How about The Producers (2005)? In a loose sense, it’s a remake of the 1967 film with the same title, but it’s really a film adaptation of the stage musical that was based on the 1967 film.
No. That way madness lies.
Do that and you’ll want to do the same with Little Shop of Horrors.
Charley and the Chocolate Factory was based on the book, not the Gene Wilder film, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl supposedly hated the latter, so his estate insisted they stick with the written version.
On stage, the Broadway musical Mary Poppins was based on the book, not the movie. However, they worked with Disney to include some of the songs from the movie.
This is kind of stretching the premise, but there are also TV series that may be based on a movie or may be based on a book. For a recent example, the His Dark Materials series is based on the His Dark Materials books and not on the movie The Golden Compass.
More Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is the same story as Kind Hearts and Coronets. They wanted to use the latter title, but the owners of the movie refused to let them and sued them over it. So the musical was based on the original book, Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal. The book was in the public domain, so permissions were not an issue.
That’s another case of both the HBO series and the movie being based on the same source material, which is the usual case. Similarly, the HBO Watchmen series and the Watchmen movie were both based on the graphic novel, and neither on the other (so the HBO series DID have the giant squid-thing that the movie lacked).
I’m not terribly surprised by such cases of multiple interpretations based on the samesource. It’s the cases where one movie is based on another movie, especially if the first movie was not itself an original source, that are most rare and interesting.
That’s coming up. Maybe.
“Pointless wastes of time”?
Well, there already has been the Werner Herzog remake from 1979. I watched the original Murnau film, but not the Herzog version, only bits and pieces from it, so I personally cannot judge if it’s based more on the novel or on the Murnau version. Judging alone from Klaus Kinski’s make-up and mask which resembles Max Schreck’s strongly, I think Herzog went for the Murnau version as inspiration.
I’d forgotten the Herzog Nosferatu. It’s actually two films – Herzog filmed it both in English and in German (actually filmed it twice – not merely dubbed). I’ve seen both versions now. The film is definitely a remake of Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu, since there was no book “Nosferatu” – Murnau used Bram Stoker’s Dracula as his source, without obtaining permission from Stoker’s widow, or paying royalties. Flo Stoker was, not surprisingly, furious, and tried to have all copies destroyed. Fortunately, she didn’t succeed. But the Herzog film isn’t based on Stoker’s book, or on any other filmed version of “Dracula”. Although it deviates significantly from the 1922 film, it’s clearly a remake of that film.
The Unholy Three was a silent film that was remade once sound came it. Though they were both based on a novel, the sound version used the silent version as a template, even bringing back Lon Chaney as the lead.
I knew that, basically Murnau took Bram Stoker’s novel and changed the places, nationalities and names of the protagonists, but kept the basic story. So I think you can say that Murnau’s Nosferatu was based on Stoker’s Dracula.
This reminds me of the 1964 Clint Eastwood movie, “A Fistful of Dollars”, and the 1996 Bruce Willis movie, “Last Man Standing”. Lone gunman rides/drives into a desert town completely dominated by two gangs. He plays both gangs off against one another and emerges victorious in the end. It was basically two different eras but the same essential movie.
The Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings and the 1978 animated film.
Partially posting this so I can post this complete sidetrack.
If you aren’t aware of it, this is yet another Akira Kurasawa samurai epic that was re-imagined as a western. A Fistful of Dollars is basically a remake of Kurasawa’s 1961 film Yojimbo. The film was based on Kurasawa’s own story, so it’s pretty clear that A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing are examples of films based on another film.
I think this is pretty clearly a case of films based on the same source material, not of a film based on another film.
OK so I completely misread the OP then 
Does a movie based on a TV show count? (or vice versa) Lots of examples of that. Lost in Space, Traffic, etc.
I’ve read Nightmare Alley and seen the original movie. I know there were some minor differences between the two, but they’re very similar. I wish I could remember what those differences were, because I’d like to see if the new film is based more on the book than the first film.
What about things that are sort of a hybrid of the original source and the first movie?
I’m thinking of “Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles”, which was “based on the 1959 novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and the 1997 film adaptation”. It incorporated elements from the original book that were left out of the movie, like the powered armor, and tended to be more faithful to the tone of the book, but also incorporated elements that were created for the movie, so it was clearly intended as a remake of the movie as well.
The show combines elements of Verhoeven’s film and the original novel, such as the extraterrestrial race known as the Skinnies, powered armor suits and drop pods. The series also adds some original elements (e.g., the war starts on Pluto), while omitting the political aspects of the original work and film.
As well, character models for both the humans and the Bugs were clearly based on the movie.
I suspect the origin of all of these is Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest”.