My wife and I were talking about this and we came up with a couple of suggestions, but who we would pick would depend heavily on the screenplay.
I can think of a couple of the regulars on “Sons of Anarchy” that might make a pretty good go of reviving Snake Pliskin...all of them are certainly candidates as inmates...Charlie Hunnan, Kim Coates, and Tommy J. Flanagan for starters.
But again, if the right screenplay came along, we both think Vin Diesel would be an outstanding Snake Pliskin. Think about Riddick in the opening of “Chronicles” with all that shaggy hair and that knife...
You don’t want somebody cute. You want the shaggiest looking baddass you can find, and Kurt Russell left some big shoes to fill. Yah, he looks more comic today than he did when EFNY came out, but at the time he was the baddest guy on film.
Another “Essential Kurt Russell” is “Big trouble in little China”. Also a howler to watch, but Jack Burton is also vintage Kurt Russell...