DiCaprio is considered too old by 2015, while keeping Hemsworth with an Australian accent is defended. — Bill Simmons
Hathaway could have entered prison thin and built his physique there; the role still needs physicality. — Bill Simmons
Jeremy Renner around 2009 is an appealing possibility, but he might already be too old for the 2015 film. — Bill Simmons
Miles Teller is considered too young for a character presumed to be in his mid-thirties; Gyllenhaal is floated. — Bill Simmons
Adam Driver emerges as the preferred alternative because he can plausibly be both a hacker and physically formidable. — Bill Simmons
Jon Bernthal is proposed as the hacker villain, though the discussion acknowledges his negative experience with Mann and questions his plausibility as a hacker. — Bill Simmons
For Sydney Sweeney’s husband, a younger Adam Driver is considered; Glen Powell is rejected as too attractive and Miles Teller is viewed as a better candidate. — Mallory Rubin
Jacob Elordi and Paul Mescal are rejected as too attractive for the desired contrast; Elordi’s height is also noted. — Bill Simmons
A producer identified in the transcript as Linda Oakes describes Harrelson’s appeal to women as both adorable and adventurous; the name remains uncertain. — Bill Simmons
Rory Culkin is proposed before the Succession actor is corrected to Kieran; Jeremy Strong follows, but the age gap with Sweeney draws an objection.
Brad Pitt is favored over “Leo” (surname not spoken) for Gage because of his resemblance to and career association with Redford. — Bill Simmons
A hypothetical 1987 version might have used Costner, but his exceptional handsomeness is considered wrong for Ned’s particular magnetic desperation. — Mallory Rubin
Sydney Sweeney is proposed as Matty with strong support.
Lupita Nyong’o is an alternative Matty; an age objection is rebutted because the original characters seem older and established domestic life supports the con.
Nina van Pallandt replacing Hutton is proposed as an older but striking woman plausibly intoxicated by Julian. — Sean Fennessey
Christie remains a preferred Michelle, with her age making the senator marriage more convincing. — Bill Simmons
Lange is favored if casting younger; Glenn Close is another appealing option for a desirous senator’s wife and future erotic-thriller skill. — Sean Fennessey
A current remake considers Bernthal but doubts his age, proposes Miles Teller, and raises Glenn Powell while questioning his smirky quality. — Sean Fennessey
With two of the three already in the movie, Michael K. Williams wins by default, though the hosts do not want to add anyone; he could have been another prisoner on the plane, perhaps 'Osiris' in the imagined new version alongside Miles Teller, or the politically correct 2018 version of Johnny 23, an arsonist rather than a Bitcoin or blockchain guy.
At the top of the show the category is invoked: two of the three, 66%, are in this movie, which alone might make it a first-ballot Rewatchables Hall of Famer.
Dave Grusin's piano score; the name Mitch McDeere; the Cayman Islands as a locale; nineties Cruise; the cast as a whole; the Memphis setting; the foresight in casting future character actors
The soundtrack, controversial at the time, has aged the best: Dave Grusin's piano is a character in itself, adding humor, melancholy, romance and suspense, recurring in themes such as the guitar on Beale Street and the drive by the river, and it puts Grusin on the Who Won the Movie list; it is called one of the best scores of the last twenty-five years and was Oscar-nominated, though polarizing when released.
Mitch McDeere is a great name; the Cayman Islands have always aged well as a mysterious locale; nineties Cruise is a peak era, and the hosts miss having an actor you buy season tickets for, floating Emma Stone, Miles Teller, Damon and Leo.
The totality of the cast and the Memphis setting, an emptied, fading southern metropolis, have aged well; on rewatch Mitch and Abby are themselves idiosyncratic, a self-made striver and a more moneyed wife, which reads as a Clinton-era, sell-out-or-not story that David Rabe and Robert Towne were obsessed with.
The character-actor foresight has aged well: Dean Norris and Tobin Bell as the two assassins before Breaking Bad and Saw, Terry Kinney before Oz and Billions, and Margo Martindale as the secretary, classic Pollack casting where the eighteenth most important person is a great actor.
The discussion moves from instinctive opposition to conditional support for a modernized remake, while an unlabeled line about not watching remains rhetorically ambiguous; Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Ryan Coogler, legacy cameos, and NBA players are considered.
Blake Griffin and Kenya Barris are said to be involved, and Michael B. Jordan is immediately proposed for the Sidney Dean-type role.
A participant begins from hatred of remakes but reverses after considering the dated references and a version with roughly twenty-five percent more basketball.
Reversing the outsider dynamic through rural America and using Billy Hoyle Jr. are proposed. The Billy Hoyle Jr. idea first receives a negative reaction; Miles Teller is then named, followed by an apparent reversal back into the idea, but the unlabeled machine transcript does not establish which participant gives either reaction. — Chris Ryan
Kenya Barris writing and Michael B. Jordan in the Snipes-type role draw an explicit statement of support from a participant who identifies as anti-remake.
The adjacent phrases 'Completely in' and 'I'm not going to watch that movie' are preserved as an ambiguous unlabeled exchange; the machine transcript does not establish a distinct dissenting speaker. — Chris Ryan
Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes are expected to return as legacy characters, while the film's dated but rewatchable quality supports modernization even though online video makes a present-day hustle harder. — Chris Ryan
Miles Teller and Elgort are assessed for basketball ability as Billy Hoyle candidates; Elgort's dunking challenge is recalled, and the remake is expected to load pickup scenes with NBA cameos.
