Another blast from the past...."Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" could be updated....

After talking about possible remakes of The "California Kid" and "Thunder Road" someone mentioned "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry." It's usually on the list of greatest car-chase movies in buff magazines or on the internet. For those who aren't action / car movie buffs-It starred Peter Fonda and Susan George. Fonda was an ex-Nascar driver who with his former crew chief decide ro rob a major supermarket to fund their next attempt to run the Winston Cup circuit. It's largely lumped in with campy stuff like "Eat My Dust" or "Moonrunners" but it actually has a pretty good robbery / kidnapping plot gone wrong and good suspense. There's also some good automotive action early on with Fonda driving a '66 Impala, that they later dump for the Iconic '69 Charger used in the finale. Susan George was smokin' hot in the early '70s-she had the barefoot, halter-top wearing southern slut that men die and kill for down pat. She played Dustin Hoffman's wife in the Sam Peckinpah thriller "Straw Dogs", she played Timothy Bottoms girlfriend in the revenge flick "A Small Town in Texas" and her hot inter-racial love scenes with Boxer Ken Norton in "Mandingo" gave her the same kind of notoriety that Sharon Stone got from "Basic Instinct" years later. Others have tried it-Kim Basinger in "No Mercy", Teri Hatcher in "Heaven's Prisoners" and most recently Reese Witherspoon in "Mud"-but none of them come close to Susie as the bubble-headed Mary or Jennifer Billingsley as the over-sexed "Shake a Puddin'" in "White Lightning". As to whether Susie or Jennifer has the more enticing, sympathetic portrayal of the whore-with-a-heart-of-gold-it's too close to call. Susie was a little more biker bitch, in-your-face-with her sexuality and attitude,going insult for insult with Fonda and his pal while showing her smokin,tanned body in-the skimpy denim halter-top and ultra-tight hip-hugger jeans that barely covered her ass-crack-while Jennifer was more demure- wearing a flowery sundress and running her bare foot up and down Burt Reynolds bicep and cooing-"If you want it Gator, just say so." "If you don't it's ok." That scene causes a "Wayne's World" type "Schwing!" for me every time I see it. Anyway you want to rate them-Susan pretty much had that market cornered in the mid-70's. Vic Morrow-ironically following the role of the Maniacal sheriff in the "California Kid"-is cast here as-guess what? An over-zealous lawman that you feel doesn't want to catch Fonda & crew and send them to jail, he wants to kill them. The fatal crash at the end was used in the opening credits of "The Fall Guy" for years.  Anyhow-the kidnapping / robbery plot would still fly-you'd just have to change the dollar amounts. For cars a Hellcat Charger would be the obvious choice-but you could also use a Camaro SS or a Mustang GT. I'd say use Chris Hemsworth ( "Thor" "The Avengers," "Blackhat" ) in the Peter Fonda role and Scarlett Johansen as Mary. ScarJo wouldn't even have to talk-90 minutes of her barefoot in skimpy jeans and a barely-there halter top would be worth the price of admission. Now if Chris got tired of her bitching and put her bound and gagged in the backseat??!!!!  Ok, sorry getting too close to porn there......But still..... Anyhow I think it could be a big hit.  Mastermind