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Author Topic: If they made Airplane! today. Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 08-13-2011 12:08 PM                        This question was posed to me last night. If they made Airplane! today -- which modern day actors would be best cast? We aren't speaking about if the RE-MADE Airplane! - But if they made a shot for shot hommage to the original, who would be cast. Another approach is if the original had never been made (and therefore few other film genre parodies) assuming a studio absolutely 100% ignored political correctness, could a similarly funny movie be made? The only person I could think of for Elaine was Anne Hathaway, but only before we all knew who she was. Ideas?  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 08-13-2011 01:22 PM                     Something tells me LeBron or Kobe would be Roger Murdock. Jive Man: definitely Samuel L. Jackson. The rest? Gosh, that's a tough question. I'd imagine Steve Carrell would be somewhere, but I have no idea who.... AJG  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-13-2011 02:55 PM                     Carell would be Stryker for sure. I don't know of anyone who could replace Leslie Nielsen though.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 08-14-2011 08:36 AM                        Casting Carrell would go against the casting of the first "Airplane!", as all the primary roles in that film were played by actors who were at the time considered serious character actors. That was part of the reason the movie was so fun. You didn't expect what you got from those actors. And they all played their roles as serious.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-14-2011 11:52 AM                     Al Pacino?  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 08-14-2011 12:00 PM                     In that case Sam, perhaps Daniel Day-Lewis as Stryker? Check out this list for a good start. AJG  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-14-2011 12:01 PM                     On that list of "the best actors of today", Kevin Bacon is #27 but Harrison Ford is #32? Will Smith should play Stryker. That way he could say "awwww, hell no" several times.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-14-2011 12:01 PM                        I could see Steve Carell as that goofy guy at the airport who pulls the plug on the runway lights, etc.  |  IP: Logged David M. Leugers Film Handler Posts: 43 From: Fairfield, Ohio, united States of America Registered: Jan 2005 posted 08-15-2011 11:53 PM                     Alec Baldwin as Air Traffic Controller Steve McCroskey (Loyd Bridges)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2011 12:28 AM                     At first I thought DiNero could play Stryker... But it dawned on me. There is no way in hell this movie could ever be remade and come out half as funny as the first one is. There IS just no way. I also believe that one of the reasons this movie is so good is because of the time period is was made in. 1979-80. Things were a lot different back then. Really, the first one IS absolutely perfect to this day. It would be the equivelent of attempting a remake of Casablanca and there are no present day actors that could fit into that movie. Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er. Captain Oveur: Roger! Roger Murdock: Huh? Victor Basta: Request vector, over. Captain Oveur: What? Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324. Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence. Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor? Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over! Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over. Tower voice: Over. Captain Oveur: Roger. Roger Murdock: Huh? Tower voice: Roger, over! Roger Murdock: What? Captain Oveur: Huh? Victor Basta: Who? Mark  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 08-16-2011 12:30 AM                     Mike, don't you mean Johnny! AJG  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-16-2011 12:36 AM                     quote: Mike Blakesley I could see Steve Carell as that goofy guy at the airport who pulls the plug on the runway lights, etc. Nah, Steven Toblowsky! Groundhog Day I couldn't find any clips from Sneakers where he plays Werner Brandes. (If anyone has not seen this movie, correct that immediately.) No wait I've got one even better. Chris Elliott!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-16-2011 01:02 AM                     Another thing that added to Airplane is that it was on the heals of the (too) many Airport movies. So the whole subject matter was ready for spoofing. Add to that the good sense of schtick and having serious actors playing comedy in a dead-pan way...it was just a very good mix. Having Mrs Cleaver translating jive...just too funny!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-17-2011 11:44 AM                        I still remember seeing Airplane for the first time, in Bozeman MT. I was with a group of three friends. When we got home, we all kept telling this other friend, Dennis (who hadn't been with us) the funny lines from the movie. So a couple of weeks later it played at the Roxy, Dennis came to it ... and when it was over, he said "Well it was good, but you sons-of-bitches told me the whole movie ahead of time!" We just couldn't help it, it was SO funny you just had to quote lines to people.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 08-17-2011 12:21 PM                     I'd love to see a new spoof of something...but I think writers have forgotten how to write a good one. AJG  |  IP: Logged

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