I wouldn't make a remake of this movie. It's a classic and it shouldn't be remade. I suppose if I had to, though, I'd cast Christian Bale as Joker and Denzel Washington as Noah.
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Balwin and Fishburne already did Fled

Clint Eastwood and Morgan freeman.
Only they escape from a retirement home
And there shoelaces somehow got tied together.
And its no longer johnny potatoes,
its johnny applesauce.
In other words,
How can anyone even consider remaking this movie.
its to great.

Bjork and Maya Angelou

Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O'Donnell
Queen Latifa and Hellen Miren
Arnold Schwartzenegger and Michael Clark Duncan
Paul Rubens and Tracy Morgan
Lewis Black and Flavor Flav
Snoop Dog and Eminem
Dave Chappelle and Hugh Grant
Whitney Huston and Britney Spears
Dr Dre and Jack Black
James Earl Jones and Jeff Goldblum
Ian McKellen and L'il John

Now there's a movie I'd pay to see.
'I'll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.'

As one poster mentioned above, the black-white pair wouldn't be that exiting today. It should rather be rewritten for WHITE and MUSLIM (not black, but arab)characters.

okay, I know that's off the wall but think about it. I'm just not sure Denis Leary can pull off a southern accent. Do they have chain gangs in New England? Maybe it would be interesting to have the white guy be from the north and have the black guy be poor, rural and southern and wise to the ways of the south and the white guy has to depend on him to know where the cultural 'buttons' are. just a thought.

As for me, I can't tell the difference between Denzel Washington and Sidney Poitier. I was watching "In the Heat of the Night" and I kept thinking it was Denzel. I had a hard time believing that it was a 40 year old movie.
Frankly, in this film, many scenes, I thought that Tony Curtis looked like DeForrest Kelley. When they were fighting, for a few moments, I thought that I was watching Star Trek, and Bones was on some barren alien planet, fighting with some adversary.

Will Smith and Russell Crow

Denzel Washington and Brad Pitt. Those two are my picks.

This is a movie that should not be remade, not because it isn't a good movie but simply because a remake would ruin the merit of the movie. Moreover, the movie is very much a period movie. The theme of racism still translates today but the movie today is not "revolutionary" as it was back in 1958. Mostly though I think a remake would take away from the merit of the film. I'm not saying that a good remake of this movie couldn't be made but it would take a really talented director to remake it in the style of the 1950's. By this I mean the director would need to keep the movie clean, i.e. no addition of any kind of a nude scene. I'm sure that an addition of swearing wouldn't take from the movie too much and might help the film in relating to today's modern audience but proper discretion would need to be taken. Also, I'm sure some violence or added gore could be done but again with proper discretion. Granted neither the violence nor the swearing is needed but it seems that it's what the populace wants in their movies nowadays. My own personal opinion is that it should be left alone. The only thing that should be done to it, and this is simply to gain it some attention is to re-release the movie and maybe colorize it.

laurence fishburne and stephen baldwin.

Terrence Howard and Joshua Jackson

They should get Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen to do it, because it would give me 2 more reasons not to watch it.

They already did do a remake! (1996's "Fled" w/ Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Stephen Baldwin (The Flintstones Go to Viva Rock Vegas) as the convicts and Will Patton (Remember the Titans) as the sheriff. They changed the characters and locales around to make a pretty rehased film.

First off, this film should NEVER be "re-made".
However, in the event that Hollywhore should be so lame as to attempt a "re-make", then I would recommend the following casting for the lead roles:
Edward Norton (white guy)
Chris Rock (non-white guy)
Let's just hope this NEVER happens. Christ.

Terrence Howard and Joquin Phoenix

Christopher Walken and John Witherspoon. It would be art.
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." -H.L. Mencken

HA! Good one. I love it! And let's throw in Rick Moranis as a nasty Southern sheriff, too!
Hebibius

that would be comedy

A super comedy it would be

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