Who Did The Best Job of Remaking Their Own Movie?
by dgranger | created - 1 month ago | updated - 1 month ago | PublicA very few directors have actually remade their own movie. I mean they are the directors of both films, re-shot the entire film with different actors with slightly different, but basically still the same story. They may change the title little bit, but it is easy to see that it is a re-make. Who did the best job of re-making their own film? if any of you film aficionados (used with great respect here) have som to suggest, come to this small re-make film festival on this page.
1. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
“The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1934) and (1956) . Both are entertaining.
2. Howard Hawks
Director | Red River
What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...
Rio Bravo (1959) and El Dorado (1966). Hawks just mixed up the elements to the story in the 2nd one. Both are entertaining.
3. Cecil B. DeMille
Producer | The Ten Commandments
His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New ...
4. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
5. George Sluizer
Director | Spoorloos
George Sluizer was born on June 25, 1932 in Paris, France. He was a director and producer, known for The Vanishing (1988), La balsa de piedra (2002) and Dying to Go Home (1996). He was married to Anne Sluizer. He died on September 20, 2014 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
Spoorloos (1988) the original in Dutch, and The Vanishing (1993) in English. (Submitted by gromit82)
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