Ok, cast a remake, here.

Johnny Weissmuller. Sure, I know what you're thinking...he's dead, but what they're doing these days with DNA and cloning,and all...If they made the movie, or the serials in the 40's, as they should have, he would have been perfect.He was the action hero of that period as the governor of CA was in his time.

I have always wished this had not been made as a camp flick, and had instead been something like and Indiana Jones style movie. Having read all the books when I was a kid, I had great ideas for casting if they had made it in the 60's.
Chuck Connors as Doc, Fess Parker as Renny and Lloyd Bochner as Ham. Oh well.

Ten years ago I would have agreed with the posters that suggested Dolph Lundgren, but what about the voice?
Also, casting a currenly popular young blonde as Pat Savage would be a great move.
I also agree with the poster who suggested Brad Garrett as Renny. And as for Doc? My current vote would go for Kevin Sorbo. At 6'3" he's close enough in height, and he's in good shape without being pumped. Just dye his hair blond.

Jeff Goldblum as Monk? You’re joking, right? Jeff’s about 6’5”, Monk’ supposed to be around 5’.

You’d have Monk towering over Renny (Ralph Fiennes is 6’ according to IMDB), who’s supposed to almost a giant.

I could see Jeff as Ham, but then you’d need actors who are about 7’ to play Renny and Doc.

I wouldn't necessarliy want a blond Doc, as many have posted. Just over a year now I've been reading the Nostalgia Ventures Doc reprints and I'm really into the original versions of Doc, including the discriptions written in the books. Hair of a bronze shade slightly darker than his skin. Since the info on a new Doc film is based off the Street and Smith cahracters, I hope the look is close to the original Street and Smith look, discription. My two cents.

Also, one of many things I've come to appreciate about the first Doc film is that Ron's hair is a cross between the popular 60-70's blond coloring, but a cut and look similar to the original pulps.

When the film was in pre-production, there was as request put out for any Doc material from the countries, areas the pre-release promos were sent to. This included original pulps. My guess is George Pal and crew may have been trying to come up with their own look, vibe, style for the film based off of info, images from original source material released in the 30's and 40's, up to comics that were released in the 70's from Marvel comics released shortly before production began.

I just watched a mess of films with Christian Bale. I believe he would make a nice Doc, but probably shouldn't cause he's now the Batman.

Peace!

Doc- Patrick Warburton


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