Stories by @rwhite18

Barry Keoghan Recast

Barry Keoghan is an Irish actor and BAFTA Award winner who has been nominated for two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and was nominated for a BAFTA for his supporting role in Calm with Horses. Keoghan also played the “heartless cat killer” Wayne in the RTÉ drama Love/Hate from 2010–2014.

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (2005)

Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters.

Michael Fassbender Recast

Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor who has been nominated for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, and four BAFTAs. He first appeared on screen in the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers as Burton Christenson. Fassbender has also appeared in several X-Men movies, playing a younger version of Ian McKellen's character in the earlier trilogy and reprising his role as Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).

Daniel Craig Recast

Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor who gained international fame for his portrayal of James Bond in five films: Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time to Die. He once told a US cinemagoer who asked if he looked like Daniel Craig that he didn't. Craig's next project is Queer, a romantic period drama by Luca Guadagnino about an American expat in Mexico City.

Harry Dean Stanton Recast

Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor with a career spanning over six decades. He appeared in more than 100 films and 50 television shows, including Zane Grey Theater, Gunsmoke, Cool Hand Luke, and Kelly's Heroes. Known for his laid-back acting style, Stanton played supporting roles and memorable characters like Bud, a philosophical repo man in Repo Man (1984), and Jack Walsh, a single father in Pretty in Pink (1986).

Charmed (UK Version)

A group of sisters discover they are witches. Luckily for the world, they're of the good variety. Banding together in their ancestral home in San Francisco, they work together to fight evil, with each having a specific special power. Although outwardly they are average women, with jobs, relationships and friends, they are also powerful witches, but when they work together, their powers are enhanced. As The Charmed Ones, their destiny is to protect innocents from evil.

Emma Stone Recast

Emma Stone is an American actress who aspired to an acting career from an early age

Margot Robbie Recast

Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and six BAFTAs. She first gained fame for her role in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, but almost quit acting after an unpleasant experience. Robbie is known for her roles as Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe films, starting with Suicide Squad (2016), and Tonya Harding in the 2017 biopic I, Tonya.

Laurence Fishburne Recast

Laurence John Fishburne III is an American actor, producer, director, and playwright. Fishburne is famous for his roles as Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy (1999–2003), Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in Apocalypse Now (1979), and Nelson Mandela in the 2017 miniseries Madiba. He also played Jason "Furious" Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991) and "The Bowery King" in the John Wick series (2017–present).

Russell Crowe Recast

Russell Ira Crowe is a New Zealand-born Australian actor and director known for his intensity and good looks. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001 for his role in Gladiator, which established his fame in the United States. He also played Jor-El in Man of Steel (2013). Crowe has also won two Golden Globes and a British Academy Film Award. He has two sons with his wife, Australian singer and actress Danielle Spencer.

Daniel Day-Lewis Recast

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is a British actor and Irish citizen known for his intense on-screen presence and thorough off-screen role preparation. Born in London, he has won three Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Some consider him one of cinema's greatest actors

Philip Seymour Hoffman Recast

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014) was an American actor, director, and producer who made his screen debut on the police procedural Law & Order in 1991

Tom Cruise Recast

Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer

Josh O'Connor Recast

Joshua O'Connor is a British actor. After training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he had supporting roles in television series such as Doctor Who in 2013 and Peaky Blinders in 2014. From 2016 to 2019 he had a major role portraying Larry Durrell in ITV's The Durrells.

Gone Girl (2004)

In Carthage, Mo., former New York-based writer Nick Dunne and his glamorous wife Amy present a portrait of a blissful marriage to the public; when Amy goes missing on the couple's fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance; the resulting police pressure and media frenzy cause the Dunnes' image of a happy union to crumble, leading to tantalizing questions about who Nick and Amy truly are.

Twisters (Japanese Cast)

Haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado, Kate Cooper gets lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi, to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. She soon crosses paths with Tyler Owens, a charming but reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures. As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma.

The Wailing (American Cast)

Villagers investigate a mysterious new stranger and the killings that arrive with him. There is mass hysteria as loved ones are taken and killed.

Paul Mescal Recast

Paul Colm Michael Mescal is an Irish actor born in Maynooth, County Kildare in 1996. He studied acting at The Lir Academy and performed in Dublin theaters before his breakout role in the 2020 miniseries Normal People. His portrayal of Connell Waldron earned him a BAFTA TV Award and an Emmy nomination. Mescal has also appeared in the films Aftersun, where he played an anxious single father, and God's Creatures, where he played a man accused of sexual assault

Cailee Spaeny Recast

Cailee Spaeny is an American actress and singer who has appeared in film, television, and theater. She first gained recognition for her roles in the science fiction film Pacific Rim Uprising and the neo-noir Bad Times at the El Royale. She also had roles in the miniseries Devs and Mare of Easttown

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