10 Films Hollywood Should Have Remade Instead Of Ben Hur

10. US Marshals

This is the not-very-thrilling sequel to The Fugitive, which saw Tommy Lee Jones pursuing Harrison Ford, an innocent man on the run. US Marshals attempts to tell the same story, albeit with a different fugitive, but the result didn't exactly blow people away (Empire called it, “generic, uninspired and devoid of suspense”).

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The movie was built around Jones, who won an Oscar for The Fugitive, leaving us some pretty big shoes to fill, so our version gets as far away from his interpretation as possible and reinvents the character as female. Think Joan Allen or Kim Dickens, somebody who has that quietly commanding routine down cold.

Pit either one of those against Chris Pratt’s innocent man being hunted for a crime he didn’t commit and you’ve got some serious fireworks. Also, remember the final part of the movie, where Robert Downey Jr's character turns into a Talking Villain who outlines his Sinister Scheme? (Didn’t think so). Our version needs to lose that.

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