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It's been nearly a year since the last Slate summer-movie reader contest, in which contestants sent in their ideas for menacing action-movie one-liners ("Veni, vidi, vici, sugarplum."). The Incredible Hulk's curious status as a franchise reboot raises an obvious question: What blockbuster made in the last five years would you remake now, how would you cast it, and why? I'll dig through the office storage room for an appropriately unoriginal prize and publish the results late next week. Responses must be fewer than 100 words (much fewer would be nice) and must arrive in my inbox, slatemovies@gmail.com, by Tuesday, June 17, at 10 p.m. ET.
Here's mine:
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Star Wars Episode III: Starring Jack Black as Obi Wan Kenobi, Mel Brooks as The Emperor, Michael Cera as Anakin Skywalker, and Reese Witherspoon as Amidala. Directed by Judd Apatow. An Apatow-directed remake captures the true farce at the heart of Sith’s Oedipal premise while mining the hilarity of the kinda creepy age differential between Anakin and his older bride. Musical numbers guest directed by Baz Luhrmann.