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    Heat is a remake of LA Takedown.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadfly View Post
    Probably a lot more than one...


    "Ten Things i hate About You" with Heath Ledger was "Taming of the shrew"
    "She's All That" with Rachel Lee Cook is Pygmalion
    "Easy A" with Emma Stone is "the Scarlet letter"
    "She's the Man" was Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"
    'Clueless" was Jane Austen's "Emma"
    "Cruel Intentions" was "Dangerous Liaisons"

    Lots of teen movies translated from the classics the kids refused to read.
    (I had a teen daughter in the 90's and had to sit through a lot of these.)
    To be fair, with many of these they were right up front about "X is a remake of Y".
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    Red Dragon is a remake of Manhunter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chance View Post
    It seems like 50% of movies coming out are remakes. They're even re-making 'Home Alone'. I think in another 30 years that Hollywood is going to be remaking their remakes.
    You really think the numbers are that low?

    I can't remember the last time I saw Hollywood have an original idea. Everything is either a remake, reboot, re-imagining, sequel, prequel, or based on an existing book, comic book, play, TV show, musical, video game, amusement park ride, or true story.
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    Clearly Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a remake of The Sound of Music...

    They are remaking Midway.
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    The Bounty was a remake of Mutiny on the Bounty which was a remake of...Mutiny on the Bounty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archangel View Post
    You really think the numbers are that low?

    I can't remember the last time I saw Hollywood have an original idea. Everything is either a remake, reboot, re-imagining, sequel, prequel, or based on an existing book, comic book, play, TV show, musical, video game, amusement park ride, or true story.
    Case in point - The 50 Highest grossing films ever:

    Avengers: Endgame - Sequel, comic book
    Avatar - Blue Pocahontas
    Titanic - Real event
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Sequel
    Avengers: Infinity War - Sequel, comic book
    Jurassic World - Sequel, book
    The Avengers - Comic Book, sorta-sequel
    Furious 7 - Sequel
    Avengers: Age of Ultron - Sequel, comic book
    Black Panther - Comic Book, sorta-sequel
    The Lion King - Remake, Hamlet
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 - Sequel, book
    Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Sequel
    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Sequel, book
    Frozen - Book, albeit pretty loosely based by the time the movie was finished
    Beauty and the Beast - Remake, existing book / tale
    Incredibles 2 - Sequel
    The Fate of the Furious - Sequel
    Iron Man 3 - Sequel, comic book
    Minions - Sequel
    Captain America: Civil War - Sequel, comic book
    Aquaman - Comic Book
    Captain Marvel - Comic Book, sorta-prequel
    Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Sequel, TV show, comic book
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Book
    Skyfall - Sequel
    Transformers: Age of Extinction - Sequel, TV show, comic book
    Spider-Man: Far From Home - Sequel, comic book
    The Dark Knight Rises - Sequel, comic book
    Toy Story 3 - Sequel
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Sequel, amusement park ride
    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Prequel
    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - Sequel, amusement park ride
    Aladdin - Remake, existing book / tale
    Despicable Me 3 - Sequel
    Jurassic Park - Book
    Finding Dory - Sequel
    Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace - Prequel
    Alice in Wonderland - Book
    Zootopia - ... I think this might actually be an original story!
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Book
    The Dark Knight - Sequel, comic book
    Toy Story 4 -Sequel
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Book
    Despicable Me 2 - Sequel
    The Lion King - remake, based on Hamlet
    The Jungle Book - remake, book
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Sequel, amusement park ride
    Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - Sequel, book
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 - Sequel, book


    (This is not to say that there aren't good, well made, enjoyable movies in there. But good =/= original.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chance View Post
    I think in another 30 years that Hollywood is going to be remaking their remakes.
    Do you even "spiderman," bro?




    "Pan’s Labyrinth" is a variation of "the elfin knight," an old ballad that was the forerunner of songs like "Scarborough Fair" (Carthy or Simon/Garfunkle) and which was itself a variation of the folktale category ‘clever girl,’ as cataloged in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index as type 875–a stand-alone motive found in folkloric traditions throughout the Indo-European languages. There really isn’t much new under the sun.

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    Home work:

    Sit down with a yellow legal pad, or if you're cool, with a new Scrivener project, and come up with a new project with a premise, theme, concept, hook, inciting incident, first plot point, first pinch point, second plot point, second pinch point and third plot point that are all original.

    Go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lester Polfus View Post
    Home work:

    Sit down with a yellow legal pad, or if you're cool, with a new Scrivener project, and come up with a new project with a premise, theme, concept, hook, inciting incident, first plot point, first pinch point, second plot point, second pinch point and third plot point that are all original.

    Go.
    All I got is a sequel to "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off," where he’s the POTUS, Mia Sara's character (Sloane) is the first lady and Cameron is the VP. They’re tying to ditch the Secret Service so Ferris and Sloane can have just one date night all by themselves. Hilarity and international drama ensues. I’m tellin’ ya, this one will be big for the Holiday season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lester Polfus View Post
    Home work:

    Sit down with a yellow legal pad, or if you're cool, with a new Scrivener project, and come up with a new project with a premise, theme, concept, hook, inciting incident, first plot point, first pinch point, second plot point, second pinch point and third plot point that are all original.

    Go.
    Nope, can't do it. Anything we could come up with has already been done by Shakespeare.

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