^ As if!
So was Three Amigos.
And A Bug’s Life.
The Fast and the Furious is Point Break with cars instead of surfing.
More examples here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modernized_adaptations_of_old_works
Knight Rider was just The Dukes of Hazzard. I mean, really, two guys with a car that can jump over obstacles, operating outside of the law under the leadership of an old dude and a hot babe who never has any romantic entanglement with the guys. All they changed was making the car itself one of the guys.
And Battle Beyond the Stars – which actually had Robert Vaughn re-playing the role he had in The Magnificent Seven
Also, Rio Lobo. Supposedly, a reporter once asked John Wayne about making the same movie three times. He replied, “Next time, I’ll play the drunk.”
Rich dude dresses all in black, including cape and mask, to use his wealth and finely-honed skills to secretly fight for the disadvantaged.
A group of wise and benevolent Ancient One aliens recruit heroes, pure of heart, from all of the sapient races of the Galaxy, into an elite corps dedicated to upholding justice, and gives all of them magic jewelry that can only be used by them to accomplish that mission.
OK, I get the first recurring theme but I don’t get the second. What movies are covered by that scenario that are close?
Neither of the stories in the second one is a movie. It was a series of novels and then a comic book. Well, OK, the comic book was eventually made into a movie, but it was a pretty bad one.
Oh, Lensmen series to Green Lantern?
Yup. The comic book eventually acknowledged it by having a member of the Corps named “Arisia”.
Never knew that, that is cool at least.
The Island (2005) was a blatant “re-working” of Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979), so much so that the producer of the latter sued Dreamworks for copyright infringement. Dreamworks settled out of court.
Saving Ryan’s Privates is a ripoff of Saving Private Ryan.
The Lion King is basically Kimba the White Lion
…which is all also Hamlet.
It really bothers me when people say, specifically, that Pixar’s Cars is just Doc Hollywood, or Avatar is just Ferngully.
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Why does that matter? Shakespeare’s stories were borrowed from elsewhere, nobody complains about that. Having a coincidentally similar, or even suspiciously similar, storyline is not that big a deal.
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Who the fuck watched Ferngully? About 100 8yr olds in 1992. It was not a successful movie. And Doc Hollywood was one of Michael J Fox’s lesser movies by quite a margin. Is it so bad they got remade, significantly added to, and reworked?
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Just enjoy a movie on its own terms. Stop comparing them with earlier versions, reworked storylines, inspiration, or the novels/comics they are adaptations of.