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{{quote|[[The Nineties]] saw a wave of middle-brow adaptations of [[William Shakespeare|The Bard's plays]], otften taking them to new and interesting territory. There was [[Henry IV]] [[My Own Private Idaho|with rent boys]], [[wikipedia:Richard III (1995 film)|a Fascist]] [[Richard III]], [[The Taming of the Shrew]] [[
Adaptations of old stories will frequently move them closer to the production in time and/or space, even if the original is only a couple of decades old, in a [[Derivative Works]] kind of [[Creator Provincialism]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' is ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' <small>AS A HIGH SCHOOL [[Panty Fighter]] ANIME!</small>
* ''[[
* ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' is ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' <small>AS A [[Gender Flip|GENDER FLIPPED]] [[Girls Love|YURI]] FEST!</small>
* ''[[Koutetsu Sangokushi]]'' is {{spoiler|(loosely)}} ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' <small>WITH [[Bishonen]] / [[Ho Yay]]!</small>
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* Romeo × Juliet is ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' <small>set in a dystopian future</small>.
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* [[Marvel Comics]]' [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate]] imprint is early(ish) [[Marvel Comics]] <small>IN THE 2000s!</small>.
* ''Rapunzel's Revenge'' is "[[Rapunzel]]" <small>IN A [[Schizo-Tech]] OLD WEST!</small>
** This is borderline, though. It has some big differences besides the setting
* In [[Marvel Comics]] or [[DC Comics]] superhero lines, almost any retelling of a character's origin will fall into this category, especially as regards technology, the status of minorities and who the President is. The only exceptions are characters whose origins are fixed in history, e.g. [[Captain America (comics)]]. (That said, compare the versions of Cap's awakening in the modern day from the original in ''Avengers'' #4-10, and the more recent ''Captain America: Man Out of Time'' miniseries for a perfect example of this trope.)
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** Then Roger Corman made Battle Beyond The Stars, which is [[The Magnificent Seven]] [[In Space]]! (It even has Robert Vaughn playing a character who's essentially and Expy of his character in the western version.)
* A classic three-way version: ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' is ''Yojimbo'' <small>IN THE OLD WEST!</small>, while ''[[Yojimbo]]'' was ''[[Dashiell Hammett|Red Harvest]]'' <small>IN FEUDAL JAPAN!</small>
** ''[[Last Man Standing (graphic novel)|Last Man Standing]]'' - ''A Fistful of Dollars'' <small>IN PROHIBITION-ERA TEXAS BORDER COUNTRY!</small>
* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' is Homer's ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'' <small>IN THE [[Deep South|SOUTHERN UNITED STATES]] DURING [[The Great Depression]]!</small>
* ''[[The Wiz]]'' is ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' <small>IN TWENTIETH CENTURY HARLEM!</small>
* [[Shakespeare]] gets this treatment a lot:<ref>Though this may be [[Justified]] as Shakepeare's plays were written to be modern; what is now period dress would have been modern at the time, and several shakespeare scholoars have supported this line of thinking.</ref>
** [[The Onion]] has [https://web.archive.org/web/20100225045404/http://www.theonion.com/content/news/unconventional_director_sets mocked this kind of behaviour].
** ''[[West Side Story]]'' was ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' <small>IN TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW YORK CITY ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN! AS A MUSICAL!</small>
** ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]'' is ''Romeo and Juliet'' <small>WITH GARDEN GNOMES!</small>
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*** Replace ''Hamlet'' with ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' and you get the prequel.
** 1996's ''[[William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet]]'' is ''Romeo and Juliet'' <small>IN THE MODERN DAY! WITH ALMOST THE EXACT SAME DIALOG!</small> (They even had guns called "Sword 9mm"s.)
** Similarly, the 1995 film of ''[[Richard III]]'' is the play <small>IN 1930s ENGLAND DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION ! WITH NAZI REGIME FORESHADOWING, ORWELLIAN PARALLELS AND [[
** And the 2000 ''[[Hamlet]]'' is the play <small>IN CORPORATE AMERICA!</small>... featuring some of the most numerous and blatant [[Product Placement|product placements]] ever filmed. Who can forget the Ghost of Hamlet's father disappearing into a Pepsi machine?
** The 2008 Royal Shakespearean Company's ''Hamlet'' is also set <small>IN THE PRESENT DAY</small> with lots of surveillance cameras around, adding to the sense of oppression and claustrophobia. And featuring [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] as Hamlet and [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Picard]] as Claudius! [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/hamlet/watch-the-film/980/ See it here courtesy of those nice people over at PBS.]
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** 1996's ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' <small>IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND!</small>
** There are also a bunch of films whose premise is [[Shakespeare]] <small>[[High School AU|IN A MODERN DAY HIGH SCHOOL!]]</small>
*** ''10 Things I Hate About You'' (''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''). It even [[
*** ''[[She's the Man]]'' (''Twelfth Night'').
*** ''[[O]]'' (''[[Othello]]'' <small>WITH RAP STARS!</small>)
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** Not really a new thing. Ever hear of ''The Hot Mikado'' or ''Carmen Jones''?
* ''[[Clueless]]'' was Jane Austen's ''[[Emma]]'' <small>IN A MODERN DAY HIGH SCHOOL!</small>
* ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' is particularly prone to this in adaptations, with the 1938 radio play, the 1953 film, the 1980s TV series, and two of the three 2005 films moving the setting to the present day from the novel's 1902. [[Jeff Wayne]]'s [[Rock Opera]] adaptation (and the [[Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds|PC game]] based on it), along with the third of the 2005 releases, are the only ones that ''keep'' the original setting.
* [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'' moved from [[The Seventies]] to the [[Present Day]].
** Someone forgot to tell the guy in charge of getting a school bus for the movie, though.
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* The film adaptations of [[The Bourne Series]], which was written in the '70s, which also necessitated major changes to the plot since the [[Ripped from the Headlines]] villains of the books was no longer relevant in the 2000s (being just a teensy bit ''in prison for the rest of his life'').
* [[The Saint]] and [[Mike Hammer]] have so far never appeared in film or TV adaptations in period pieces. The Armand Assante remake presented an updated story with Hammer as a Vietnam veteran instead of a Pacific Theater World War II veteran. Even though the last time Stacy Keach played Hammer aired over fifty years since the first appearance of Mike Hammer, it presented an updated story. Roger Moore's [[The Saint (TV series)|version of The Saint]] debuted over thirty years after the first appearance of the Saint in print in 1928, but presented an updated story, as did subsequent adaptations with Ian Ogilivy, Andrew Clarke, and Simon Dutton. The Val Kilmer film took place in contemporary times, arriving in theaters in 1997-almost seventy years after the Saint's debut.
* Usually, adaptations of comic book heroes, no matter how many decades after the character's debut, appear as contemporary stories. For example, the 2008 ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' took place in contemporary times, even though it arrived 45 years after [[Iron Man]]'s debut. (Exceptions, where the World War II roots of a property did appear in a TV or movie adaptation include Lynda Carter's ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'', which initially took place in World War II, and the Salinger ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' film, whose early scenes took place during World War II.)
* ''[[Scrooged]]'' is Charles Dickens' ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' <small>IN THE 1980s!</small> It works, though, because of the cleverness of using a [[Show Within a Show]] concept - the Scrooge analogue is producing a live TV adaptation of the original ''A Christmas Carol'', yet clearly misses the point until it happens to him.
* The movie ''Guess Who?'' was a remake of the classic film ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?'', updated to the modern day, <small>WITH THE RACES REVERSED!</small>
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* ''Who's Your Caddy?'' is ''[[Caddyshack]]'' <small>WITH BLACK PEOPLE!</small>
* ''[[Three Kings]]'' is ''Kelly's Heroes'' <small>DURING THE GULF WAR!</small>
* ''[[Australia (2008 film)|Australia]]'' is ''[[Out of Africa]]'' <small>IN AUSTRALIA!</small>
* ''Armaan'' was ''[[Casablanca]]'' <small>IN INDIA AND AS A [[Bollywood]] MUSICAL!</small>
* ''[[She's All That]]'' is ''[[Pygmalion]]'' <small>IN HIGH SCHOOL!</small>
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* The 1991 prime time revival of ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'' was essentially the same as the classic series with the modern story arcs updated from the mid-to-late 1960s/early 1970s to the early 1990s.
** The aborted 2004 WB version would have once again updated the modern portions of the series to the then present day.
* Vh1’s TV film “''A Diva’s Christmas Carol''” is [[A Christmas Carol]] <small> but with female anti-hero called Ebony, a female ghost called Marli Jacob who was killed in a car crash played by [[TLC (band)|
* ''[[Lost in Space]]'' is ''[[The Swiss Family Robinson]]'' <small>in Space</small>
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[D20 Modern]] is... well, ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Delta Green]]'' is ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' <small>WITH SPECIAL FORCES!</small> {{spoiler|It doesn't make much difference.}}
* [[In-Universe]] example in a ''[[Transhuman Space]]'' sourcebook, where a review of a new production of ''[[The Tempest]]'' says "Over the last few years, Shakespeare's final complete play has suffered the most tragic fate which can overtake a classic text; it has become relevant. I swear, if I see one more InVid staging which transmutes Prospero's island into an L-5 station, with Ariel as an infomorph and Caliban as an experimental bioroid, I'll claw out my implant." Doesn't count as [[Recycled in Space]], because it's the present day from the perspective of the reviewer.
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== Videogames ==
* Many fantasy MMORPGs boil down to ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Onimusha]]'' is ''[[Resident Evil]]'' <small>WITH SAMURAI!</small>
* ''[[
* ''[[Age of Empires]]'' : ''[[Civilization]]'' + ''[[Warcraft]]'' <small>IN A REAL, SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD !!!</small>
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' is ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' <small>[[In a World]] [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|THAT RESEMBLES ANCIENT CHINESE MYTH!]]</small>
* ''[[
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: Modern Warfare'' is essentially ''[[Call of Duty]]'' <small>[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|IN THE PRESENT DAY!]]</small>
* ''[[Okami]]'' is ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' <small>WITH JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY!</small>
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* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' is ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' <small>WITH BATMAN!</small> ''and...''
* ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'' is ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' <small>WITH BATMAN!</small>
* ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]'' is basically ''[[They Live!]]'' the video game, <small> even including a [[Recycled in Space|
== Web Originals ==
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Night Hood]]'' is ''[[Arsène Lupin]]'' <small>IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD</small>
* '''[[Beavis and
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