…kinda feels like this should’ve sparked an ‘oh, A Christmas Carol begat Scrooge and Scrooged and The Muppet Christmas Carol and…’
It was also the inspiration for the stage musical (and later screen musical) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
The play Berkeley Square was by John Balderston, the genius who rewrote Hamilton Deane’s play Dracula for Broadway, then went on to write the screenplay for Universal. He also wrote the script for The Mummy, which also featured the reincarnation of a lost love. (Dracula, lest we forget, did not, but eventually Dracula’s Reincarnated Wife became a trope of its own. )
I see Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, who wrote the script for Groundhog Day, are also credited as two of the writers for Stork Day.
Mogambo is the 1953 remake of the 1932 film Red Dust. And Mogambo again stars Clark Gable, no less.
But I love the first one best because nobody did snappy patter better than Jean Harlow.
Not really, they are both cinematic versions of the book The Hunter by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) the Parker series, not a remake of the first.
TIL that Steven Spielberg has remade his own 1985 film, The Color Purple, and it got me wondering about how many directors have remade their own films. That got me to this page, which includes several that fit the OP. (I apologize if any of these have already been mentioned above.)
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Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland’s action-thriller In Order of Disappearance (2014), remade in English language as Cold Pursuit (2019).
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Chilean film director Sebastián Lelio made Gloria (2013), and remade it into an English language film with a similar title, Gloria Bell (2018), starring Julianne Moore and John Turturro.
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Starbuck (2011) by Canadian director Ken Scott was first remade by a different director into a French project called Fonzy (2013). Scott then remade it in America as Delivery Man (2013), with Vince Vaughn.
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Japanese filmmaker Takashi Shimizu made Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) in Japanese, as well as its American remake, The Grudge (2004).
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Michael Mann made L.A. Takedown (1989) and its better-known remake, Heat (1995).
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Frank Capra remade Lady for a Day (1933) as Pocketful of Miracles (1961), his final feature film.
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Yasujiro Ozu remade A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) as Floating Weeds (1959).
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John Ford remade Judge Priest (1934) as The Sun Shines Bright (1953).
Cecil B. DeMille made a silent and a sound version of The 10 Commandments. Also, B&W and color.
Oh-- and The Unholy Three has both silent and sound versions, just five years apart (1925, 1930). Different directors, but both Lon Chaney & Harry Earles in starring roles.
There’s a movie called The Field starring Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, and Sean Bean and I swear I thought it was a remake of The Quiet Man. Harris plays a farmer who is hellbent on purchasing a plot of land his family farmed for generations but a wealthy American is trying to buy it as well. But it’s not a light hearted comedy and Harris plays an overbearing man whose obsession leads to dark places and his whole world falls apart.
Hitchcock remade his British film “The Man Who Knew Too Much” from 1934 under the same title in 1956 as the better known American production with James Stewart and Doris Day.
Those (and a few others) are both listed on the page I linked to, but since this thread is about remakes with different titles, I didn’t include them.
I was specifically responding to the question about directors remaking their own films-- which I realize is a tangent, but this thread has been in play a while.
Make Way for Tomorrow a 1937 US movie (mom and dad are broke, their adult kids won’t be inconvenienced with helping them, so they have one last day on the town before separating for life) was remade as Tokyo Story in 1953: mom and dad come to the big city, their adult kids can’t be inconvenienced to spend time with them. Unrelated to that, mom gets sick and dies, kids feel bad.
Was there a ruling on if just modifying the title or shortening it counted?
1991 BBC tv movie “Bernard and the Genie” just got remade with Melissa McCarthy as “Genie”
Trailer here
Thanks for mentioning that, as it prompted me to look for and watch the new version. (I always liked the original one.)
Clarification: Spielberg is producing, but not directing, the 2023 version of The Color Purple, which is a musical!
Not that it applies to the thread topic, but like The Color Purple, a musical version of Mean Girls is scheduled for release next month. In both cases, the new movie is based on a stage musical based on a non-musical film based on a book. (This amuses me because in a second-season episode of 30 Rock, the character Jenna Maroney announced she won an award for Best Actress In A Movie Based On A Musical Based On A Movie.)
Well, there was a musical version of *Gone with the Wind."
As a movie, or only on stage?
Stage
It opened and closed the same week, or something like that.
The musical that makes me laugh hardest is the musical version of The Amy Fisher Story.