Editing Remake (section)

==Film==
{{See also|Lists of film remakes}}
[[File:Ben hur 1959 poster.jpg|thumb|''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' remake]]
A [[film remake]] uses an earlier movie as its main source material, rather than returning to the earlier movie's source material. The 2001 film ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'' is a remake of 1960's ''[[Ocean's 11]]'', while 1989's ''[[Batman (1989 film)|Batman]]'' is a re-interpretation of the comic book source material which also inspired 1966's ''[[Batman (1966 film)|Batman]]''. In 1998, [[Gus Van Sant]] produced an [[Psycho (1998 film)|almost shot-for-shot remake]] of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1960 film ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]''. The 2025 film ''[[Snow White (2025 film)|Snow White]]'' is a [[live-action]] remake of the [[animated]] 1937 film ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]''.

With the exception of [[shot-for-shot]] remakes, most remakes make significant changes in character, plot, genre, and theme.<ref name="digitalcommons.liberty/masters/7">{{cite book |last1=Haygood |first1=Ashley |title=<!-- The Rise of Controversial Content in Film -->The Climb of Controversial Film Content |date=1 May 2007 |publisher=[[Liberty University]] |url=<!-- https://www.proquest.com/openview/3ac16f87bc4089029de864f45e0ba3c7/1 -->https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/7/ |quote=Master of Arts Dissertation, Mass Communication; This study looks at the change in controversial content in films during the 20th century. Original films made prior to 1968 and their remakes produced after were compared in the content areas of profanity, nudity, sexual content, alcohol and drug use, and violence.}}</ref> For example, the 1968 film ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair]]'' is centered on a bank robbery, while its [[The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film)|1999 remake]] involves the theft of a valuable painting. The 1999 remake of ''[[The Mummy (1999 film)|The Mummy]]'' was viewed primarily as a "reimagining" in a different genre (adventure). 

Similarly, when the 1969 film ''[[The Italian Job]]'' was [[The Italian Job (2003 film)|remade in 2003]], few aspects were carried over. Another example is the 1932 film ''[[Scarface (1932 film)|Scarface]]'' which was [[Scarface (1983 film)|remade in 1983]] starring [[Al Pacino]]; the 1932 version is about the illegal alcohol trade, while the characters in the 1983 version are cocaine smugglers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lehman |first1=Peter |last2=Luhr |first2=William |title=Thinking about Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying |date=1 October 2018 |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=9781118337561 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZClxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 |access-date=22 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

Sometimes a remake is made by the same director. For example, [[Yasujirō Ozu]]'s black-and-white ''[[A Story of Floating Weeds]]'' was remade into the color ''[[Floating Weeds]]''. Hitchcock remade his 1934 black-and-white ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' in color [[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|in 1956]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Man Who Knew Too Much |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82739/the-man-who-knew-too-much/#articles-reviews?articleId=104984 |website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> ''[[Tick Tock Tuckered]]'', released in 1944, was a color remake of ''[[Porky's Badtime Story]]'', released in 1937 with [[Daffy Duck]] in [[Gabby Goat]]'s role. [[Cecil B. DeMille]] managed the same thing with his [[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|1956 remake]] of his silent 1923 film ''[[The Ten Commandments (1923 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''. [[Sam Raimi]] directed ''[[Evil Dead II|Evil Dead 2]]'' in 1987, a quasi-remake of his 1981 film ''[[The Evil Dead]]'', blending original elements with an emphasis on comedy.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 10 Best Horror Movie Remakes of All Time |url=https://nofspodcast.com/the-10-best-horror-movie-remakes-of-all-time |website=Nightmare on Film Street}}</ref> In 2007, [[Michael Haneke]]' remake ''[[Funny Games (2007 film)|Funny Games]]'', was an [[English-language]] remake of his original [[German-language]] ''[[Funny Games (1997 film)|Funny Games]]'' (this is also an example of a shot-for-shot remake), while [[Martin Campbell]], director of the miniseries ''[[Edge of Darkness]]'', directed the [[Edge of Darkness (2010 film)|2010 film adaptation]].

Not all remakes use the same title as the previously released version; the 1966 film ''[[Walk, Don't Run (film)|Walk, Don't Run]]'', for example, is a remake of the [[World War II]] comedy ''[[The More the Merrier]]''. This is particularly true for films that are remade from films produced in another language such as ''[[Point of No Return (1993 film)|Point of No Return]]'' (from the French ''{{Lang|fr|[[La Femme Nikita (film)|La Femme Nikita]]}}''), ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'' (from the Spanish ''{{Lang|es|[[Abre los ojos]]}}''), ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' (from the Japanese ''[[Seven Samurai]]''), ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' (from the Japanese ''[[Yojimbo (film)|Yojimbo]]''), ''[[The Departed]]'' (from Hong Kong's ''[[Infernal Affairs]]''), ''[[Secret in Their Eyes]]'' (from the Argentine ''{{Lang|es|[[El secreto de sus ojos]]}}''), ''[[Let Me In (film)|Let Me In]]'' (from the Swedish ''[[Let the Right One In (film)|Let the Right One In]]'' or ''{{Lang|sv|Låt den rätte komma in}}''), and ''[[The Ring (2002 film)|The Ring]]'' (from the Japanese ''[[Ring (1998 film)|Ring]])''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laemmerhirt |first1=Iris-Aya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHqiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149 |title=Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States |date=31 March 2014 |publisher= |isbn=9783839426005 |location=[[Bielefeld]] |page=149 |language=en |access-date=23 July 2021}}</ref>

Remakes are rarely [[film sequel|sequels]] to the original film. In this situation, essentially the remake repeats the same basic story of the original film and may even use the same title, but also contains notable plot and storyline elements indicating the two films are set in "the same universe". An example of this type of remake is the 2000 film version of ''[[Shaft (2000 film)|Shaft]],'' which was the second film adaptation of the [[Shaft (novel)|original novel]] but was also a canon storyline sequel to the [[Shaft (1971 film)|original 1971 film adaptation]]. The 2013 remake of ''[[Evil Dead (2013 film)|Evil Dead]]'' was also a storyline sequel, featuring a post-credits cameo from [[Ash Williams]].

The Italian film ''[[Perfect Strangers (2016 film)|Perfect Strangers]]'' (''{{lang|it|Perfetti sconosciuti}}''; 2016) was included in the [[Guinness World Records]] as it became the most remade film in cinema history, with a total of 18 versions of the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://video.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/perfetti-sconosciuti-da-guinness-la-commedia-di-genovese-e-il-film-con-piu-remake-di-sempre/339676/340267|title='Perfetti Sconosciuti' da Guinness, la commedia di Genovese è il film con più remake di sempre|date=2019-07-15|website=Repubblica Tv - la Repubblica.it|language=it|access-date=2019-07-16}}</ref>