# Directors who directed remakes of their own films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-directed-remakes-of-their-own-films/223505 "2004-01-08T21:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-directed-remakes-of-their-own-films/223505/21 "2004-01-09T15:02:48Z")
No, really–it was an earlier TV movie called [**L.A. Takedown**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097700/). ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-directed-remakes-of-their-own-films/223505/22 "2004-01-09T15:34:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Mullets \* > \*\*He wasn’t talking about Evil Dead. I believe there was a short made before Evil Dead titled “It Came from the Woods” or something of the like, which was made to get investers interested in producing Evil Dead 1. > \*\* The short film was called “Within the Woods” and if you’re a big Evil Dead fan it might be worth tracking down (not going to say where but I think you know). But anyway, while “Within the Woods” was used as an investment tool to fund The Evil Dead, it has almost nothing to do with the rest of the series in terms of plot, characters, locations, and situations. But I guess fundamentally it would be a remake if “Within the Woods” were ever actually officially shown to anybody but a few investors. ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-directed-remakes-of-their-own-films/223505/23 "2004-01-09T20:15:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Justin\_Bailey \* > \*\*Evil Dead II is definitely NOT a remake of The Evil Dead. Sam Raimi has said so many times. > \*\* In a Fangoria [interview](http://www.samraimifan.com/arfangoria2.html) with Sam, he has this to say: > [@](#): > > Fang: Why did you rework the events of Evil Dead for its sequel? > Raimi: So few people have seen the first movie that I decided to retell it. Also I couldn’t get the rights to use flashbacks from the original. I’m pretty sure he and Bruce tell a story similar to the one **John Mullets** mentioned, in one of the commentaries on either the first or second movie dvd. It was my understanding that this was what allowed Bruce to get the extra money to co-produce Evil Dead II. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-directed-remakes-of-their-own-films/223505/24 "2004-01-09T23:23:58Z")
_Slingblade_ is an expanded version of Billy Bob Thornton’s _Some Folks Call it a Slingblade._ ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-directed-remakes-of-their-own-films/223505/25 "2004-01-10T00:04:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\*No, really–it was an earlier TV movie called [**L.A. Takedown**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097700/). \*\* My word, the deja vu! It’s almost as though someone already mentioned that movie in this thread - surely not! (sorry, sarcasm is the lowest form of humour, I know) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-who-directed-remakes-of-their-own-films/223505.md?page=1)