It may not have been black, but it was definitely white. Many scenes had white backgrounds, and the color (or lack thereof) was used prominently throughout the film. Perhaps Michael Mann was trying to draw a contrast between the murky morality of serial killers and the normalcy of the real world. I think he was just showing off.
Outland was a sci-fi remake of High Noon. Not bad, but not even in the same league as the original.
The 39 Steps and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Both made and then remade by Hitchcock.
Classics for remaking:
Mutiny on the Bounty
Moby Dick
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Robin Hood
Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Christo
The Prisoner of Zenda
Well, there was the poorly done, animated LOTR done a while back.
Disraeli was made twice, in 1921 and 1929, with George Arliss playing the title character each time.
The first film was a silent and the second had sound. Arliss won an Oscar for the second film.
Also remade in Scandinavia as Hrafninn flygur aka * When the Raven Flies*
http://www.imdb.com/Details?0087432
(released in the USA under the title Revenge of the Barbarians:rolleyes:
The Parent Trap
Romeo and Juliet
Othello- I think
~Monica
One that suprised me was that they made “the alegedly true story of the texas cheerleader murdering mom” twice. One was the funny one, and the other was a T.V. movie on lifetime.
Actually, Valmost was not a remake of Dangerous Liaisons.
“One of the more underappreciated films of the past few decades, Valmont was a classic victim of bad timing. Based upon the 1782 French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos, Milos Forman’s film was released just one short year after Stephen Frears’ celebrated Dangerous Liaisons, an adaptation of the Christopher Hampton stage play that was itself based on the same novel. Arriving late in the game, Forman’s movie was labeled an inferior copy and was dismissed by both critics and audiences.”
http://www.dvdfile.com/software/review/dvd-video_5/valmont.html
How about “Thunderball” and “Never Say Never Again”. “Never” is an updated version of “Thunderball”, right down to the dialogues.
There have been three theatrical versions: a 1926 silent version, made from a stage adapation, and now lost; 1949 (with Alan Ladd and Betty Field), and 1974 (Robert Redford and Mia Farrow). Plus a 2001 version for television, with Mira Sorvino and Toby Stephens.
Fitzgerald’s book is perhaps my favorite novel, and the 1974 was a fine adaptaion, IMHO. The 2001, on the other hand, was a disappointment.
There was no made-for-TV version of the novel Red Dragon.
No, Outland was not a remake of High Noon. It was made from an original screenplay by director Peter Hyams. It shares a theme (the lone gunman) with High Noon, but that doesn’t make it a remake.
Although What Price Hollywood? has a similar plot to A Star Is Born, the latter is not a remake. If it was, Writers Guild rules would require screen credit for the authors of the earlier screenplay.
ABC-TV is about to add another one. Next month, they’re premiering a made-for-TV remake of The Music Man, with Matthew Broderick as Prof. Harold Hill. Now there’s a movie that was just crying out for a remake. The original casting was horribly misguided, and the performances were terrible. :rolleyes:
I ask you, what corporate moron thought that a remake could top the Robert Preston version?!
Nitpick: the remake of The 39 Steps was not by Hitchcock.
They were both good, but I liked Valmont better than Dangerous Liasons.
There were a number of 1930’s movies remade in the '50’s as musicals. Off the top of my head:
The Philadelphia Story became High Society.
The Women became The Opposite Sex.
Bachelor Mother became Bundle of Joy.
The Craig Bierko version did fine on Broadway. I assume that’s what they’re doing, and there’s no particular reason why they shouldn’t. Even in the original play, Harold Hill was later played by Eddie Albert and Bert Parks.