Directors Who Re-Made Their Own Movies
Submitted by Imposter on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 08:04
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- Géla Babluani
- 13 Tzameti (2005) - 13 (2010)
- Ole Bornedal
- Nattevagten (1994) - Nightwatch (1997)
- Tod Browning
- Outside The Law (1920) - Outside The Law (1930)
- London After Midnight (1927) - Mark Of The Vampire (1935)
- Frank Capra
- Lady For A Day (1933) - Pocketful Of Miracles (1961)
- Broadway Bill (1934) - Riding High (1950)
- Boaz Davidson
- Eskimo Limon (1978) - The Last American Virgin (1982)
- Fernando de Fuentes
- Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936) - Allá en el Rancho Grande (1949)
- William C. de Mille
- The Ragamuffin (1916) - The Splendid Crime (1925)
- Cecil B. DeMille
- The Squaw Man (1914) - The Squaw Man (1918) - The Squaw Man (1931)
- The Ten Commandments (1923) - The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Henri Diamant-Berger
- Les trois mousquetaires (1921) - Les trois mousquetaires (1933)
- Julien Duvivier
- Poil de carotte (1925) - Poil de carotte (1932)
- John Farrow
- Five Came Back (1939) - Back From Eternity (1956)
- Emilio Fernández
- Enamorada (1946) - The Torch (1950)
- Jesus Franco
- Eugenie (1970) - Eugenie (Historia de una perversión) (1980)
- Sidney Franklin
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) - The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
- Rafael Gil
- El Hombre que se quiso matar (1942) - El Hombre que se quiso matar (1970)
- Michael Haneke
- Funny Games (1998) - Funny Games (2008)
- Howard Hawks
- Ball Of Fire (1941) - A Song Is Born (1948)
- Alfred Hitchcock
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
- Kon Ichikawa
- The Burmese Harp (1956) - The Burmese Harp (1985)
- Dick Maas
- De Lift (1983) - Down (2001)
- George Marshall
- Destry Rides Again (1939) - Destry (1954)
- Leo McCarey
- Love Affair (1939) - An Affair To Remember (1957)
- Andy Milligan
- The Ghastly Ones (1968) - Legacy of Blood (1978)
- A.R. Murugadoss
- Ganiji (2005) - Ganiji (2008)
- William A. O'Connor
- The Pace That Kills (1928) - The Pace That Kills (1935)
- Juan Orol
- Madre querida (1935) - Madre querida (1951)
- Yasujiro Ozu
- I Was Born, But... (1932) - Good Morning (1959)
- A Story Of Floating Weeds (1934) - Floating Weeds (1959)
- Late Spring (1949) - Late Autumn (1960)
- The Pang Brothers
- Bangkok Dangerous (1999) - Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
- Benito Perojo
- El Negro que tenía el alma blanca (1927) - El Negro que tenía el alma blanca (1934)
- Jean-Marie Poiré
- Les Visiteurs (1993) - Just Visiting (2001)
- Florián Rey
- La Aldea maldita (1930) - La Aldea maldita (1942)
- Ismael Rodriguez
- Maldita ciudad (un drama comico) (1954) - Corrupcion (1984)
- Takashi Shimizu
- Ju-On: The Grudge (2003) - The Grudge (2004)
- Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003) - The Grudge 2 (2006)
- George Sluizer
- Spoorloos (1988) - The Vanishing (1993)
- Roger Vadim
- ...And God Created Woman (1956) - And God Created Woman (1988)
- Francis Veber
- Les Figitifs (1986) - Three Fugitives (1989)
- Raoul Walsh
- High Sierra (1941) - Colorado Territory (1949)
- Jerry Warren
- Teenage Zombies (1959) - Frankenstein Island (1981)
- Stephen Weeks
- Gawain And The Green Knight (1973) - Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
- Paul Wegener
- Der Golem (1915, co-directed with Henrik Galeen) - Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920, co-directed with Carl Boese)
- James Whale
- The Kiss Before The Mirror (1933) - Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
- John Woo
- Once A Thief (1991) - Once A Thief (1996)
- William Wyler
- These Three (1936) - The Children's Hour (1961)
Author Comments:
I was reading today of the passing of director Kon Ichikawa and remembered that he directed another version of his beautiful The Burmese Harp in the 1980s. Then I wondered how many other directors did remakes of their own films, and came up with these. Anybody else who should be on here?
ETA: Updated with info from this IMDB link (thanks to dgeiser13).
Do you really think Evil Dead 2 is a remake of Evil Dead?
I haven't seen the original myself, but I could've sworn I've read in a few spots that ED2 was basically a remake of the original with more money and better production. Not the case?
I've seen them both and 2 didn't seem like a remake to me. Although it did have some overlapping storyline. So I look around and found this, Evil Dead 2: Remake or Not, from Wikipedia which is a synopsis of Raimi's own words from the DVD commentary track. That explains the overlapping story. So I would say, no.
Great idea for a list! The only pair I've seen are Sluizer's two versions of The Vanishing--the American version isn't too bad, but the original is such a great film. Question: would you say that the remake is usually more accomplished than the original (because of higher budgets, access to better actors, etc.)?
Johnny Waco
You mean remakes in general? In some cases they get more money and more famous talent, but that doesn't always translate into something worthy. With Sluizer's efforts, the original was great storytelling, whereas the remake, from what little I've seen, was pretty weak all around.
No, not remakes in general (which are often inferior), but specifically remakes by the same director as the original. I wonder if, when the same director mounts a remake, if the resulting film tends to be more accomplished or if something vital is often lost in covering the same ground again. For instance, with Sluizer, what caused the bigger-budget, English-language version of The Vanishing to be so inferior to the original? Pressure from a studio to be more accesible?
Johnny Waco
Ah, that's what I thought you were getting at. In some of these cases the directors were probably asked to remake their earlier films because they achieved some level of success in their environment (note that a few of these resulted in an English language remake, like Sluizer's), and for others it was likely a case of the director wondering how he'd handle the story in a more contemporary setting (thinking of Capra and Hitchcock here). Either way, it's like trying to get lightning to strike twice. It's gotta be pretty difficult to replicate a particular mix of acting talent, writing, directing, and maybe even the catering a second time.
Strangely enough IMDB has a keyword tag for this which I didn't expect to find: Remake by Original Director. I love IMDB.
Man....I don't know if I should be relieved or pissed.
No need to be pissed. I have a few speciality lists of my own on here that are easily resolved by a nice IMDB keyword. Hasn't stopped me from plugging on. :-)
Neato. There are a lot more of these than I thought.
The Bearded Lord Lucas
Star Wars (1977) - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997)
What about Michael Bay? Different plot, same 'splosions.