- What the hell's going on?

- The original cast was great.

- Do you imagine it as a stoner comedy?

- It's a big advertisement for trench coats.

- (whirs)

- Such a good choice.

- I'm gonna take the blue pill.

- Wow, I'm really proud of us.

- Yeah, me too.

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- Hi, welcome to the Recast.

I'm Natasha Vaynblat.

- And I'm Cody Reiss.

- And today, we are talking about The Matrix.

- Wow.

- One of my favorite movies.

- Truly one of your favorite movies?

- Truly, I remember where I was when I saw it

and I remember seeing it and being like,

does everyone else know that this could be a possibility?

- Wow, you understood it that much?

- Yeah.

- I feel like when I first saw The Matrix I was like,

"What the hell is going on?"

They're plugged into machines here?

I'm still trying

to wrap my head around it. - Wow,

well, I'm really glad that we are doing this together.

So, it'll be really fun.

- I'm hoping by the end of this to kind of understand

what The Matrix is about,

at the very least. - Okay, good.

The original cast was great.

- [Cody] Beautiful, one of

the best casts. - Truly perfect.

We're not saying

it wasn't fantastic. - Love 'em.

- But if we had to recast, we would.

- And we would.

And we can. - And we have some ideas.

- And we're about to.

We've got some ideas.

(laughing)

Locked and loaded for you all.

- [Natasha] So, first let's start with Neo.

- Neo, great.

So, Neo originally played by Keanu Reeves.

I have recast it as Christopher Walken.

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I think that Christopher Walken

has a distinct way of talking that I think would

be pretty fun in that movie.

The red pill is...

- [Natasha] That's true.

- One of the options that you don't know

what's gonna happen yet.

I honestly just think that his was of speaking

would really heighten the drama.

I'm gonna take the blue pill.

- Oh, okay.

- There's two pills.

- That sounds like Marlon Brando a little bit.

- There's two pills here.

(laughing)

- Okay, you wanna hear mine?

- I would love to hear what your counterproposal is.

- Okay, so if we're gonna redo it,

let's do it in a different direction.

- [Cory] Sure.

- Let's think what could be a different tone?

- [Cody] Yeah, so it's completely different.

- So, I was like, let's put Seth Rogan as Neo.

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Just his whole thing is like, "Huh? Okay?"

- "Okay, ha, ha, ha, ha."

He makes it louder than

it needs to be. - That's good.

I think he'd be so funny.

- Do you think he's wakey and bakey

throughout the movie? - For sure.

- [Cody] Where he's like, "I'm too high

for this decision, Morpheus."

- [Natasha] Or I think whenever

he has to make a big decision,

he just smokes up a little bit.

- [Cody] Takes a little bong

or whatever. - Overall, it's just.

I mean, Neo already I feel like is pretty reserved

in the film but this way it's just like

there's just a little more joie de vivre.

- Do you imagine it as a stoner comedy

or it's the same kind of...

- Wow.

Well, based on my other picks,

I wouldn't say full stoner comedy,

but I think it has elements.

- Great.

I like that.

I think I actually prefer that to Christopher Walken.

- I think I prefer Christopher Walken.

- [Cody] Oh, really?

- Let's do Seth Rogan,

that's fun. - Okay, yeah.

That's great.

I think that's good.

- [Natasha] Okay, so Trinity.

Tough gal.

- [Cody] Super tough.

One of the toughest around.

- Yeah, sleek hair, no nonsense.

I would say that I think it would be cool

if we instead of Carrie-Anne Moss

had Helen Mirin.

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I think it'd be cool, 'cause she's older.

- Yeah, that's true.

- Why not?

Have an older lady be Trinity.

Why's gotta be an equally-same-age lady?

- Yeah.

I'll tell you what.

I don't really know a lot about Helen Mirin.

(laughing)

- [Natasha] She's British.

She's very hot.

- [Cody] That's cool.

- And I think she brings a gravitas to the role.

I also think of Seth Rogan and Helen Mirin

is pretty funny as a duo.

- That is a pretty funny odd couple, yeah.

Okay, I hear that.

I also read Trinity character as pretty stern,

pretty straight-to-the-point

and with that in mind,

I thought another person that could really nail

that role without tweaking it really too much

is Ruth Bader-Ginsberg.

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- That's a really, really good choice.

- Thank you, I imagine her.

- I like that we both went older woman.

- Yeah, which I think is good.

- I respect that.

- And I think Hollywood if you're watching,

maybe take note.

(laughing)

- Yeah, maybe wake up.

- Maybe wake up a little bit.

- Okay, Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, tough lady.

- Tough lady, and there's always hard decisions

they're makin' throughout the movie.

There's times that when they're gonna give up

and I imagine her cloak and gavel.

- A very straight down the middle part

just like Trinity.

Hair sleek back.

- [Cody] Very locked down.

- But then she's got the adorable little collar.

- Exactly and there's

I think maybe no collars in the movie as it is now.

- [Natasha] We'll put a collar in there.

But the black robe is similar

to a trench coat. - It is, yeah.

- [Natasha] The outfit is very similar.

- [Cody] That's amazing.

- That's such a good choice. - Thank you.

- I love that so much.

- Yeah, just travelin' around being like, "No."

- Oh, she should keep the gavel.

- Of course, yeah.

- And she fights them

with the gavel. - She fights with the gavel

and then when there's an important decision

she gets to slam it down

and make it happen. - Right.

- So, I'm sensing you kind of are...

- 100%, forget Helen Mirin. - Okay, cool.

Sweet.

So, we're taking RBG as Trinity.

- [Natasha] Great choice. - And I think a great choice.

- [Cody] Beautiful choice.

- [Natasha] Wow, I'm really proud of us.

- [Cody] Yeah, me too.

- [Natasha] Okay, I really like my Morpheus choice.

- [Cody] Oh my, God, good.

Please.

- [Natasha] So, Lawrence Fishburn

is our original Morpheus.

- [Cody] He crushed it.

- [Natasha] Stoic, serious.

Very powerful.

He has that scene where he presents Neo

with the two pills.

"Do you wanna take the red pill or the blue pill?"

- [Cody] Exactly.

- [Natasha] But I think, why not have

a more delightful spin to the movie.

- [Cody] Okay, that sounds nice.

- [Natasha] Which is why I think we should recast Morpheus

as Rowan Atkinson.

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- Wow.

Mr. B. himself.

- And he's got the two pills.

- And he sneezes and one of them falls on the ground.

He's like, "Oh, I'm so sorry."

- And he's messed them up. - He tries

to pick it up and he bonks into one of the machines

and knocks out the guy.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, that's funny.

- It would be so funny.

- It would turn it into a comedy of errors,

which is kind of his thing, right?

- [Natasha] Yeah, he's battling

the big robot machines

but he doesn't even know that they're the bad guys.

(laughing)

He thinks that they're just vacuums or something.

- Hey, can you imagine him still trying

to have the levity of Morpheus?

- I think everyone respects him.

(laughing)

- Everyone respects the shit out of him.

- And it's like he's incredible

but always he's just like (chirps).

Or just accidentally taking pills.

- That's so funny.

(laughing)

And I think that's really good.

Well, my choice for Morpheus was Nick Cage.

I like Nick Cage as an actor.

I think he's so funny.

But I don't even know if I feel like defending him

in the face of Mr. Bean 'cause I think that's

kind of the perfect choice. - Yeah, it's so good.

So, we've decided Morpheus is gonna be recast

as Rowan Atkinson.

- [Cody] Yeah, I think that's right.

Well, I really like my Agent Smith.

So, maybe I'll go ahead and launch into that.

Agent Smith, he's out to get Neo at all costs.

His famous thing is that whenever he finds Neo,

whose name is Neo Anderson.

- [Natasha] Mr. Anderson, where is that from?

- Whereas, Neo Anderson does not sound right.

- Yeah, I think we're thinking of Louie Anderson.

- No.

Wow.

Okay.

- Is that...

(laughing)

Oh, no.

- Well, my choice for Agent Smith originally played

by Hugo Weaving is Louie Anderson.

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(laughing)

So, which instead of every time he does, "Mr. Anderson,"

he would just say his name which is Louie Anderson to Neo.

There's so many of 'em all the time

where it'll be a thing where it's like,

wow there's a shit load of Agent Smithers.

And if they were all Louie Anderson,

that would be awesome.

- [Natasha] That would be really funny.

- There was 20 Louie Anderson's being like,

"Louie Anderson, Louie Anderson, Anderson."

(laughing)

- That's very good.

My thinking was Agent Smith,

he moves around a lot. - Yes, certainly.

- [Natasha] He's a big physical comedy guy.

So, I would say Keegan-Michael Key is my choice.

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- [Cody] That's fun, I love Keegan-Michael Key.