Remake a movie, keep one actor, everyone else is a muppet

[Biffer]

You’ve probably seen this before, but let’s have a go.

Remake a famous movie, replace all the actors with muppets, except one, who has to play it completely straight.

Die Hard, keep Alan Rickman
Fozzie instead of Bruce Willis. Kermit as an FBI man, etc.

[fishfoodie]

Scarface

Pfeiffer stays as Elvira, but Animal plays Tony, Fozy is Manny, Miss Piggy is Gina*, & the Swedish Chef is the Colombian drug heist guy.

* a considerable upgrade in actor

[sockwithaticket]

Star Wars: A New Hope, Alec Guiness stays as Obi-Wan. Given how generally disdainful he was of the whole thing I imagine it'd drive him nuts to do it surrounded by muppets and that tickles the sadist in me.

[Niegs]

Kelly's Heroes ... torn between keeping Eastwood as the straight main and Animal for Oddball, or keep Sutherland and give Kermit the straight man leader role?

KERMIT'S HEROES: Cast

Kermit replaces Clint Eastwood - Kelly
Rowlf replaces Telly Savalas - Big Joe
Fozzy Bear replaces Don Rickles - Crapgame
Statler and Waldorf replace Carroll O'Connor - General Colt
DONALD SUTHERLAND as Oddball
Animal replaces Gavin MacLeod - Moriarty
Gonzo replaces Stuart Margolin - Little Joe
Bunson replaces Jeff Morris - Cowboy
Beaker replaces Harry Dean Stanton - Willard
Scooter replaces Dick Balduzzi - Fisher
Robin the Frog replaces Gene Collins - Babra
Piggy replaces Len Lesser - Bellamy (in an elevated role as officer in charge of the engineers who has to enlist the band to help replace the bridge - has to match wits with Oddball and his oddballs). Her engineers are all frogs and pigs and rats.

Rest of The Electric Mayham are in Oddball's tank platoon. Lew Zealand, Swedish Chef, Crazy Harry play other members of Kermit's platoon.

Sam the Eagle plays the German tank commander

[Raggs]

The matrix, keep Lawrence Fishbourne (sp?).

[Sandstorm]

Castaway
Keep Wilson, Kermit can play Tom Hanks.

[Hal Jordan]

LA Confidential, keep James Cromwell. It would be bleak as fuck.

Since he starred the best Muppet film ever, Muppet Treasure Island (hell, a flat out great film), keep Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the rest of them are Muppets.

[Biffer]

One of my favourite niche ones is Local Hero, you could keep any one of Peter Reigert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton McKay, Peter Capaldi or Denis Lawson and it'd be fucking awesome.

Jenny Agutter's role would obviously be played by Miss Piggy.

[Hellraiser]

American Psycho. Everyone but Bale is a muppet.

[PornDog]

Kelly's Heroes ... torn between keeping Eastwood as the straight main and Animal for Oddball, or keep Sutherland and give Kermit the straight man leader role?

KERMIT'S HEROES: Cast

Kermit replaces Clint Eastwood - Kelly
Rowlf replaces Telly Savalas - Big Joe
Fozzy Bear replaces Don Rickles - Crapgame
Statler and Waldorf replace Carroll O'Connor - General Colt
DONALD SUTHERLAND as Oddball
Animal replaces Gavin MacLeod - Moriarty
Gonzo replaces Stuart Margolin - Little Joe
Bunson replaces Jeff Morris - Cowboy
Beaker replaces Harry Dean Stanton - Willard
Scooter replaces Dick Balduzzi - Fisher
Robin the Frog replaces Gene Collins - Babra
Piggy replaces Len Lesser - Bellamy (in an elevated role as officer in charge of the engineers who has to enlist the band to help replace the bridge - has to match wits with Oddball and his oddballs). Her engineers are all frogs and pigs and rats.

Rest of The Electric Mayham are in Oddball's tank platoon. Lew Zealand, Swedish Chef, Crazy Harry play other members of Kermit's platoon.

Sam the Eagle plays the German tank commander

You put some thought into that one

[Thor Sedan]

Saving Private Ryan - keep Matt Damon

Captain Miller replace Tom Hanks with Kermit
Private Reiben replace Ed Burns with Sam Eagle
Mike Hovath replace Tom Sizemore with Sweetums
Private Jackson replace Barry Pepper with Lew Zeeland
Private Mellish replace Adam Goldberg with Fozzie Bear
Corporal Upham replace Jeremy Davies with Gonzo
Medic Wade replace Giovanni Ribisi with Swedish Chef
Private Caparzo replace Vin Diesel with Link Hogthrob

The storming the beach scene with muppets flying everywhere would simultaneously be hilarious and brutal.

[sturginho]

Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan

Keep DeForest Kelly as Bones, Kermit is Spock

[Biffer]

The Untouchables.

Keep Robert de Niro
Replace Kevin Costner with Beaker as Eliot Ness
Replace Andy Garcia withRolph as George Stone
Replace Sean Connery with Fozzy as Jim Malone
Replace Charles Martin Smith with Kermit as Oscar Wallace
Replace Billy Drago with Gonzo as Frank Nitti

I have the scene in my head where Malone is shot, Beaker cradling a dying Fozzie, Fozzie gasping

'What are you prepared to do?'



'meep'

[Sandstorm]

The Untouchables.

Keep Robert de Niro
Replace Kevin Costner with Beaker as Eliot Ness
Replace Andy Garcia withRolph as George Stone
Replace Sean Connery with Fozzy as Jim Malone
Replace Charles Martin Smith with Kermit as Oscar Wallace
Replace Billy Drago with Gonzo as Frank Nitti

I have the scene in my head where Malone is shot, Beaker cradling a dying Fozzie, Fozzie gasping

'What are you prepared to do?'



'meep'

Love it

[Punter15]

ZULU

Keep Michael Caine, all the Zulu are chickens.


In fact, any Caine film works with the exception of Blame It on Rio (because, you know, boobs).

[Niegs]

The Untouchables.

Keep Robert de Niro
Replace Kevin Costner with Beaker as Eliot Ness
Replace Andy Garcia withRolph as George Stone
Replace Sean Connery with Fozzy as Jim Malone
Replace Charles Martin Smith with Kermit as Oscar Wallace
Replace Billy Drago with Gonzo as Frank Nitti

I have the scene in my head where Malone is shot, Beaker cradling a dying Fozzie, Fozzie gasping

'What are you prepared to do?'



'meep'

Love it

I don't ...

At the very least...




or

[Biffer]

ZULU

Keep Michael Caine, all the Zulu are chickens.


In fact, any Caine film works with the exception of Blame It on Rio (because, you know, boobs).

Ichael Caine really loves The Muppet Christmas Carol. There are loads of interviews where he talks about it, how much fun it was, how lovely everyone was, and how proud of it he is.

He also says that the key was for him, as the only human, to treat it as a completely straight role, never acknowledging that everyone else was a muppet. And he’s absolutely right.

[Biffer]

The Untouchables.

Keep Robert de Niro
Replace Kevin Costner with Beaker as Eliot Ness
Replace Andy Garcia withRolph as George Stone
Replace Sean Connery with Fozzy as Jim Malone
Replace Charles Martin Smith with Kermit as Oscar Wallace
Replace Billy Drago with Gonzo as Frank Nitti

I have the scene in my head where Malone is shot, Beaker cradling a dying Fozzie, Fozzie gasping

'What are you prepared to do?'



'meep'

Love it

I don't ...

At the very least...




or

Nah, I’m still for Kermit. Puffing on his pipe while he does the books, then screaming away pumping the shotgun on the Canadian border. That switch from mild accountant to gun toting law officer works really well with Kermit.

[Niegs]

Love it

I don't ...

At the very least...




or

Nah, I’m still for Kermit. Puffing on his pipe while he does the books, then screaming away pumping the shotgun on the Canadian border. That switch from mild accountant to gun toting law officer works really well with Kermit.

Heh, that's fair! Fun game, this. :)