Who would you cast in a re-make?

I'm not a fan of remakes; rather a concept needs to be rethought and a new direction can accommodate an entirely different sort of cast. In this case, I recently watched a Gay Porn version made as an experimental film in 1974 called "Adam & Yves", which uses the "strangers in an apartment" motif as its jumping off point, both roles taken by males.

When Bertolucci first announced this project following "The Conformist", his first choices for the roles were an encore from that film: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dominique Sanda. Obviously he changed the script's arc, making the hero American in ultimately coming up with the Brando version we all know. But that indicates the flexibility one has to envision.

During this same time period, my favorite director Ken Russell was planning his film "Savage Messiah" on the British sculptor, as an older woman/young man relationship and announced John McEnery as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Jean Moreau as his friend. He ultimately went the unknown route for the younger character with Scott Antony (who I thought did a great job) and cast my favorite British actress Dorothy Tutin (RIP) in the Moreau role, giving the great stage actress Tutin her best movie role of her career. Quite a different cast. Tutin unfortunately is not famous to film buffs probably because she never "went Hollywood", staying in England for her entire career in plays, film and TV.