Brit remakes of American films

[Random]

During the Wickerman remake thread ovaltine said:

"They should leave it alone. Maybe we should threaten to remake Easy Rider with the Chuckle Brothers riding scooters on the Isle of Wight unless they leave our fucking movies alone."

For revenge's sake, let's have thread full of similar Brit remaikes of iconic/quintessentially American films

To start off -- A remake of Casblanca, moved to Bangkok, where Ray Winstone is the hard-drinking ex-pat owner of a lady-boys bar, who has to choose whose side he's on, when his former lover (Sam Fox) turns up, chased by the FBI, with her new boyfriend, (pot-liberationist Clive Owen) in tow.

 

[lyra_k]

Pulp Fiction, with the cast of EastEnders.

 

[Santino]

Didn't Guy Ritchie already do that?

 

[lyra_k]

Didn't Guy Ritchie already do that?

hahaha!

 

[D'wards]

Maybe a remake of Raging Bull with Chris Eubank starring.

"Did you thuck my wife?"

 

[siarc]

maya deren's 'meshes of the afternoon' with andi peters and billie
cassavetes 'faces' in the milieu of 'birds of a feather' could work

etc

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Deliverance, staring the Royal Family.

Night of the Living Dead, staring The Rolling Stones.

 

[bfg]

A Fistful of Dollars

starring Bernie Clifton and his comedy ostrich

 

[chooch]

Keith Barron, Billie Piper and Elizabeth Hurley in Michael Winner's Taxi Driver

 

[laptop]

On the Waterfront with Warren Mitchell

Easy Rider with David Bradley ('im out of Kes) and Aled Jones, making an epic journey, on choppers, from Norwich to Harlow

Some Like it Hot with Eddie Izzard and Paul O'Grady (ooooh... © 2005 me)

Deliverance with the cast of Four Weddings (it's British and dark: they die)

Vanishing Point with Audrey Tautou in a Mini (a BBC/ZDF/TF2 co-production)

High Noon with Adam Okaro off The Bill

This could go on and on...

 

[Santino]

How about a crappy remake of 'The Longest Yard' starring... ooh I don't know... Vinny Jones?

 

[purves grundy]

The Deer Hunter with Ricky Gervais in de Niro's starring role

 

[pilchardman]

Hi Fidelity, set in London rather than Chicago!

 

[ovaltina]

how about it's a wonderful life with keith chegwin as the lead character and jimmy saville as the evil banker...

 

[Balbi]

Singing In The Rain starring Robbie Williams and Darius Danesh

White Heat starring Adam Woodyat as Cagney

 

[starfish]

West Side Story - Starring Ali G & The Staines Massive.

 

[zed66]

Forrest Gump with Brian Blessed

Apocalypse Now with Dennis Waterman
(actor who plays Fred Elliot in Corrie to reprise Brando role)

Ben Hur with Julian Clarey

Citizen Cane with Chubby Brown

The African Queen-with Richard and Judy

 

[dylanredefined]

Deliverance brit style if hugh grant gets to be piggy I dpay to see that .Pearl harbour as a comedy ?

 

[laptop]

Top Gun as a rural comedy, WACS-stylee...

 

[Santino]

(actor who plays Fred Elliot in Corrie to reprise Brando role)

The horror, I say THE HORROR.

That would be sweet.

 

[zed66]

The horror, I say THE HORROR.

That would be sweet.

How about the Godfather?

Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking, I say NEVER TELL ANYBODY OUTSIDE THE FAMILY WHAT YOU'RE THINKING etc.....

 

[Santino]

I could have been a contender, I say I COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER.

 

[DaveCinzano]

bu to be fair, all these remakes still sound superior to most blockbusting yankee dross

 

[D'wards]

Houston......we have a problem, i say 'OUSTON WE 'AVE A PROBLEM

 

[zed66]

Another one for Brian Blessed...The Quiet Man (John Ford 1952)

The Wizard of Oz-Jo Brand

Thelma and Louise-Kim and Aggie from "How Clean is Your House"

Midnight Cowboy-Little and Large

 

[zed66]

I think I've just sorted out the casting for Popeye Doyle in the remake of the French Connection...

 

[jms]

Some Like it Hot with Eddie Izzard and Paul O'Grady (ooooh... © 2005 me)
D

Its scary how easily I can imagine that film

 

[zed66]

And for the remake of 12 Angry Men- Jim Davidson in Henry Fonda's role.

Schindler's List-Shane Ritchie

Shane-Harry Hill

Goodfellas-Eric Sykes as Henry Hill, Jim Dale from Carry on films playing Robert de Niros role.

Striptease-Pam St Clement (Pat Butcher)

 

[zed66]

Scarface came out in '83, got to be due a remake by now....

You wanna fuck with me? OK. You wanna play rough? OK. Say hello to my little friend.

 

[Batley]

Any Spike Lee film.... starring Leonard Rossiter, Terry Scott and Penelope Keith. I am not sure if June Whitfield could properly embrace the role of downtrodden but spiritual black American matriarch but I would let her have a bash.