Stop!!!
Vanilla Sky does not count as I’m looking at it, since I’m looking for a movie that was made in English, then remade in English.
The quickest I can think of is Manhunter(1986), remade into Red Dragon(2002).
I take it your also not counting different adaptions of famous plays and books, or else we’d have numerous instances of duelling Hamlets mere months apart.
Good point, Opus1. I mean a remake of a movie that is not something not like Hamlet. When you make Hamlet, you aren’t remaking the other movies, but remaking the play.
I’m thinking of things like, Psycho, Godzilla, any remake that admits its a remake.
Wow, I get to cite this movie twice in one day. His Girl Friday (1940) was a remake of the The Front Page (1931). Only nine years between. I don’t know if the 1931 version was original or an adaptation of a stage play though.
For the record, it was also remade again in The Front Page (1974) and Switching Channels (1988). Which is 14 years between.
(BTW, I’m sure Eve has something that beats this, where I’ve never heard of the movie or the remake.)
How about Evil Dead (1982) and Evil Dead 2 (1987)?
evil dead 2 is entirely different (and better on SO many levels) than evil dead 1.
Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely was the source for 1942’s The Falcon Takes Over and 1944’s Murder My Sweet.
Fannie Hurst’s novel Back Street was made into movies in 1932, 1941 and 1961.
Charley’s Aunt was made into movies in 1915, 1925, 1930, 1940 and 1941.
The novel Fair Game was the source for Cobra in 1986 and Fair Game in 1995.
Thunderball (1965) and Never Say Never Again (1983) are notable for the background legal battles.
“Vanishing Act” (1986) is a virtual shot by shot remake of “One of My Wives Is Missing” (1976).
As Opus1 said, the understanding is that we are not including movies that are based on a published literary work (novel, play, etc.). This means we exclude movies like The Front Page / His Girl Friday, or all the versions of Charley’s Aunt or The Maltese Falcon, etc.
We are looking for original screenplays that were remade into another movie. If you do not know whether a movie was made from an original screenplay, look it up in the Internet Movie Database.
With that established, here are some examples that qualify. The first movies of these pairs were from original screenplays:
Ball of Fire (1941) / A Song Is Born (1948)
Love Affair (1939) / An Affair to Remember (1957)
King Kong (1933) / King Kong (1976)
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1993) / Sling Blade (1996)
A Star Is Born (1937) / A Star Is Born (1954)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) / The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Tom Dick and Harry (1941) / The Girl Most Likely (1957)
My Favorite Wife (1940) / Move Over, Darling (1963)
Both are adaptations of the novel Red Dragon, so technically, the second movie is not a remake of the first movie.
Der Himmel über Berlin (Germany, 1987)/City of Angels (USA, 1998)
Insomnia (Norway, 1997)/Insomnia (USA, 2002)
Brewsters Millions has been remade I think 8 times, first in 1914, then 1921, last in 1985.
Not sure of any of the other dates though…
(But thats only a 7 year gap originally)
I guess I’m not ruling out movies that are based on books, but ruling out things that are based on Shakespeare or something that has been done a thousand times. Sherlock Holmes would be another that shouldn’t count, along with Dracula. Things that are so commonly made that nobody thinks of them as remakes.
Most people think of the new Red Dragon as doing Manhunter over again, replacing the old guy with Anthony Hopkins.
Foreign films are specifically excluded in the OP.
Not sure about the Norwegian “Insomnia”, but this year’s “Insomnia” is not an original screenplay. It’s based on a Stephen King novel, and is thus also excluded per this therad’s second and third posts.
Aack! Make up your mind, man 
No, it credits the witers of the original Norwegian movie. There is no connection between the new movie and the book other than they share the same title.
All are adaptations of the novel by George Barr McCutcheon, not remakes of each other.
Some disagreement over whether “Red Dragon” and/or “Never Say Never Again” count?
Okay, how about this one: John Cassavettes made “Gloria,” which starred his wife, Gena Rowlands, when I was in college… 1980, I think. Sharon Stone starred in a remake of that same movie just a few years back, in 1999.
So, that’s a remake 19 years later. If the others don’t count, this does.
If movies made from books now count, then The Maltese Falcon was shot in 1931, remade as Satan Met a Lady in 1936 and then redone in the classic version in 1941. Three totally different versions in 10 years.