Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is the most skilled pickpocket in Fagin's gang of child thieves. Dodger first introduces the innocent Oliver to a life of crime. He is charming, wily, and wise beyond his years. We're not sure if Casey Affleck can do an English accent, but we'd like him to try. 

Every action movie needs a little bit of romance, so we're going to revise the original story and invent Nan, the daughter of Nancy and Bill Sykes. We'd like her to be played by the cherubic Holliday Grainger. 

Dickens' political agenda requires the reader to sympathize with and greatly pity his protagonist; Oliver is not a fleshed-out character, he's just good. We assume that, in aging Oliver 20 years Sony plans to make him a bit more interesting, but just in case, we're going to cast the supremely good-looking Eddie Redmayne. 

Once a member of Fagin's gang, Bill Sykes is an adult when we meet him in Dickens' novel. He is frightening and cruel, and when his girlfriend Nancy tries to protect Oliver from him, he kills her. Mark Strong specializes in gruff characters on the wrong side of the law and would be perfect as an older Sykes. 

A gnarled, bearded middle-aged man, Fagin is the leader of Oliver's child-gang who teaches destitute children to pick pockets so he doesn't have to. When Mr. Brownlow rescues Oliver, Fagin fears that Oliver will turn him in and plots to kidnap him. We imagine he'll make an appearance in Dodge and Twist, and think he should do so in the form of Scottish actor, Brian Cox. 

We haven't seen Alan Rickman play a non-snarky character since Sense and Sensibility in 1995, so we're going to cast him as Mr. Brownlow, Oliver's benevolent benefactor.