It’s a combination of Beowulf, and Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s memoir.
One can quibble about how closely one needs to adapt the source material to be considered a “remake”.
Guess Who (2005) is a lighter comedic remake of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). Or they can just be part of the “my future father in law hates me” genre.
What Price Hollywood was remade as A Star is Born.
Five Came Back (1939) was remade as Back From Eternity (1956) and then as Pitch Black (2000) although the last one was set on another planet.
Battle Beyond The Stars.
There’s no disputing that. The first time I saw Wait Until Dark, I was on the edge of my seat, so to speak. (I was actually sitting on the floor, and I jumped about a foot in the air at the big moment.)
On the other hand, I saw Charade again a couple of weeks ago, and Hepburn gave a very convincing performance as someone scared to death at times. I wasn’t sure whom she could trust either until the very end.
Country Life is a 1994 Australian feature film. It is an adaptation of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. Despite a strong cast of Australian and New Zealand actors (Sam Neill, Greta Schacci, Kerry Fox, Maurie Fields, and Tony Barry) I doubt it covered its production costs. But adapting Chekov for film seems IMHO to be like trying to capture lightning in a bottle.
Not sure if these have been mentioned already:
10 Things I Hate About You = The Taming of the Shrew. (There are doubtless many more examples where Mr S is concerned)
Clueless = Emma
Yeah, again not a remake. Yeah, the basic story line and plot is there, but not the rest.
The 1998 Roland Emmerich Godzilla actually has much les to do with the Toho films than it does with the Ray Harryhausen UR-Monster* on the Loose film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. In both, a reptilian monster released/created by atomic bomb testing makes it way to New York, destroying things along the way, because New York is its spawning ground. (The Godzilla version showed us the actual spawning). Amazingly enough, considering that we’re dealing with a giant monster here, people lose it in the city. The creature is eventually killed in a NYC landmark.
The original Gojira was, director Honda admitted, inspired by TBf20kF (plus some more explicit references to the “Lucky Dragon”),but they couldn’t afford the extensive stop-motion animation and the time.
- There had been Monster On The Loose In The City films before TBf20kF – King KOng, the 1925 LOst World, etc. But Harryhausen’s was the first to bring all the 1950s tropes together – Monster associate with atomic bombs, creature coming to the city itself (previous monsters on the loose were brought to the city by people), handsome hero and assistant scientist heroine, only one chance to defeat it, etc. It was also Harryhausen’s first use of his “Dyamation/Dynarama” process, which he was actually forced to do because he couldn’t afford the army of technicians used by King Kong to create all thise glass paintings and forced perspective sets.
I’d disagree. You don’t need to have identical dialogue and character names to have a remake.
Myself, I draw the line when character’s motivations and purposes are not the same. So I don’t call Forbidden Planet a remake of The Tempest. Prospero lost his kingdom, after all, because he was distracted by his study of magic. Morbius , on the other hand, was pursuing his proper work as a philologist. Prospero encourages Miranda and Ferdinand. Morbius discourages romance between Altaira and J.J. Adams (or any of the crew). The drunken sailor cook in FP is just looking for a drink, and is otherwise dutiful. Stephano and TRinculo, although inept (and drunk), are actually trying to overthrow the leaders. And so on. There aree correspondence ibetwen characters, but the motivations and actions are all completely different.
The Lion King is based on the basic plot Hamlet, with some obvious differences because of the intended audiences.
And Lion King 1 1/2 is based on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Cool pix! They remind me of my recent Starfield playthrough, a lot! (Huge alien bugs, macro-sized space hardware, fancy suits, possibly “Victorian explorer” themed.
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Yes! At least an homage or inspired by.
There are a lot of Kurosawa films appearing in this thread today…
There’s a straight-to-video vampire film called Dance of the Damned which was produced by Roger Corman in 1989. A few years later he had another director shoot the same script and released it as To Sleep With a Vampire.
Roger Corman is 97 now…when he passes away we’ll lose a certain kind of showmanship forever.
A place in the Sun is a remake of An American Tragedy
What Price Hollywood from 1932 and A Star is Born from 1937 were about actresses. The same basic plot was remade again in three more A Star is Born movies in 1954, 1976 and 2018 but changed the main character to a singer.
But it was first remade in English in 1935 as the film First A Girl.
The Bruce Willis movie, “Last Man Standing”, is a definite remake of the Clint Eastwood movie, “For a Fistful of Dollars”. It is the exact same plot with only a couple of different wrinkles in it. Touch guy gun fighting wizard shows up in a town with two rival gangs. He plays them off against one another, kills them all, and leaves wealthier than he arrived.
Everybody says this, but I’ve never seen anyone point out the obvious similarity of Simba-in-exile, Timon, and Pumbaa to Prince Hal, Ned Poins, and Falstaff from Henry IV Both parts 1 and 2. The chief difference is that, although Timon and Pumbaa are “low”, they’re honorable, and fight in Simba’s defense at the end.