- Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice.
- Wow, that's a hit.
(mumbling)
Just like a little sexy.
(mumbling)
I would pay thousands of dollars to see that movie.
- I would love to see the trailer for it.
- Uh.
(whimsical music)
- Hello, and welcome to The Recast, my name is Cody Reiss.
- I'm Natasha Vaynblat.
- And today we are recasting Beetle Juice.
- Michael Keaton's so good as Beetle Juice,
I for a long time didn't even know it was Michael Keaton.
- [Cody] Yeah, what a cook.
Whenever I see a movie and the actors are acting like that
I just like think about like how did they get there?
Like did they go into an audition being like,
(mumbling)
Which is basically like what Keaton does.
Or was he normal and then like the director
was working with him and be like,
"All right, be like really gross."
- That's a great question.
- Yeah, does any?
Nobody, you guys probably don't, you don't, yeah.
- No one here was the casting director for that?
- No Tim Burton in here?
Oh, okay.
It's honestly hard to imagine anyone else in that role,
but do you wanna do the pick first, or should I?
- Go ahead.
- [Cody] Okay, so I decided to recast Beetle Juice,
who like we've been saying was originally played
by Michael Keaton.
- [Natasha] Yeah.
- [Cody] And I thought it could be fun
to have it played by Matthew McConaughey.
Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice.
(laughter)
- That's fun.
- [Cody] Instead of going like,
"All right, all right, all right."
And then he still has like some of the swagger,
like Beetle Juice is like
a desperate kinda salesman kind of.
- [Natasha] Uh huh.
I think yeah, he'd bring a more calm energy
to the whole thing.
- [Cody] Yeah.
- [Natasha] Put some bongos near him the whole time
where it's just like everyone relax,
I'm not gonna scare anybody.
- We don't need to scare.
- [Natasha] Yeah.
- I'm not that gross.
- Just like a little sexy.
- Yeah, 'cause nobody wants to (beep) Beetle Juice.
- I think Matthew McConaughey for a second,
you're like, "Well, I am dead, why not give it a go?"
- Though I don't think he is
explicitly offering sex in that movie.
- We can't fully tell.
And that's my pick, not the strongest thing I've ever said
but certainly not the worst.
- Yeah.
I think we should maybe take it
into a really different direction.
- [Cody] Okay.
- [Natasha] But still similar vibe.
- [Cody] Uh huh.
- [Natasha] Which is why I have picked Amy Sedaris.
- [Cody] Wow.
That's a great pick.
- Why not?
It can be, why not a woman right?
- I mean, it's 2010.
- [Natasha] Yeah, it's not.
(laughter)
- I think that Amy Sedaris is such a
delightful choice for that.
- [Natasha] Yeah.
- [Cody] Because she's such a cook, and like.
- [Natasha] And her Stranger's with Candy, like character.
- [Cody] That's what I was thinking, yeah.
- [Natasha] Feels almost Beetle Juice.
- [Cody] Very like, yeah.
- The thing kinda like.
- [Cody] Like lick-y.
- Yeah, lick-y gross, gross teeth.
- Like a booger.
- [Natasha] Yeah.
It's a human booger.
- She's like a human booger.
- And that is Beetle Juice in a nutshell.
- It really is, yeah.
That is like actually I think, a really awesome idea.
- [Natasha] Thank you.
- I think if there was a reboot of this movie.
- I think she would genuinely do a very good job.
- And I think that would sell,
and it would make a lot of sense.
- I think we have to do it.
- [Cody] Yeah.
I think that's a great call.
- [Natasha] Okay well great, so there's no discussion.
- No.
- [Natasha] Amy Sedaris.
- [Cody] And instead of Michael Keaton as Beetle Juice,
we've recast Amy Sedaris, congratulations.
- [Natasha] Mrs. Sedaris.
- [Cody] Mrs. Sedaris.
- [Natasha] Mrs?
Next we have Lydia.
Originally played by Winona Rider.
- [Cody] Right.
- [Natasha] Lydia is kind of our goth teen.
That character in our modern world has to be Billie Eilish.
Such good casting.
- [Cody] I will tell you what.
I don't know anything about Billie Eilish.
- Okay, but you know, you exist in this world?
- I kind of do, I honestly couldn't put a face to it.
- You're kidding.
- [Cody] I don't know.
- You couldn't put a face?
- No.
- She's like the most popular singer at the moment.
- Really?
- [Natasha] Billie Eilish is the classic goth teen
of the moment and her hair is green in the middle,
black on the sides, her current most popular music video
is she's this bird covered in oil
singing about heaven and hell.
- I'm sorry, you should've let me know before this
that you were choosing it and I would've done research.
- It's like I would have called and been like,
"Hey, do you know what a fork is?
Because we're gonna be using one at dinner."
That's what this feels like.
- I think I panicked on this one, if I'm being honest.
But I chose for Lydia, instead of Winona Rider,
I chose Fran Drescher.
She had a really iconic laugh that I feel pretty confident
in either of us remembering right now.
- No I think it's ha, ha.
- Ha, ha.
(imitating laughter)
- Okay.
- Anybody?
- Yeah, we'll stop, sorry.
- Yeah, okay.
- [Natasha] I think that's funny,
she's not a teenager at all.
- [Cody] No, at this point she's probably in her late 50's.
Or 60's maybe?
- During The Nanny she was a grown woman.
- She was a grown woman.
- Now it feels even stranger to cast her.
- Yeah, that's true.
I think knowing who Billie Eilish is.
- It would have helped.
- Yeah.
- But I think I can feel the confidence coming from you
and I actually love,
like I really enjoy seeing you that confident.
- Yeah, thank you.
- [Cody] And I think that we should go with that answer.
- [Natasha] I think so too.
- [Cody] Okay.
- [Natasha] Okay.
- [Cody] Cool, that was great call.
(laughter)
- [Natasha] Okay, so we're gonna do
our Adam and Barbara together,
just 'cause they are a couple,
very much a unit in this film.
- [Cody] Yeah.
- [Natasha] So Barbara is played by Geena Davis
and Adam is played by Alec Baldwin.
- [Cody] Right.
- [Natasha] So I selfishly put them together
because I cast them together.
- [Cody] Great.
- [Natasha] I think for our modern remake
the perfect duo would be Scarlett Johanson, and Adam Driver.
I just think it would be fun
to have them fighting the whole time.
- Yeah.
- You know like, and just like
Adam Driver's constantly punching the wall,
Scarlett Johanson's crying.
- [Cody] Yeah.
- [Natasha] I think it would be a wild twist.
- [Cody] It would be, 'cause basically we watched them
kind of struggle through this thing together
in the Beetle Juice movie.
- [Natasha] Right.
But in this, they're like we have to live apart.
- At each other's necks.
- Uh huh.
- It would be funny to just watch that same dynamic
be applied to Beetle Juice.
Yeah, okay.
For mine, doing Barbara and Adam together,
I will say I don't know why I chose this for Barbara,
in retrospect I must have been blacked out or something.
'Cause it didn't make a lot of sense.
But I like my Adam, so maybe we can find
some sort of crossover here.
- [Natasha] Sure.
- [Cody] For Barbara, I have, instead of Geema Davis,
I have Melissa Joan Hart.
I don't know where that came from.
- [Natasha] Is this a crush?
- [Cody] No, I used to watch the show with the cat and all.
- And now it's just kind of in your brain?
- Yeah.
- [Natasha] Okay.
- So good answer for me.
And then for Adam, I have a machine
that prints out Adam's lines
that Barbara then has to read and react to.
(upbeat music)
- [Natasha] That's funny.
- [Cody] But I don't know if we need to see
double time, Melissa Joan Hart.
But what if,
- What if it was Scarlett Johanson?
- Yeah, but I feel like Adam Driver's more compelling.
- Than Scarlett Johanson?
And we did have this debate outside of this show.
That's true, we did talk about that.
- I think, so what if it was 2020.
- Yeah, why not?
- And the couple was a man and a machine
that prints out another man's lines
for the man to react to?
- That's nice.
It's like the movie Her inside of Beetle Juice.
- [Cody] Yeah.
That's right.
But they could still have the same dynamic
you're talking about where
they're getting in fights all the time.
- Oh, I would love that.
Whoa, because Scarlett Johanson was the voice in Her.
- [Cody] That's right.
- Wow.
This is, honestly everybody gets a party.
In our Beetle Juice, if you've ever been in a movie,
you get to be in Beetle Juice.
- Welcome on in.
- Yeah.
- [Cody] So, just so we have this correct.
Instead of Geena Davis as the role of Barbara,
we have Adam Driver.
- [Natasha] Correct, Adam Driver is Barbara.
- [Cody] And instead of Adam played by Alec Baldwin,
we have a machine that prints out Adam's lines
that Barbara then has to react to.
- [Natasha] And when we say "machine"
we mean like an 80's style, kind of like,
(imitating robots)
And it's got, the paper has like
the punch holes on the side.
- [Cody] Yeah, and then each paper is one line.
- Oh, that's great.
So it takes forever.
- Yeah.
- [Natasha] To print out.
- Yeah.
- That's really fun.
- [Cody] I think that's fun too.
- That's beautiful.
- Okay, so let's review.
- Yeah, let's see what we got.
- I really like this movie, I gotta tell you.
- I think it's gonna be good.
- [Natasha] So Beetle Juice,
originally played by Michael Keaton,
we have now decided is going to played by Amy Sedaris.
- [Cody] That's right.
- [Natasha] Lydia, originally played by Winona Rider.
Do you remember who we've decided?
- [Cody] It's now being played
by pop superstar, Billie Eilish.
- [Natasha] Beautiful.
Really well done.
- [Cody] And then we've combo-d Barbara and Adam,
originally played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin,
and we have turned that into
Barbara being played by Adam Driver,
and Adam being played by an 80's machine
that prints out one line at a time.
- [Natasha] Barbara, played by Adam,
would then read and respond to.
- [Cody] Yes.
- [Natasha] And we would definitely get
Tim Burton back for this.
- Tim Burton would probably do this pro bono.
- Oh, for sure.
- [Cody] He would be like all over this.
- We'd say, "Tim, get out of here."
And he'd be like, "Please."
- [Cody] And we'd be like,
"We already got a bunch of directors,
we got four directors locked down for this already."
And Tim would be begging, knocking at our doors.
- It would be embarrassing.
- [Cody] Yeah, he would kind of be.
In the end we take him.
But it would only be out of pity.
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