Thanks for the save. Exactly what I meant.
And Zebra- if you like that, try My Own Private Idaho, a remake of Henry IV/ V starring Keannu Reeve. Highlights include a narcoleptic gay prostitute and his friend/lover the ‘I’ll go gay for $$$’ rich kid.
Nobody gets paid to write fan fiction. 
Nick Mamatas’ Move Under Ground takes characters, creatures and themes from Kerouac and Lovecraft both. The word you want is ‘pastiche’, I think.
And Ran is “King Lear” in medieval Japan.
And Lear is just a re-telling of the “love like salt” folk tale!
That Shakespeare. Such a hack, huh?
The ‘Honor Harrington’ series of SF novels is very much based on C S Forrester’s ‘Hornblower’ books.
’Blade Runner’ was so unlike it’s original novel (Philip K Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’) that the film company commissioned a novelisation. (And royally awful it was too).
I think you’re mistaken here – they simply reprinted Dick’s novel with the poster from the mopvie on the cover. They didn’t change a thing, even though it’s vastly different from the movie. In fact, it’s still in print that way. I picked up a copy and read it a couple of years ago.
You may be thnking of another movie based on a Philip K. Dick novel – Total Recall, which was based on a Dick short story.(As I note above) They got Piers Anthony to write a full-length novelization that resembled the film. It is, indeed, awful. If you want a better time, dig up (if you can) The Status Civilization by the recently deceased Robert Sheckley. I swear they lifted more of that movie from Sheckley’s novel than from the Dick short story.
I stand corrected - it was **Total Recall ** I was thinking of. I knew Piers Anthony was involved somewhere (It’s usually him or Alan Dean Foster). :rolleyes:
Gone With The Wind was retold from a slave’s POV, as The Wind Done Gone. There was a lawsuit, which the remake won.
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy was retold as a parody, Bored Of The Rings.
Romeo and Juliet became West Side Story, among other things, including a robot romance whose name escapes me.
I seem to recall that Piers Anthony wrote the novelization for the movie Total Recall, itself adapted from a Philip K. Dick story.
The plot of many of Shakespeare’s plays were taken from older works.
When I was in school, we did a production of The Merchant of Venice which had been re-written to exclude the anti-Semitism.
Hey, and let’s not forget* Cillf’s Notes.* 
Uhhh . . . that should be Cliff’s Notes.
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