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It has become common in the past few decades to make updated versions of older films. This can be done for several reasons: the director may be a fan of the original work, the studios may want to capitalize on nostalgia, or the writers may want to approach the original plot from a different angle. A movie is not a remake if it is based on the same source as an earlier film, such as the 1967 and 1998 versions of ''Doctor Doolittle'', which were both based on the book series.

== Straight remakes ==

* The 2010 version of ''[[The Karate Kid]]''

* The 1976 and 2005 versions of ''[[King Kong]]''.

** ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'' is also a friendlier remake of King Kong. Incidently, that movie was also remade in the 90's.

* The 1998 version of ''[[The Parent Trap]]''.

** The 1961 ''Parent Trap'' already was the third adaptation of the same book, Erich Kästner's ''Das doppelte Lottchen'', and thus can itself legitimately be described as a [[Foreign Remake]].

* The 1956 version of ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' is also a remake of the 1923 silent movie of the same name. Cecil B. DeMille directed both.

* The 1956 film ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] is the remake of his own 1934 film with the same title.

* The 1998 and 2009 versions of ''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]''.

* The 2007 version of ''Sleuth''. Notable in that it kept one of the original leads, but in the opposite role.

* Cracked.com gives us [http://www.cracked.com/article_17141_6-movie-remakes-that-missed-point.html this list of remakes that missed the point].

* An unusual triple threat: Leo McCarey's ''Love Affair'' (1939), starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, was remade (by Leo McCarey) as ''An Affair to Remember'' (1957) with Deborah Kerr and [[Cary Grant]], which was remade ''again'' (by a different director) as ''Love Affair'' (1994) with Annette Bening and Warren Beatty. Ironically, ''[[An Affair to Remember]]'' is regarded as the best of the three, which has led to a general assumption that ''An Affair to Remember'' [[Older Than They Think|was the original]].

* ''Heaven Can Wait'' (1978) was a remake of the 1941 film ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'', and itself was remade in 2001 as ''Down to Earth''. It has nothing to do with the 1943 film ''Heaven Can Wait'' (directed by [[Ernst Lubitsch]]).

* The 1954 and 1976 versions of ''[[A Star Is Born]]'', respectively with [[Judy Garland]] and [[Barbra Streisand]].

* ''[[Doraemon]]'' does this for newer audiences and to keep the series alive - with [[Art Evolution]] (and, unfortunately, more censorship).

* Many people don't realize that the 1941 version ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' is actually a remake of a film made ten years prior.

** In the 70's, we would have ''[[The Wiz]]'' and later, [[The Muppets]] made their own version. Both involved veteran Muppeteer [[Frank Oz|Frank]] [[Meaningful Name|Oz]].

* The 1983 version of ''[[Scarface]]'' is also a little better known than the 1932 version. And that one is probably better known than the version made in 1928.

* The 2009 remake of ''[[Fame]]''.

* The play ''[[The Front Page]]'' by Hecht and MacArthur was first adapted into a movie in 1931, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Howard Hawks remade it in 1940 as ''[[His Girl Friday]]'' with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel, gender-flipping the role of reporter Hildy Johnson. In 1974 Billy Wilder flipped Hildy Johnson's gender back to male in his screen adaptation with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Then in 1988 Ted Kotcheff remade it for the satellite television age with Burt Reynolds and Kathleen Turner, flipping Hildy back to female.

 

* ''The Ring'', a remake of the Japanese film ''Ringu''.

* ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', a remake of the Japanese film ''[[Yojimbo]]''.

* ''Nightwatch'', a remake of the Danish film ''Nattevagten''.

* ''Jungle 2 Jungle'', a remake of the French film ''Un indien dans la ville''.

* ''[[The Departed]]'', a remake of the Hong Kong movie ''Infernal Affairs''

* The 2010 remake of the 2007 movie ''Death At a Funeral''. Bizarrely unneeded, as the original came out not even three years before the film was made, has one of the same actors returning for the same character, and is exactly the same in every way except the characters are black.

* ''Just Visiting'', a remake of the French film ''Les Visiteurs''.

* ''Welcome to Collinwood'', the 2002 remake of the Italian film ''I soliti ignoti'', with [[George Clooney]] reprising [[wikipedia:Tot%C3%B2|Totò]]'s role. The same film was also remade earlier with Louis Malle's 'Crackers'' (1984).

* ''[[True Lies]]'', a remake of the French film ''La Totale!''.

* ''Shall We Dance'', the 2004 American remake of the 1996 Japanese movie. Neither is related to the 1937 movie musical of the same title.

* ''Quarantine'', a 2008 remake of the Spanish film ''<nowiki>~[REC]~</nowiki>'' (2007).

* ''The Birdcage'', a remake of the French ''la Cage Aux Folles''

* ''[[The Wicker Man]]'' was remade in the States in 2006, with [[Nicolas Cage]] in a bear suit.

* ''[[Film/Pathfinder|Pathfinder]]'' is an American action remake of the Oscar-nominated Norwegian film ''Ofelas''.

* The 2010 film ''Let Me In'' is an American remake of the 2008 Swedish vampire film ''Let the Right One In''.

** There was another attempt to remake it with Bea Arthur as the gender-swapped version of John Cleese's character.

* ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' was a remake of the British ''[[Steptoe and Son]]''.

** ''[[The Ropers]]'' was based on the British ''[[George And Mildred]]''.

** ''[[Threes A Crowd]]'' was based on the British ''[[Robins Nest]]''.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rebuild of Evangelion]]''.

* The two Peter Cushing [[Doctor Who]] films of the mid-1960s are remakes of TV scripts (''The Daleks'' and ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''), one of the many reasons they aren't canon.

* There is talk of an upcoming ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' movie. It is set to star {{spoiler|Keanu Reeves. May God have mercy on us all.}}

** Cowboy Ted at his Matrix?

* The 2007 version of [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]], along with its [[Just for Pun|Squeakquel]].

* the 1978 mini-series version of [[Pennies From Heaven]] with [[Bob Hoskins]] remade as a film in 1981 with [[Steve Martin]]

* ''Last Man Standing'' is a remake of a remake, being a remake of a ''Fistful of Dollars'' which was a remake of ''Yojimbo''

* The movie ''State Fair'' got [[State Fair|a 1945 musical remake]], with songs by [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]. The musical itself was remade in 1962.

* Someone remade the opening song of ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OABeWNqZph4 in live action] And it is awesome.