As cool and amazing and revolutionary as The Matrix was, (suck it, people who are mad that it just repurposed decades-old sci fi themes and meshed them with fairly modern anime tropes) I think it is an undeniable fact that having Bruce Lee replaced Keanu Reeves in the lead role would have substantially improved the film. Not because Keanu Reeves was any more awful than usual, he actually worked quite well for what the role of Neo require, it's just that any movie would be better with Bruce Lee in the lead role.
Sadly, that casting possibility is not a reality... in this universe. Which leads us to designer Sean Hartter's Alternate Universe movie posters. Hartter is essentially making movie posters for relatively recent films with design styles and techniques of yesteryear, but what sets him apart from the massive crop of designers retrofying movie posters is that Hartter actually completely reimagines the films themselves, matching stars and directors with their era's poster stylings.
As cool as these are from a design standpoint, the window they open up in your imagination is the real draw here. Shatner in Avatar? Connery in The Fifth Element? James Dean in Drive?
Yes-freaking-please. (Although none could top the combo of Pam Grier and Bruce Lee - just sayin')
(And technically, Gosling did do a pretty good Dean impressive throughout 90% of Drive.)
Hit the jump for some highlights.
Check out Hartter's complete archive.
[spotted on Slashfilm's Page 2]
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