Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge [1], where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!
I'm glad to see everyone shared in my enthusiasm [2] for one of my favorite movies out of the '90s, Empire Records! These are really fun characters to recast and I'm sure young actors in Hollywood would die for a part in a movie like this.
I liked that both daisydidi [3] and lookwhatimade [4] suggested Mandy Moore for the character Liv Tyler played, Corey. Mandy is someone I could see in an independent record store, yet she gives off a "once I'm done here I'm off to the Ivy league" vibe.
I was also totally thrilled to see Olivia Thirlby's name pop up many times; I think she'd be right at home in a movie like this.
For the boys, I liked Whip's [5] idea for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play A.J. (he's another one of those actors whose name makes me smile), and my friend Citizen's [6] pick for A.J., Michael Rady (a.k.a. the cutie from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants [7] and now Swingtown [8]), is great too.
In the end, I went with the cast that's hard to argue with: Congrats to Mary_Sofi [9]!
To see who she chose, along with a new cast photo, .
Mary_Sofi's cast list:
Corey — Nikki Reed
A.J. — Adam Brody
Gina — Blake Lively
Debra — Ellen Page
Lucas - Josh Gad
Mark - Andy Samberg
