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If you were to remake this what would your cast be like?


mine is:

Cher-Chloe Grace Moretz (mostly because she has silverstones lips and her acting is amazing)or Ashley Benson

Josh-Ansel Elgort (mainly because of the chemistry between him and moretz in carrie)

Dionne-Keke Palmer

Tai-Lucy Hale

Amber-Sasha Pieterse

Travis-I don't really know haha

Elton-Tyler Posey

Mr. Hall- Don't know

mrs. Geist- Michelle Pfeiffer

Christian-Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Sounds like the cast of PLL.

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Except they shouldn't remake this.

Break my heart
for what breaks Yours

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Ditto that they should NEVER remake this movie.

It is classic and cannot be improved upon. Why doesn't Hollywood start remaking, and tweaking, movies that are generally considered to be terrible?

Or just stick to ripping things off?

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Technically, it would be another remake of Jane Austen's Emma.

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Cher - Ashley Benson
Deon - Lucy Hale
Tai - Janel Parrish
Amber - Troian Bellisario

Josh - Keegan Allen
Christian - Cody Christian
Elton - Ian Harding
Travis - Tyler Blackburn

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Except they shouldn't remake this.


This. Theres no way they could top it anyway.

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I don't think they should remake this movie - it's a classic and a remake would never capture its spirit. I'd hope for a sequel with Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd and Stacey Dash, 20 years after the first one.

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Agreed on NEVER remaking this. It's already so perfect as is and nobody could ever do it better. This is definitely a film from its time. The clothes, the hair, the styles, the music, the slang. All very 90's and I just couldn't see any of it being as well done in the 21st century.

But I really am not a fan on any of these choices.

First of all, Joseph Gordon Levitt as Christian?! Really?! He is in his early 30's for god sake and an established leading man. Why would he be playing a supporting role HIGH SCHOOL AGE kid? Come on! He doesn't even look like a teenager, at all. Terrible choice, sorry.

Chloe Grace I just can't see playing a ditz. Amazing actress, absolutely. But she is a serious up and comer. Wouldn't be caught dead playing a ditzy air-head like Cher.

Michelle Pfeiffer is way too gorgeous (even at her age) to play somebody as frumpy and dorky as Miss Geist.

And the appeal of B. Murph (RIP) as Tai was that she wasn't super gorgeous, especially back in the 90's. She could be dressed up to look like a skater tomboy who'd "never had straight friends before" and didn't wear make-up or do her hair. Lucy Hale is way too glamorous (even with out make-up/hair) to be believable as Tai pre-Cher's makeover. And I highly doubt she can do a Boston accent. LOL.

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I'm kind of surprised that nobody suggested Ariana Grande as Tai in a hypothetical Clueless remake:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3957278/board/flat/234286474?p=1

http://cheezburger.com/6713206016

https://www.facebook.com/BrittanyMurphyOM/posts/710951772293591?commen t_id=711119422276826&offset=0&total_comments=23

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What about Murrayy??
And aside from Keke Palmer, I don't really care for you list. lol.
JGL is not the right cast as Christian.
But, I agree with the others. This movie is PERFECT!

"Do you even remember what you came here to find?"

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JG-L's far too old. Give the part to a young actor.

"My car's outside."
"Naturally."

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Chloe Grace Moretz is great but she just has the wrong vibe for this I think

Keke Palmer seems way off to me

not sure Luci Hale is a Tai

Pfeiffer was so never a Geist type character I just can't imagine that casting

actually let's just forget the whole thing
I don't think this should be remade.

If forced maybe, wow this is tricky, not quite as familiar with the really young actors and they seem cast a different sort these days for the most than in years past, most seem so slick and produced and the same or just all the wrong vibe, imaging the 1990 cast (another thread) was so much easier, but a few of these are pretty good I think and a few a bit of a reach:

Cher - Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Jane Levy (she could actually work for Tai too in a way), Emma Roberts (if she could project the right sweet undercurrent enough, she almost feels too locked into a top it girl vibe though for the part perhaps), Emma Watson

Dionne - Zendaya Coleman

Tai - Vanessa Hudgens

Murray - Tequan Richmond?

Josh - man I don't know, Josh Hutcherson

Travis - Ben McKenzie if they made it when the O.C. was on

and yeah I will give up
and let this never be remade

maybe something in this style for today, it's own movie, Heckerling made an early 80s, mid-90s and can make a late 2010s?


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