Amen! Thomas Tryon’s other good book Harvest Home was likewise ripped off (at least in theme) for Children of the Corn.
I suspect that Hampshire was referring to The Others, rather than to the Tom Tryon movie The Other.
I suspect you’re right! :smack:
All of the “canonical” Oz stories (ie, those written by Frank Baum himself, and not his wife or some other latecomer) should be in the public domain by now. Baum died in 1919, and the last Oz story written by him was published in 1920. So go for it!
Does that fabulous Sean Connery vehicle Zardoz count?
Before there was Memento there was Pulp Fiction which is the same in a lot of ways with the ‘tell the story out of sequence’ thing.
I came in to the thread to find most of my suggestions already named: Blair Witch Project, in particular.
I imagine this was meant as a bit of tongue in cheek, but there are a number of such stories that could do very well as a movie. Even though they may lack Nazis and explosions. (I can think of some that have explosions, and others that have Nazis, or fascists, at least, but not so much with both elements.)
Just off the top of my head: [ul][li]The story the R-101, with all the hubris involved with its construction, the errors, the outright idiocies, might make for a nifty little morality play. [/li]
[li]As for tragi-comic, there’s always the story of the Italia, and all that went wrong with it.[/li]
[*]Finally, for balloons, there’s the absurdities of the S. A. Andree’s 1897 attempt to explore the North Pole. Which, AIUI has already been made into a well-received movie for Norwegian audiences.[/ul]
Planet of the Apes
For my cite, I will be using the Tim Burton remake.
Groundhog Day. It was fun the first time, but a second one would be redundant. Ad a third, and a fourth, and a fifth, and a sixth, and a seventh, and an eighth…
Bugsy Malone - all kid cast - come to think of it, it didn’t really work the first time.
I think any idea can be reused, and often is. The problem is when, as has been pointed out, they don’t try very hard in the remake to fill out the plot or ideas.
I haven’t seen a single title come up that isn’t either a remake or been remade.
-Eben
How about Andy Warhol’s Empire?
Along similar lines, The Neverending Story. Except they did make a sequel to that one. :smack:
Yeah, but Memento was shot out of sequence for a very specific reason. That reason you can’t duplicate without it being gimmicky. Though come to think of it Primer had a good reason also.
But I know there was a recent movie told in backwards chronological order recently, although I can’t recall the name. The movie starts as the bitter couple is getting divorced, then each scene goes back in time to incidents in their life, and ends at their first meeting. It has the same backwards structure as Memento, and the same gimmick that you see events but don’t understand their significance until you later see what happened earlier.
That isn’t to say that backwards chronology isn’t a gimmick, just that the gimmick could conceivably work in a movie other than Memento.
I think you’re thinking of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. I don’t know if that was entirely in reverse order or scrambled.
5x2? I think there might be another like this, but this is the one that came up with some googling.
I know I’m typing – I can see the misspellings. Doesn’t anybody read my stuff? Look back to post #37 – Betrayal predates Memento, Pulp Fiction, and 5X2 in the reverse-chronological-order storytelling.
I agree that Memento was the first of its kind, and can’t possibly see how the concept could be pulled off a second time.
Who Killed Roger Rabbit?