And then Down to Earth.
Infernal Affairs and The Departed
Dangerous Liaisons was redone (and gutted) as Cruel Intentions.
10 Things I Hate About You is an adaptation of Taming of the Shrew.
Lady for a Day --> Pocketful of Miracles --> Ji Ji
The Maltese Falcon --> Satan Met a Lady --> The Maltese Falcon that everyone knows. I think the plot was also used in a couple of B movies, which often stole from other films, especially if they were from the same studio (no copyright hassles, since the studio owned the rights).
There’s an mid-80s movie starring… River Phoenix(?) named “Nikita”. The “La Femme” was probably added due to rights issues.
Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds.
Bedtime Story > Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House > The Money Pit
Hamlet got remade as The Lion King. There’s probably plenty of other Shakespeare remakes, including the above mentioned 10 Things I Hate About You.
The wonderful ‘Himmel Uber Berlin’ (‘Wings of Desire’) remade as the insipid ‘City of Angels’. Even changing one TV cop for another.
edit- from the lit into movie field, we have ‘Cruel Intentions’, whose heritage includes ‘Valmont’ and ‘Dangerous Liasons’, all three taken from the novel ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’
Disney only started claiming it ripped off Hamlet in order to avoid admitting it had actually ripped off another work that was still copyrighted. The Lion King is a remake of the Japanese television series The Jungle Emperor (aka Kimba, the White Lion), in some cases a shot-by-shot remake.
This has been gone over many times. The Lion King is not a remake of Kimba.
Father of the Bride Part II is a remake of Daddy’s Little Dividend
And though I’ve seen both, the second blinds me to the similarities. :eek:
The Bishop’s Wife remade as The Preacher’s Wife.
War, Inc. is essentially a remake of Grosse Pointe Blank, with most of the same actors.
Can’t even start to list all the remakes of The Mummy, the Vampire flicks, Frankenstein, Godzilla, etc.
For you 007 fans, Never Say Never Again was a remake of Thunderball.
High Noon ----> Outland
*The Big Clock *was remade as No Way Out.
ETA: They Live By Night and Thieves Like US are both adaptations of the same novel although according to IMDB (always a bit risky to trust as a source), Altman wasn’t aware that Nicholas Ray had used this work as the basis of They Live By Night.
Sleepless in Seattle, though it references An Affair to Remember, is actually a remake of The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (movie not TV show), though I have never been able to find any mention of this anywhere, but watch them both, you’ll see. Please, I need external validation!
And your post is your cite?
I disagree. Rio Lobo has a different plot entirely then El Dorado and Rio Bravo which are the same move. Rio Lobo is about John Wayne fighting a corrupt sherrif and helping so friends keep their land while finding the man who betrayed him during the civil war. The other two are about a John Wayne helping out a drunken sherrif to keep a rich man’s gang from taking over a town.
I don’t see any way to say the Rio Lobo is the same with out saying that all gunfigter coming to town and helping someone out against a bad guy are the same movie.