Ha!
Apologies if someone already mentioned “Dial M for Murder” —> “A Perfect Murder”
Many may disagree, but I say that Kill Bill is quite similar to I Spit On Your Grave.
I’ve noticed similarities between Superman and Man Of Steel.
The Coen Brothers remade a French film called Going Places as a Big Lebowski spin-off called The Jesus Rolls.
If you can ever get your hands on it, Harlan Ellison once wrote an extended rant/review of Outland complaining about its many, many flaws. In particular he harped on how taking “High Noon” and just transplanting it onto a moon of Jupiter is an fundmentally stupid idea, because the psychology doesn’t even remotely work. Tough for-the-duration miners aren’t going to act like middle-class types inn a Western town, especially when it turns out that the company they work for has been giving them drugs to burn out their souls. Marshall Sean Connery ought to have no problem getting up a posse of badasses to confront the hit men Peter Boyle was sending in.
The Post Apocalyptic genre does an awful lot of “remakes”…
“World Gone Wild” with Bruce Dern and popstar Adam Ant is a remake of Seven Samuria/Magnificient Seven.
Steel Dawn is a loose remake of Shane with Patrick Swayze as the mysterous stranger.
The Incredible Journey was remade as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
That was all John Turturro. The Coen’s have writer credits for the characters, but nothing else.
I caught I Am a Camera on Silver Screen this morning. Released in 1955, it stars Laurence Harvey and Julie Harris, with Shelley Winters in a minor role.
I realized almost immediately that it’s basically the same story as Cabaret. This is not surprising, since both movies were based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories, published in 1945, and the 1951 play with the same name.
You learn something new every day.
West Side Story is a New York street gang version of Romeo and Juliet.
And I bet they are the first to point that out. That was an unwatchably bad movie.
Dennis Dugan’s Brain Donors, with John Turturro, is a remake of The Marx Brothers A Night At The Opera.
Erich Kästner’s 1949 novel Das doppelte Lottchen, (“The Double Lottie”, translated into English under the title Lisa and Lottie) has been filmed as:
Two Times Lottie, 1950, West Germany
Hibari no komoriuta (Hibari’s Lulliby), 1951, Japan
Twice Upon a time, 1953, UK
The Parent Trap, 1961, US (the one with Hayley Mills)
Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum (Child and God), 1965, India (Tamil)
Leta Manasulu (Tender Hearts), 1966, India (Telugu)
Do Kaliyaan (Two Buds), 1968, India (Hindi)
The Two Lottes 1992, Japan
Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen, 1994, Germany
Khaharan-e gharib, 1996, Iran
The Parent Trap, 1998, US (the one with Lindsay Lohan)
Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi ( A Little Sour, A Little Sweet), 2001, India (Hindi)
Das doppelte Lottchen, 2007, Germany
Ellen Barkin’s movie from the 90s, Switch, is a remake (or strong homage at least) to Goodbye Charlie from the mid-1950s with Debbie Reynolds.
The Sylvester Stallone flick Cobra was based (meh…) on the novel “A Running Duck,” which was later published as “Fair Game” and adapted into yet another bad action movie (starring one of the lesser Baldwins and Cindy Crawford). I guess if filmmakers want another crack at some novel, just switch up the title and change a bit of the plot.
TIL: Cheers star George Wendt, and Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis, are grandson and great grandson, respectively, of Tom Howard, who took the infamous death chamber photo of Ruth Snyder with a camera strapped to his ankle.
The Longest Yard was a 1974 movie about a football game between prisoners and guards. I knew there was a 2005 remake, also titled The Longest Yard. But I just found out there were two non-American remakes; Mean Machine, a 2001 British movie and Captain Masr, a 2015 Egyptian movie.
I just discovered an obscure one.
Berkeley Square was a 1933 movie starring Leslie Howard, about a man who time travels to 1784, taking the part of his ancestor. He falls in love with one of the women in the house, but gets in trouble because he can’t avoid showing off his knowledge of the future – mentioning a painting to its artist, who hasn’t finished it or shown it to anyone, for example.
It was remade as The House on the Square (American title: I’ll Never Forget You) in 1951 with Tyrone Power, who has been changed to be an atomic scientist. He makes many of the same mistakes as in the original. He also tries to invent things like electric lights. He is sent to Bedlam for saying he knows the future. He also falls in love with a different sister.
Both have a scene with the sister looks into his eyes to see the world he came from.
The films are notable as one of the first that featured time travel as a plot element (not including the various silent versions of A Christmas Carol and Will Rogers’s A Connecticut Yankee).
Groundhog Day was remade in Italy as Stork Day.
The 2001 German movie Mostly Martha (German title: Bella Martha) was remade in 2007 as the American Ron-Com No Reservations
Mostly Martha is about working through profound grief by love and laughter. It is 92% at Rotten Tomatoes.
No Reservations is a stereotypical Rom-Com with a plot gimmick orphan taken in by a workaholic. Hijinks abound. It is 42% at Rotten Tomatoes.