If you could remake Blazing Saddles.....who would play the parts?

Cleavon Little (Black Bart)>

Gene Wilder (Jim)>

Harvey Korman (Hedley Lamarr)>

Madeline Kahn (Lili Von Shtupp)>

Mel Brooks (Governor William J. Lepotomane)>

Alex Karras (Mongo)>

my picks

Don Cheadle

Jim Carrey

Michael Caine

Kim Cattrall

Burt Reynolds

Mike Golic

 

It's moot because there's no way this movie passes screenings today.

But I like your list, Chef.

 

Black Bart> Snoop Dogg

Jim> Matthew McConaughey

Hedley Lamarr> Billy Bob Thornton

Lili Von Shtupp> Nicole Kidman

Governor William J. Lepotomane> Judd Hirsch

Mongo> Dwayne Johnson

 

I would pay good money to hear Don Cheadle say "Where all the white women at?"

 

Also my thought.

 

An African American Mongo makes sense?

 

Please delete this thread. If we talk about it, they'll remake it and bastardize it like they did Bad News Bears

 

Excellent point. I can see the appeal of playing the casting game, but I would never want to see them actually remake movie.

 

Dave Chappelle as Black Bart?

Here's an interesting showbiz nugget ... Mel Brooks wrote that part with Richard Pryor in mind, but the studio didn't think he was a big enough star to carry the movie. So instead they got Cleavon Little, who by 1981 was guest-starring on The Love Boat and Fantasy Island.

 

I agree as well.

Blazing Saddles is one of my top 5 favorites, but would never want to see it re-made.

also agree with mikey; no way in hell does this pass screen.

 

In fact, Pryor is credited as one of the writers in the opening credits.

 

This is a true statement.