Specifically, I mean films that have some semblance of the same script.
For example, Tarzan is the most frequently recurring character in film, but the films are so different that they can’t be considered remakes. Although Tarzan the Ape Man with Bo Derek is definitely a remake of the film of the same name with Johnny Weismuller, most of the stories of the films are unrelated. Jungle-boy meets city-girl is not enough commonality.
But I would consider two films that are attempting to be screen adaptations of the same source material to be “remakes” for the sake of this thread. In that case, Disney’s Tarzan and Greystoke can be considered versions of the same story since they both are attempting to bring Tarzan of the Apes, the book, to the screen – not just borrowing the characters.
Cartoons count. TV counts.
Films do not have to have the same title when it is obviously the same story and characters.
Change of setting is allowed, but it gets kind of subjective. For instance, I would call The Magnificent Seven a remake of The Seven Samurai. But do we call Forbidden Planet a version of The Tempest? I’m not sure.
But speaking of the bard, I’m sure that the hands-down winner is one of Shakespeare’s plays, probably Hamlet. So let’s leave Bill out.
Counting TV movies and made for video (but not counting TV series) and trying to rule out erotica and sequels, I count 26 versions in the IMDB. That doesn’t include any possible versions not named “Three Musketeers.”
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde has, I know, been remade a lot. There were more than 26 versions in a list published in Famous Monster of Filmland back in the 1960s.
Yeah – IMDB lists 25 matching titles. But some versions have variants – “The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde”, “Der Januskopf”, and “The Nutty Professor” (The original Jerry Lewis one).
How about Frankenstein? The problem is that there are so many variations on the theme its hard to tell which ones are really remakes and which ones are “spinoffs”.
From the IMDB, it looks as if there are at least 18 versions of “Hound of the Baskervilles”.
How about Frankenstein? The problem is that there are so many variations on the theme its hard to tell which ones are really remakes and which ones are “spinoffs”. There are over 100 entries in the IMDB with the word “Frankenstein” in their titles, but of course most of them don’t match the definition we’re looking for here.
From the IMDB, it looks as if there are at least 18 versions of “Hound of the Baskervilles”.
Not MOST - that honor probably one of those already listed. Here are some otehrs that are under the category - ALOT of remakes
I count at least 22 movie versions of the Life of Lincoln - where he is the main or one of 2 main characters (cheating the thread because some aren’t so much his life as one aspect i.e. ‘Abe & Mary’ or ‘Lincoln in the War Years’ or ‘Young Lincoln’ etc. but “The Bio-story of Lincoln” movie has been made and re-made & re-made since the 1920’s)
11 versions of Pygmalion (per se) + 2 versions of My Fair lady + 10,000 movies, sitcoms and subplots that are knock offs
4 Movies about Wyatt Earp + 2 about the OK Corrall + Tombstone and infinite Westerns (& Star Trek episodes)
