaws, but with a female cast
Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Chief Brody
Roy Scheider
Emily Blunt
Jessica Chastain
Parker Posey
Quint
Robert Shaw
Allison Janney
Jodie Foster
Michelle Rodriguez
Hooper
Richard Dreyfuss
Mindy Kaling
Julia Garner
Sunita Mani
Ellen Brodie
Lorraine Gary
John Krasinski
Zoe Kravitz
Dennis Quaid
Charlie
Susan Backlinie
Chris Hemsworth
Tom Holland
Chris Hemsworth
Mayor Vaughn
Murray Hamilton
Amy Poehler
Viola Davis
Melissa McCarthy
Director
Steven Spielberg
Kathryn Bigelow
Anna Kendrick
Mary Harron
It: Chapter 3: Casting 27 years after the previous film
James Ransome, Jay Ryan, Isiah Mustapha, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, and Bill Hader in It: Chapter 2 (2019)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Pennywise
Bill Skaarsgard
Bill Skarsgard
Bill Skarsgard
*Tim Curry
Beverly Marsh
Sophia Lillis/ Jessica Chastain
Geena Davis
Francis Fisher
Julianne Moore
Bill Denbrough
Jayden Martell / James McAvoy
Kenneth Branagh
Pierce Brosnan
Ewan MacGregor
Richie Tozer
Finn Wolfhard/ Bill Hader
Jeffrey Goldblum
Liam Neeson
Dana Carvey
Mike Hanlon
Chosen Jacobs / Isiah Mustafa
Jeffrey Wright
Denzel Washington
Laurence Fishburn
Ben Hanscom
Jeremy Ray Taylor/ Jay Ryan
Vincent D’Onofrio
Don Johnson
Liam Neeson
Jack Dylan Glazer/ James Ransome
—
—
Hugh Grant
Stanley Uris
Wyatt Oleff / Andy Bean
—
—
Hugh Jackman
A Horror Recast of Hereditary, but with an all black cast
Milly Shapiro, Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, and ALex Wolff in Hereditary (2018)
Character
Original Actor
Eric’s Pick
Heather’s Pick
Mike’s Pick
Annie
Toni Collette
Taraji P Henson
Halle Berry
Regina King
Charlie
Milly Shapiro
Pria Ferguson
Storm Reid
Madison Currie
Steve
Gabriel Byrne
Sterling K Brown
Terrance Howard
Denzel Washington
Peter
Alex Wolff
Justice Smith
Miles Catton
Daniel Kaluuya
Joanie
Anna Down
Octavia Spencer
Pam Grier
Queen Latifa
Director
Ari Aster
Nia DaCosta
The Phillipou Brothers
Little Marvin
Location
Salt Lake City
Savannah
Boston
Washington DC
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