Liam Neeson will play A-Team leader Hannibal Smith (George Peppard, centre) in the film version.

HOLLYWOOD — What do Dustin Hoffman, Joan Crawford and George Peppard have in common?

Blame it on Hollywood’s ever-increasing fear of risk-taking, but one of each’s signature roles is being recast in the latest slew of movie and TV remakes.

After Midnight Cowboy but before Papillon, Hoffman played the part of a pacifist American mathematician-turned-vigilante living in rural England in Sam Peckinpah’s ultra-violent 1971 thriller, Straw Dogs.

That was then.

Now it’s James Marsden as an L.A. screenwriter who’s doing the striking back in a new version set in the deep South, being directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender) and also featuring Kate Bosworth, James Woods and True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard.

Joan Crawford won her one and only Oscar as a working mother who sacrifices all for her ungrateful daughter (cue the slap) in the 1945 classic, Mildred Pierce.

Now comes word that fresh Oscar-winner Kate Winslet will be waiting tables in an expanded miniseries to be directed by Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) and to likely air on HBO.

Although nothing’s official at this point, it sounds too perfect not to be true.

While George Peppard enjoyed a prosperous motion picture career, he found later success in the role of Col. John (Hannibal) Smith, the leader of TV’s guilty pleasure, The A-Team.

Now, production is cranking up on a splashy big screen edition, with Liam Neeson chomping the stogies, with The Hangover’s Bradley Cooper taking over the role of Lt. Templeton (Faceman) Peck from Dirk Benedict.

We’re still waiting to hear which of several rapper-actors in the running will get the chance to fill Mr. T’s mighty shoes.

And that’s only the tip of the remake iceberg — not that there’s a Titanic redo currently in the works, but that, too, could change the way things are going.

Chris Hemsworth, recently seen in the revitalized Star Trek movie, has been assigned Patrick Swayze’s old role in a retake of Red Dawn, the affectionately hokey 1984 drama that saw the Commies invading the U.S. of A.

The reworked version also features Isabel Lucas (the latest Transformers) and

14-year-old Connor Cruise —yep, Tom and Nicole’s kid.

Speaking of Tom, after taking a break from what he does best to direct the ill-fated Valkyrie, Bryan Singer will be jumping back into the sci-fi universe with a big screen reboot of Battlestar Gallactica, while studios continue playing it safe, ordering fresh versions of both Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, as well as Barbarella.

Plus, thanks to the success of Wall•E, No. 5 will again come alive in a new Short Circuit, while a remake of the 1986 boy-and-his-robot adventure Flight of the Navigator has also been given the green light.

At the rate they’re going, they’re going to empty out the ’80s movie vault before the beginning of the next decade.

Of course, then they’ll just move on to toys, given the success of Transformers and G.I. Joe.

You gotta figure, Lego: The Movie is just around the corner.

Say what?

Warner Bros. has already purchased theatrical rights to a live action/computer animated movie set in Lego World and a script is being written as we speak.

Figures.