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3->''"The90s saw a wave of middle-brow adaptations of The Bard's plays, often taking them to new and interesting territory. There was Theatre/HenryIV with rent boys, a Fascist Theatre/RichardIII, Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew in High School, Theatre/{{Hamlet}} with lions, Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet with seizures..."''
4-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle Kallgren]]''', while reviewing another Shakespeare update, ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet''[[note]]and referring to, respectively: ''Film/MyOwnPrivateIdaho'', ''Film/RichardIII'', ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', and ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''[[/note]]
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6Adaptations and {{Remake}}s of old stories will frequently move them closer to the production date in time, space or both, even if the original is only a couple of decades old, in a DerivativeWorks kind of CreatorProvincialism. Some updates bring an ancient or medieval story into the modern day and set it in America.
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8Distinct from RecycledWithAGimmick in that the purpose is to make the story more familiar and accessible (as well as cutting production costs), whereas the RecycledWithAGimmick trope is often based around transplanting a story into a ''less'' familiar setting such as a moon colony or alien galaxy. Also, by its nature, a Setting Update is typically made long after the original, whereas a RecycledPremise is usually a copy made [[FollowTheLeader to cash in on hot demand]]. Sometimes, especially with the more radical changes, it can be a genuinely clever analogy. As well, if the source work has ZeeRust or dated offensive references, this is a good time to update these too.
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10Please do ''not'' describe examples in the RecycledInSpace style. Also, please do not just state the name of the work, as that is a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, and zero context examples are not allowed on the Wiki. Please explain how the example demonstrates this trope.
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12Related to ComicBookTime for long running series. Also related to {{Retcon}}. Compare AdaptationalLocationChange. Contrast {{Revival}} which ''continues'' the story with updated elements. SuperTrope to ModernAUFic, which is a sub-trope of this applied to fan-works. Attempted aversion of this trope sometimes results in PresentDayPast anyway.
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20* There's an older [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lylhnLlMCE Hungarian TV commercial]] from the 2000s that briefly adapts and updates the medieval legend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus Saint Hubertus]] to a contemporary setting (complete with modern hunting crossbow). Granted, it [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane might not be entirely literal]], as the elderly storyteller in this brief ad is implied to be an UnreliableNarrator spinning a cautionary yarn.
21* ''Advertising/TheMythOfOrpheusAndEurydice'' takes the tale from Ancient Greece to modern-day New York City, with modern fashions to match.
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25* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' is ''Manga/SailorMoon'' [-IN 2014!-] Compared to the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] and [[Anime/SailorMoon original anime]]'s 1992 setting, it features updated tech. Though a cellphone is seen in Act 1, it's much more noticeable in Act 2, where the computers are much more modern than those in the manga and '90s anime (in particular, Usagi has a pink laptop with a bunny decal on it). ''Crystal'' does retain the original [[VideoArcade Game Center Crown]], (2003's [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon tokusatsu version]] updated it to a karaoke bar) but though the industry is [[http://kotaku.com/what-could-kill-japanese-arcades-1552675093 contracting]], arcades remain relatively popular in Japan, unlike the west. However, the actual ''Sailor V'' video game is something of an aversion, looking like an early '90s platformer, which is somewhat odd considering [[IKnowMortalKombat the reason]] [[Manga/CodenameSailorV the game was created]]. Maybe it's supposed to be {{Retraux}} in-universe?
26* While ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' isn't set in any discernible time period (since it's a fantasy series), the 2011 remake features updated technology. Flip-phones are changed to smartphones, and VHS tapes are changed to [=DVDs=]. It's extremely noticeable when comparing it to the 1999 adaptation and earlier parts of the manga.
27* This happens whenever a manga from The70s or The80s gets new adaptations. For example the ''Manga/DearBrother'' manga is from the early 70s, while the TV series is from the early 90s; the "Oniisama" Takehiko Henmi is seen writing his thesis in a typing machine in the manga, but he uses an early desktop computer (floppy disks included) in the anime.
28* A ''very'' subtle one in ''Manga/DeathNote'' where the anime is set three years later than the manga, only really noticeable through the use of dates in the series.
29* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' has the characters using modern technology such as laptops and touch-screen phones and wearing modern hair/clothing styles. The original manga was serialized from [[The80s 1988]] through [[The90s 1995]], while the anime aired in [[TheNew10s 2014-2015]].
30* ''Anime/RanpoKitanGameOfLaplace'' is Ranpo Edogawa novels in 2015.
31* ''Manga/BlackJack'':
32** ''Young Black Jack'' is ''Manga/BlackJack'' [-AS A {{BISHOUNEN}} IN THE '60s!-] (Note this one zigzags this trope by going backwards chronologically, but specifically changing the protagonist to make it marketable by the 2015 trend of female {{Fanservice}}.)
33** The series of [[The90s the late '90s]] already used this trope, being set in these years and using technology to match like the internet, smartphones, computers, etc. i.e., a case involves two ill boys [[spoiler: lying to each other about their accomplishments]], which they did through letters in the original and through e-mails in the '90s series.
34* The ''Manga/WanderingSon'' anime changes the story from the mid-to-late 2000s to the early 2010s. It's not that noticeable besides cellphones being more common and some technology changes. For example, Nitori and Mako recording their voices using a tapeplayer is changed to them recording their voices on their cellphones.
35* ''The New Adventures of Anime/{{Gigantor}}'' takes place [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the early 21st century]] while the original takes place shortly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
36* The ''Manga/SgtFrog'' anime updated the manga's [[ComicBookTime initial setting]] from 1999 to 2004. Notably, this changes Angol Mois' time for waking up from right on schedule to five years late. The English dub of the anime updated it from 2004 to 2009, purely to comically contradict the dates shown in-series.
37* To celebrate the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' anime's 20th anniversary, there was an one-hour anime special re-telling the first episodes. It included some changes to reflect the actual times, like Sherry [[spoiler: (the still-not-shrunk Ai Haibara)]] using a very modern computer to [[spoiler: analyze the effects of the FountainOfYouth drug]] or Gin taking pictures with a smartphone rather than an actual photo camera.
38* The ''Manga/LaughingSalesman'' second anime adaptation, ''Laughing Salesman NEW'', is set around 2015 [[note]]In Episode 8, the bartender has a bottle of wine that was made in 2015, according to the bottle's label.[[/note]] as the original adaptation didn't have computers or smartphones. ''NEW'' also retells some of the episodes from the original and places them in a modern setting with some changes.
39* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': The original light novels are set in the early 2000s, when the first few novels were published. The anime updates the setting to the early 2010s.
40* ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'': The manga takes place in the [[The70s 1970s]], while ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'', one of the more faithful adaptations, updates the setting to [[TheNew10s 2018]]. And as a cautionary tale of war and man's capacity for cruelty, [[ValuesResonance it still resonates just as strongly]].
41* The ''Manga/BananaFish'' anime takes place in TheNew10s rather than [[The80s 1985]] when the manga began.
42* Minor example in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'', which takes place about 15 months later than ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Gears of Destiny]]'' did. Of course, the movie takes place within an already established timeline, so they could only move it so far forwards.
43* ''[[Manga/MangaShakespeare Manga Romeo and Juliet]]'' is ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' set in [-2000s JAPAN!-]
44* The Japanese novel ''Literature/RunWithTheWind'' was published in 2006. The 2018-9 anime adaptation is appropriately set much later and incorporates the use of modern technology into the story, such as using mobile phones to video-call each other and the creation of their internet homepage.
45* The ''VideoGame/FZero'' games take place in the 2500s but ''Anime/FZeroGPLegend'' takes place in 2201.
46* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' hints at this by ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'', where Ash is given a smartphone to double as his Pokédex. Before then, calls were usually done at Pokemon Centers and telephone booths. This is lampshaded by Team Rocket, who are shocked to learn that Goh has no clue what a telephone booth is despite being [[NotAllowedToGrowUp the same age as Ash]] when he started [[ComicBookTime his Pokémon journey back in 1997]].
47* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'' updates the setting to 2020 instead of 1999, which means smartphones are everywhere and Izzy's signature laptop now doubles as a tablet.
48* ''Anime/TheWonderfulGalaxyOfOz'' is set in the mid-21st century instead of in the early 20th century.
49* ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers'' is Creator/JohnFord's ''Film/ThreeGodfathers'' relocated to modern-day downtown Tokyo, with three homeless people replacing the Western outlaws.
50* The original Japanese edition of ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' sets the date of Tokyo's destruction to December 2, 1982, which happens to be the date in which the manga itself made its debut on ''Weekly Young Magazine''. In the English adaptations this was moved to 1992 in order to keep the story futuristic. As a result, the actual date of the story was also moved from 2019 to 2029.
51* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Downplayed. The 2022 remake of the series follows up on the story and seems to still be set in the '80s, however, the OP of the series is distinctively upgraded to reflect TheNew20s, featuring things like Ataru using Tinder and Lum making [=TikTok=] videos, as well as dressed in modern fashion, which is shown to be a dream Ataru woke up from near the end of the OP.
52* ''Anime/KatriGirlOfTheMeadows'': The original novel was set in the 1930s, but the anime bumps it up one decade letter amongst a World War I backdrop.
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56* ''Animation/HelloJadoo'': The original manhwa was set somewhere between the year 1978-1980. The animation is apparently set in a more modern time since a computer (though not an advanced looking model) can be seen in the opening.
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60* Caravaggio's ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calling_of_St_Matthew Calling of saint Matthew]]'' sets the biblical scene into the time of early 17th century.
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64* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' imprint is early(ish) Creator/MarvelComics in the '00s. Earlier ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' comics (formerly known as ''Marvel Age'') were the same thing, only child-friendly, and they directly adapted older Marvel comics.
65* In Creator/MarvelComics or Creator/DCComics superhero lines, almost any retelling of a character's origin will fall into this category, especially as regards technology, the status of minorities and who the President is. The only exceptions are characters whose origins are [[RefugeeFromTime fixed in history]], e.g., ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. (That said, compare the versions of Cap's awakening in the modern day from the original in ''Avengers'' #4-10 (when he was only 20 years out of date, and most of the changes to the world would have been at least just barely understandable), and the ''Captain America: Man Out of Time'' miniseries for a perfect example of this trope.)
66** DC and Marvel update their universes gradually since they've been publishing comics continuously for decades, and because the Marvel Universe doesn't reboot as often its continuity is maintained in BroadStrokes, sometimes resulting in modern stories where characters recall events from issues written in the 1960s. It's generally accepted by readers that most of the stories from both companies take place during the time they were written, unless noted otherwise.
67* Creator/JeffLemire's ''The Nobody'' is ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'' transplanted to The90s.
68* The ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersBoomStudios'' comic is a BroadStrokes adaptation of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original TV show]], but with the setting changed from the early '90s to 2015.
69* Each ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' book is set in the year it was first published, despite the title character not aging much, if at all. The result is that Tintin himself looks just about the same from 1931's ''The Blue Lotus'' right through to 1976's ''Tintin and the Picaros''. Other recurring characters take it even further - most notably General Alcazar, who resembles a formal-style [[TheGeneralissimo 1930s military dictator]] in ''The Broken Ear'', but in ''Tintin and the Picaros'' his dress sense resembles that of UsefulNotes/FidelCastro or UsefulNotes/CheGuevara.
70* ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' had a reboot in the early 2010s that updated the series to taking place in modern times.
71* ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' is a reboot of the very '80s ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' that takes place in the 2010s (particularly 2015 at the start).
72* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' uses ComicBookTime, however the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 2015 reboot]] modernizes the series in a way even the newer 'classic universe' comics don't.
73* ''ComicBook/TamaraDrewe'' is ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd'' at a writer's retreat.
74* By the same author, ''Gemma Bovery'' is ''Literature/MadameBovary'' with a British ex-pat in modern France.
75* Creator/VertigoComics' ''Greek Street'' was Myth/ClassicalMythology in modern London.
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79* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfThePrincess'' is a ''Zelda'' fic set in a 1870s equivalent, rather than in a MedievalStasis.
80* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23128741 Gonjiki Yasha – Meiji Onmyōji Tales]]'' is a retelling of ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'' in the Meiji period.
81* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheIcePrincess'' relocates the events of ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' to approximately the present day, allowing Elsa to attend Hogwarts at the same time as Franchise/HarryPotter and his friends.
82* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28245678 The Murderer is Among Us Now]]'' is a Series/{{Poirot}} fic is set in the modern day, specifically in 2020 during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
83* ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'' had the first war against Voldemort last an additional 20 years before its conclusion, meaning Harry Potter's generation was born around 2000 instead of 1980.
84* ''Fanfic/StealTheTruthReachOutForYourHeart'': In order to have [[VideoGame/Persona4 Nanako Dojima]] join the [[VideoGame/Persona5 Phantom Thieves]], the events of ''Persona 5'' are set in 2021 rather than being [[YearX ambiguous]], albeit implied to be set in 2016.
85* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42458583 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunshine is Unbreakable]]'': As a FusionFic between ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' and ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'', the girls Aquors and their school Uranohoshi move from TheNew10s Numazu City to 1999 Morioh Town. It's also mentioned that the events of their predecessor idol group [[Anime/LoveLive "µ's"]] took place between 1987 and 1988.
86* ''Fanfic/DreamOfAcediaBeYourTrueMind'': The events of ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' aren't given an exact year, but there are some details (such as the presence of virtual pets and Sunny's computer being based on Windows 95/98} that place them somewhere between The90s and the TurnOfTheMillennium. Due to crossing over with ''VideoGame/Persona5'', they are instead set in 2019.
87* ''Fanfic/TwoKindsDannyPhantomLadybug'' updates the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' half from its early 2000s setting to the more modern setting of Ladybug.
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91* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' updates the medieval fairy tale to take place in TheBigEasy during TheRoaring20s.
92* Judging from the Victorian-looking fashions, ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' takes place at some point in the 19th century. The opening credits say that the film is adapted from the version written by Creator/CharlesPerrault, who lived two centuries earlier. And, of course, the original folk tale is older even than that.
93* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' is Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'' in 16th-century Central America.
94* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' is very similar to "[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]]", though transplanted to turn-of-the-century Mexico, with an added focus on a cultural holiday - the Day of the Dead.
95* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'' relocates the 1883 novel to the Fascist period.
96* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' is a ''very'' loose adaptation of ''Literature/OliverTwist''. Aside from most of the cast being [[AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation talking animals now]], the setting changes from 1830s London to 1980s New York City.
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100* ''Film/TheTollOfTheSea'' is a silent movie adaptation of ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'', which is set in early 1900s Japan. The film moves it to the 1920s and relocates it to China.
101* ''Franchise/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' is particularly prone to this in adaptations, with the [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938 1938 radio play]], the [[Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953 1953 film]], the [[Series/WarOfTheWorlds1988 1980s TV series]], the [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005 2005 film]] by Creator/StevenSpielberg and the [[Series/WarOfTheWorlds2019 2019 TV series]] moving the setting to the present day from the novel's 1902. Music/JeffWayne's RockOpera [[Music/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds adaptation]] (and the [[VideoGame/JeffWaynesTheWarOfTheWorlds PC game]] based on it), along with the third of the 2005 releases, are the only ones that ''keep'' the original setting.
102* The 2007 film adaptation of ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'' changed the film from taking place post-UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar to being in contemporary times. This caused a lot of the film to be changed in order to fit 2000s standards. For example, Jesse's living conditions are changed, Leslie's design was [[YouDontLookLikeYou revamped completely]] because her original look wasn't that "weird" anymore, Jesse was no longer MistakenForGay by his parents for being an artist, and a lot of the ValuesDissonance was removed or edited. Despite the plot and character changes, the slang is still dated, someone forgot to tell the guy in charge of getting a school bus for the movie that it wasn't in The70s anymore, and a few odd elements don't match well in a modern-day setting (Jesse's teacher going on a trip with him alone, Leslie's parents letting her run around in the woods unsupervised, the way [[spoiler:Janice's]] abusive dad is glossed over, etc). WordOfGod is that they were going for a timeless feel, and as such, the movie doesn't have much that would date it to the 2000s.
103* ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' takes place in the [[Main/TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]] instead of during the Cold War. Perhaps the most noticeable difference is the use of Texas hold 'em instead of baccarat due to the rise in popularity of poker at the time. It also helps that Texas hold 'em is a simpler game, more skill-based, and more directly competitive.
104* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' necessitated major changes to the plot of [[Literature/TheBourneSeries the original books]], which were written in the 1970s, since the RippedFromTheHeadlines villains of the books were no longer relevant in the 2000s (one being just a teensy bit ''in prison for the rest of his life'').
105* Literature/TheSaint and Literature/MikeHammer have so far never appeared in film or TV adaptations in period pieces. The Armand Assante remake presented an updated story with Hammer as a Vietnam veteran instead of a Pacific Theater World War II veteran. Even though the last time Stacy Keach played Hammer aired over fifty years since the first appearance of Mike Hammer, it presented an updated story. Roger Moore's [[Series/TheSaint version of The Saint]] debuted over thirty years after the first appearance of the Saint in print in 1928, but presented an updated story, as did subsequent adaptations with Ian Ogilvy, Andrew Clarke, and Simon Dutton. The Val Kilmer film took place in contemporary times, arriving in theaters in 1997-almost seventy years after the Saint's debut.
106* {{Superhero}} films tend to do this, often taking characters and concepts created during the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Ages]] and transplanting their origins to a contemporary setting. For example, the 2008 ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' took place during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror rather than UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, and has Tony Stark kidnapped by an Afghan terrorist group instead of the Viet Cong, while the ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fantastic Four]]'' reboot has the characters gaining their powers in 2015 rather than during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar.
107** The ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' is heavily inspired by the original Lee/Ditko run and stays true to the [[{{Camp}} campy]] Silver Age tone of those comics, except instead of being set in the 1960s, it's the early-to-mid 2000s.
108*** The Spider-Man films update the technology but also address the changes in society since the initial publication of its source material, specifically in the way they handle Peter Parker; since being geeky isn't stigmatized like it was in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the 1960s]], the films (outside of the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' since nerdiness still wasn't in the mainstream at the time) have changed Peter's social status accordingly, with ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', which is set in 2012, initially portraying him as a moody, cool loner to retain his original misfit depiction from the comics, while ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', set in the late 2010s, mostly eschews the misfit thing entirely, portraying him as an easygoing kid who doesn't have as much trouble interacting with his peers and is even respected and valued for his smarts (as seen with his participation in the academic decathlon). Likewise, Flash Thompson goes from being a JerkJock who beats Peter Parker up, to an AcademicAlphaBitch who still bullies him, just not in a way that involves violence or physical strength. Another change to the setting is that Peter's school, and New York itself, is much more racially diverse than the nearly all-white MonochromeCasting of the classic comics, and instead of the Daily Bugle newspaper, J. Jonah Jameson spreads his anti-Spider-Man propaganda through a controversial news site, [=TheDailyBugle.Net=].
109* ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' is Charles Dickens' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' in the 1980s. It works, though, because of the cleverness of using a ShowWithinAShow concept -- the Scrooge analog is producing a live TV adaptation of the original ''A Christmas Carol'', yet clearly misses the point until it happens to him.
110* ''Film/Spirited2022'' is a version of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' set in the modern day, albeit with the main difference being the latter is a musical.
111* This used to be commonplace for Franchise/SherlockHolmes movies. For instance, only the first two of the Rathbone/Bruce series in the 1930s-1940s (the 20th Century Fox ones) took place in the Victorian era, with the twelve Universal films ("Film/TheBakerStreetDozen") set firmly in World War II and later the post-war era.
112* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' is set in the '70s but received two remakes that did this.
113** ''Film/Carrie2002'' is a MadeForTVMovie that updates it to 2002, with the teen characters using cell phones and emails to communicate. Carrie uses the internet to research her powers, rather than books in the library, the testimonials from Carrie's peers are filmed with video cameras rather than transcribed from tape recorders. Additionally, the film adds a small detail where the culprits who killed the pigs get busted with CCTV footage.
114** ''Film/Carrie2013'' addresses cyberbullying, with Chris recording a video of Carrie's traumatic first period and later playing it at the prom -- the video later being used to discredit Chris's father's attempted lawsuit. It's also said that social services stepped in to stop Margaret from home-schooling Carrie.
115* ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': In particular, Mike Teavee's addiction is changed from gangster movies and westerns to violent video games! There are animatronic puppets that malfunction comically! (Strangely enough, when Teavee is confronted with a video game setting inside the factory, he claims that it is "lame".)
116* ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'' and ''Film/KamenRiderTheNext'' are remakes of ''Series/KamenRider'' and ''Series/KamenRiderV3'', but with the setting changed from the 1970s to the TurnOfTheMillennium.
117* The two Allan Quatermain films with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone moved Quatermain forward to the World War I era, not the 1880s and earlier setting of the Creator/HRiderHaggard novels.
118* ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' is ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' and Myth/{{Faust}} in The70s.
119* ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'' was an old Creator/BramStoker novel updated to modern-day for the film adaptation.
120* ''Film/TheATeam'' is an adaptation of [[Series/TheATeam the original series]] with Iraq veterans.
121* The 1998 film version of ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' is set in Florida and New York in the Seventies and Eighties, and Pip's name is changed to Finnegan Bell, among other name changes.
122* ''Film/{{Click}}'' is "The Magic Thread", an old French tale, set in the modern-day United States. The premise of a tv remote control that can control time is taken from an old ''Buster Comics'' strip called ''Vid Kid''.
123* ''Huck and the King of Hearts'' is ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' in the 1990s, with a truck instead of a raft.
124* The original sci-fi story ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' was written in the 1930s. ''Film/TheThing1982'' gave the year as 1982, the same year it was released.
125* ''Theatre/HeddaGabler'''s 2004 American film adaptation moves the setting to present-day Wenatchee, WA.
126* ''Film/CastAway'' is ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' in the [[The90s mid-late 1990s]] with [[CompanionCube a volleyball]] as Friday.
127** Older still is ''Film/LtRobinCrusoeUSN'' from The60s.
128* ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'' in modern-day America. (It's even given an InspirationNod with the name of Meg Ryan's bookstore.)
129* The LiveActionAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' was updated to The90s.
130* ''Film/WeirdScience'' was adapted from a 1950s comic book story and updated for The80s' home computer age.
131* ''Film/Annie2014'' is set in ThePresentDay rather than The30s, averting the PoliticallyCorrectHistory of ''Film/Annie1999''. This produces several other changes, such as Miss Hannigan running a foster home instead of an orphanage.
132* ''Film/DDay'' was a remake of ''Film/{{Commando}}'' with the setting changed from 1985 to 2008. As such, some scenes were changed around, for instance a scene in the original where a henchman is desperately looking for a pay phone was swapped to a water park so the remake's henchman was in swimming trunks and doesn't have a phone on him.
133* The Franchise/UniversalHorror films ''Film/Frankenstein1931'' and ''Film/Dracula1931'' are both based on books written in the 19th century, but the films take place in the then-present day.
134* The 2001 MadeForTVMovie ''Murder on the Orient Express'' is [[Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress the original novel]] transplanted to the TurnOfTheMillennium.
135* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' is [[Literature/{{Matilda}} the original novel]] transplanted to 1990s America. Miss Trunchbull, however, [[EvilBrit remains British]].
136* ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'' is subtle in its update from the 1930s to the early 1960s. The major difference is that television exists.
137* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' is a very loose adaptation of the 1980s ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' cartoon taking place in the 2010s.
138* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' is a loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', which is set during the Scramble for Africa period in the Congo, showing the savageries carried out in the name of imperialism. The film updates this setting to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar when the U.S. intervened in Southeast Asia, showing that WarIsHell.
139* The 2004 adaptation of ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' is set in the time period during and after [[UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar the first Gulf War]], as opposed to the original [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korean War]] setting.
140* A 1998 MadeForTVMovie of ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Through the Looking-Glass]]'' on Creator/Channel4 had a contemporary setting, although the nature of Looking Glass Land is such that this was only obvious in the FramingStory (where Kate Beckinsdale's Alice is [[AgeLift a grown woman]] reading ''Through the Looking-Glass'' to her daughter) and the costuming decisions.
141* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/MaryPoppins'', which moves the story ''back'' in time from the 1930s to the 1910s. ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' takes place 20 years after the first movie, meaning the stories it adapts actually take place in the same decade featured in the books.
142* ''Film/She1965'' updates [[Literature/{{She}} the story]] from "[[YearX 18—]]" to 1918 and makes the heroes a group of recently-demobbed British soldiers.
143* Not that it matters much (since the updated setting is [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed]]), but in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'', Arthur is from an era of videophones rather than one when people "still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea".
144* {{Inverted|Trope}} with ''Film/BloodOfBeasts'', which is ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' in Norse times.
145* ''Ivansxtc'' is a loose adaptation of the Creator/LeoTolstoy novel ''The Death of Ivan Ilych''. The original was set in 19th century UsefulNotes/ImperialRussia, the film is set in 21st century Hollywood.
146* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' {{invert|edTrope}}s this, changing the setting from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
147* The original book ''Literature/{{It}}'', written in 1986, has [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits "The Losers Club"]] meeting in 1957 as teenagers, then reuniting in 1984 as adults. ''Film/It2017'' has them meeting as teenagers in 1988, with [[spoiler:a SequelHook at the end identifying the movie as ''It: Chapter One'']]. Considering the entity "It" is supposed to awaken every 27 years, [[spoiler:''Film/ItChapterTwo'' takes place in 2015]].
148* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' takes place in the '90s, but [[Film/HarryPotter the film adaptations]] ignore this and set them in the years they were made. For example, ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' is set in 2000-2001. It becomes noticeable from [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban the third film]] onwards, in which the fashions are those of the early 2000s rather than the '90s, Mr. Weasley is fascinated by an Oyster Card reader (established in 2003), and the Millennium Bridge features in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince the sixth film]].
149* ''Film/TheMagnificentTrio'' is a very loose adaptation of Hideo Gosha's ''Three Outlaw Samurai'', but the setting has been updated from feudal Japan to Ming Dynasty China.
150* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was set in the '90s. The ContinuityReboot ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' sets it in TheNew10s.
151* The ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'' books were written in the 1950s and '60s. ''Film/Paddington2014'' is set in the modern day, although it leaves the exact time period vague. The biggest change involves Mrs. Bird; she's a live-in housekeeper in the books. Naturally not likely for a modern middle-class English family, so she's said to be a relative.
152* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' is based on a book that was written in the 1970s, but the film takes place in the late '90s... [[InNameOnly not that this is the only difference]].
153* ''Film/BrideAndPrejudice'' is naturally [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen's novel]] in modern-day India. The CultureClash between the Bennets and Bingleys is achieved by making the Bennets Indian, while the Bingleys are second-generation Indians in England. Darcy becomes an American [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]].
154* It's a testimony to how long ethnic Russians have been fighting the peoples of the Caucasus that ''Film/PrisonerOfTheMountains'', set in [[UsefulNotes/TheChechnyaWars the 1990s First Chechen War]], is actually an adaptation of a 120-year-old Creator/LeoTolstoy short story, "Prisoners of the Caucasus".
155* Both adaptations of ''Literature/RedDragon'' -- 1986's ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' and 2002's... erm... ''Red Dragon'' -- update the story from 1979 to an ambiguous point in the mid-'80s. In the case of ''Manhunter'', this was simply a case of making the plot more contemporary, though not without the minor anachronism of [[spoiler:Dolarhyde still seeking out his victims from the 8mm and 16mm home movies he develops for them]], which revolved around a method of technology that was quickly rendered obsolete by the rise of [[spoiler:camcorders]] around the same time. In the 2002 film, the change in setting is more to preserve continuity with the 1991 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', which itself also changes the setting to 1990, the intended year of its release before it got pushed back in favor of ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' (the book version of ''Lambs'' never specifies when it's set but is quietly implied to take place in or just before its publication year of 1988). The 2002 film also better updates the story to fit the new setting by [[spoiler:changing the circumstances of Dolarhyde's job so that he now edits families' camcorder recordings onto a single tape]].
156* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' is set during Victorian England. ''Film/ALittlePrincess1995'' sets it in New York during World War I. As a result, the reason Sara's father leaves her with Miss Minchin is to fight in the war. Becky in the book is a Victorian-era cockney maid but becomes an African-American slave instead.
157* ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'' takes place in a RetroUniverse version of The80s (when the book was published), however, its [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit 1988 film adaptation]] inverts this trope by placing it in The40s.
158* ''Film/{{Pan}}'' takes place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII as opposed to the original play and book's Edwardian setting. As this is an origin story for Peter, those events took place in Victorian times.
159* ''Film/Ebenezer1998'' transplants ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' to the Canadian frontier.
160* ''Film/SummerCampNightmare'' adapts ''Literature/TheButterflyRevolution'' to take place in The80s, complete with music and technology from that era.
161* ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'', in addition to being an AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation, is set in the present day with Dorothy as a would-be pop star, a nightclub called Poppyfields, the Wizard as a Hollywood effects guy, and so on.
162* ''Film/AnAmericanChristmasCarol'' transplants the setting from 1843 London to Depression-era America.
163* ''Film/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld'': References to Baltimore and DC have been removed, creating a more timeless story that would translate better to other areas.
164* Whilst the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' books were implied to take place roughly 10000 years or more from the present day, comments from [[Film/MortalEngines the film adaptation]]'s production designer place the movie at approximately 1700 years from now.
165* ''Film/PetSematary2019'' has Gage and Ellie watch an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' instead of ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
166* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' does ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' in the modern day... with guns.
167* ''Literature/AboutABoy'''s literary counterpart is set in the 1990s, but the film adaptation is in the 2000s. This majorly changes the last part, which in the book deals with Music/KurtCobain's suicide.
168* A 2000 adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' by Michael Almereyda updates the Shakespeare play to the year 2000, with it now concerning a business empire.
169* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/Dumbo2019''. The [[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} original animated film]] was made and set in the 1940s (there's even a brief gag referencing UsefulNotes/WorldWarII), but the live-action remake takes place in the 1920s.
170* ''Film/ShortcutToHappiness'' is a setting update of ''Literature/TheDevilAndDanielWebster'', with the action moved to the publishing world of modern-day Manhattan.
171* Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' is set in pre-WWI, but the movie changes it to post-WWII -- explicitly shown by the song "1921", being changed into "1951".
172* ''Film/KingRalph'' was loosely based on a novel by Emlyn Williams titled ''Headlong''. The book took place during the 1930s, while the movie took place during its time of release in 1991.
173* ''Film/TheFly1986'', being an InNameOnly adaptation of [[Literature/TheFly the 1957 short story]] anyway, is set in the then-present day of 1986, with many of the various technological, scientific, and social advances that happened in the interim proving key to the plot. For instance, the main character is genetically fused with an insect in a TeleporterAccident rather than having his head and hand proportionally swapped with it, and his love interest's videotapes of his work come in handy at one point. When the film was given a ScreenToStageAdaptation into an opera in 2008, the trope was ''inverted'' in its original Paris and Los Angeles stagings to reset the story in the 1950s, although the libretto is vague enough that it can be set in ThePresentDay without alterations (as a later staging in Germany did).
174* The original ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' musical is depicted as taking place contemporarily to the production (which means it was originally set in The80s). The 2019 ''Film/{{Cats}}'' film is set in the GenteelInterbellumSetting of the original poems.
175* ''Film/Scarface1983'' upgrades ''Film/Scarface1932'' swapping UsefulNotes/TheRoaring20s UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and TheMafia with early [[The80s 1980s]] UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} and UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}ns.
176* ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'' is ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' relocated to small-town America in The80s, with C. D. Bates (Cyrano) and Chris (Christian) as firemen.
177* ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'' has a British heist crew organized in London to pull off a caper in Turin. ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' has an American heist crew pull off a caper in Venice only to be betrayed by one of their members. They follow him to Los Angeles to perform another caper out of revenge.
178* The 2002 film adaptation of ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' moves the setting from the book’s year 1880 to 1914 in order to make the movie closer to the present day. Among the changes included are the Fosters owning a Ford Model T, Winnie having to wear a corset (which was outdated by then) and going on a tour of the world. Unfortunately, this last-mentioned change is very problematic, as UsefulNotes/WorldWarI was just around the corner...
179* ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996'' moves the events of [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau the original novel]] to the then-present day of the 1990s. Among other things, tech like radios, computers, and ceiling fans are in use; the music used; Edward Douglas ([[AdaptationNameChange Edward Prendick]] in the book) working for the UN; and (in an element shared with [[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1977 the 1977 film]]) going with {{genetic engineering|IsTheNewNuke}} for the creation of the hybrids.
180* ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' takes the Orpheus and Eurydice myth from Ancient Greece to a futuristic American dystopia with 1980s flair.
181* The 1978 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheBigSleep'' moves the setting from the 1940s to the present day.
182* ''Film/DarkHeritage'' moves the action of ''Literature/TheLurkingFear'' to the PresentDay (i.e., 1989) and changes the locale from LovecraftCountry to TheSavageSouth.
183* ''Film/FireIsland'' is a modern, gay retelling of Regency romance ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''.
184** The Bennet family is reimagined as a five-man friend group of gay men and their [[FagHag lesbian friend/mother figure]] Erin. Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley are now Will and Charlie, rich guys who are staying in a huge house on Fire Island. The desire for Jane to marry Bingley translates to Howie wanting and getting a genuine connection with Charlie, even as Elizabeth analog Noah just wants Howie to get laid and get it over with.
185** The subplot of Lydia's defilement by Wickham becomes [[spoiler:Luke getting a sex tape uploaded to the internet without his consent by Dex]], which Darcy analog Will solves with his legal expertise rather than a ShotgunWedding.
186* ''Literature/TheRedShoes'' was set in 19th-century Denmark. The [[Film/{{The Red Shoes|1948}} 1948 film adaptation]] by Creator/MichaelPowell and Emeric Pressburger moved the setting to [[WorldWarII/TheAftermath post-WWII]] Europe.
187* From ''Film/LesVisiteurs'' to its remake ''Film/JustVisiting'', the medieval part is changed from early 12th century UsefulNotes/{{France}} under [[UsefulNotes/LetatCestMoi Louis VI the Fat]] to late 12th century England under UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond, and the modern-day part from early [[The90s '90s]] France to the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates in the [[TurnOfTheMillennium early 2000s]].
188* ''Film/{{Coriolanus}}'' changes the setting from AncientRome to the present, and evokes the Balkan wars without being specifically set during them.
189* ''Film/QuasimodoDelParis'' is a comedic version of ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' and moves the story from the 15th century to The90s.
190* Both film adaptations of Creator/LeoTolstoy's ''Literature/TheDeathOfIvanIlyich'' move the setting from 19th century Russia to the early 1950s and move the location to match where they were produced. The first, ''Film/{{Ikiru}}'', takes place in Tokyo, while the second, ''Living'', takes place in London.
191* Inverted with ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1949'', which constitutes a notable departure from its source material, presenting a distinct alteration in a temporal context. While [[Literature/TheBlueLagoon the original literary work]] emerged and unfolded within the contemporary milieu of TheEdwardianEra, encompassing an extensive timeframe spanning from 1896 to 1907, the film uniquely transposes the chronology by over five decades. Specifically, the movie relocates the narrative's temporal scope to a duration of eleven years commencing from 1841 and culminating in 1852. This deliberate temporal shift marks a departure from the temporal milieu of the original novel.
192* ''Film/YouAreSoNotInvitedToMyBatMitzvah'': The book takes place in 2005, while the film is set in 2023.
193* ''Literature/ChittyChittyBangBang'' inverts this trop, the book takes place in the 1960s, but the movie adaptation takes place in TheEdwardianEra.
194* ''Film/AnyoneButYou'' is loosely based on ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', transferring the setting from Renaissance Italy to 2023 Australia.
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198* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' [-IN SPACE! WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS-]!
199* Creator/StephenFry's ''The Star's Tennis Balls'' is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [-IN 1990s BRITAIN!-]
200* James Joyce's ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' is ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' [-IN DUBLIN WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE!-] And [-[[MindScrew REALLY CONFUSING!]]-]
201** And Jacob M. Appel's ''The Biology of Luck'' is ''Ulysses'' [-IN NEW YORK!-]
202* Creator/HarryTurtledove's Confederacy series ''Literature/{{Timeline 191}}'' is [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR The Great Patriotic War]] [-IN AMERICA!-] Featherstone is Hitler, Houston/Kentucky is Austria/Sudetenland, [[SignificantAnagram Morrell is Rommel]], and Pittsburgh is Stalingrad.
203* Jane's Smiley's ''Literature/AThousandAcres'' is ''Theatre/KingLear'' [-ON A FARM IN IOWA! FROM GONERIL'S POV!-]
204* ''Literature/TheGreenMile'', according to WordOfGod, is the story of the execution of Jesus [-IN A 1930s PRISON-]
205* Reginald Hill's ''Pictures of Perfection'' is ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' [-OopNorth IN THE 1990s! AS A GAY ROMANCE!-]
206* Will Self's ''Dorian'' is ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' [-IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY-]
207* OlderThanPrint: The Middle English poem ''Sir Orfeo'' is ''Orpheus and Euridyce'' [-IN MEDIEVAL WESSEX, WITH THE KING OF TheFairFolk INSTEAD OF THE GOD OF THE DEAD AND A HAPPY ENDING!-]
208* The Austen Project is all Creator/JaneAusten's novels (but not ''Literature/LadySusan'' or ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'') [-IN 21st CENTURY BRITAIN!-] Starting with ''Sense & Sensibility'' by Joanna Trollope, which is ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' [-WITH SOCIAL MEDIA!-]
209* ''Looking Glass Girl'' by Cathy Cassidy is ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' [-WITH ALICE IN A COMA FOLLOWING AN ACCIDENT (OR WAS IT?) AT A SLEEPOVER!-] Written for the 150th anniversary of ''Alice''.
210* ConversationalTroping in "Pierre Menard, Author of the ''Quixote''" by Creator/JorgeLuisBorges, which declares Menard's identical-to-the-original version of ''Don Quixote'' to be a far superior reinterpretation than "those parasitic books which situate Christ on a boulevard, Hamlet on La Cannebière or Don Quixote on Wall Street".
211* ''Literature/{{Katy}}'' by Jacqueline Wilson is ''Literature/WhatKatyDid'' [-UPDATED TO THE 21ST CENTURY, WITH KATY'S ACCIDENT LEAVING HER PERMANENTLY, NOT TEMPORARILY AS IN THE ORIGINAL, PARALYSED-].
212* ''Literature/Area51'': The 2012 e-book version of the first book updated references to reflect time passing since it was published in 1997. Turcotte reference 9/11, and Von Seeckt no longer states that his birth year was 1918-while fairly plausible then as 79, he'd be 94 when the e-book came out. Of course, the reference to joining the SS in 1940 remains, so if he'd been younger it raises questions. There's only so far a character's age can be pushed (yet the next book says his birth year is 1918 anyway).
213* A rare example of an author doing this with her own work, Creator/LoisDuncan started writing in the '50s and her books were usually {{Unintentional Period Piece}}s. As they were aimed at the YA demographic, she opted to give most of her stories an update in the 2000s - changing the slang and fashions for the most part. She incorporated modern technology, while still finding reasons for characters not to have anything that would have broken the plot.
214* Minor example with ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}},'' when the series was re-released. The TimeTravel book ''Cuckoo Clock of Doom'' originally took place in 1995, while the protagonist's younger sister was born in 1988. The newest edition changes those dates to 2015 and 2008, respectively. Nothing else is changed, though, so for some reason only one of the family's computers has internet access.
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218* ''Series/MoonLovers'' is ''Series/ScarletHeart'' [-IN GORYEO-ERA KOREA!-]
219* ''Series/MrQueen'' is ''Series/GoPrincessGo'' [-IN JOSEON-ERA KOREA!-]
220* ''Series/MissS'' is ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' [-IN 1940S CHINA!-]
221* ''Shakespea Re-Told'' [sic] is blatantly this:
222** ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' takes place in a modern tv studio.
223** ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' [-IN A MODERN DAY RESTURANT!-]
224** ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' [-WITH POLITICIANS!-]
225** ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' [-IN CENTER PARCS!-]
226* ITV did a TV production of ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' [-AS A MODERN DAY COP DRAMA, WITH OTHELLO AS A NEWLY PROMOTED POLICE COMISSIONER AND IAGO AS HIS JEALOUS FORMER PARTNER!-] Worth checking out for Creator/ChristopherEccleston emanating pure malice as [[strike: Iago]] Jago, before being cast as the Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
227* A lot of Creator/AgathaChristie adaptations reverse this trope -- Christie kept publishing new works from 1920 to 1973, and in many of her stories describes contemporary clothes, etc.. But most adaptations of her work have a 1930s design sensibility.
228* ''Too Many Suspects'', the pilot film for ''Series/ElleryQueen'', is set in 1946 despite being based on a 1965 novel -- ''The Fourth Side of the Triangle''--set roughly in the present. While both book and movie have a solution deriving from the victim's TV set, it's more of a novelty in the latter that she even has one.
229* Brazilian soap opera ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Cravo_e_a_Rosa O Cravo e a Rosa]]'' (lit. "The Carnation and the Rose", after a local song) is ''The Taming of the Shrew'' [-IN 1920s SÃO PAULO!-]
230* Spoofed in a Creator/Channel4 documentary about ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', which reinvented it as [-AS A GLOSSY AMERICAN SOAP!-] to make a point. The Ghost was replaced by a VideoWill, and the Oedipal undertones rapidly became text.
231* ''Series/{{Kings}}'' is the [[Literature/TheBible biblical]] story of King Saul and David [-IN SOME SORT OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE CLOSELY RESEMBLING MODERN AMERICA!-]
232* Based on the premise, ''Series/StargateUniverse'' may be ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''... [-IN THE PRESENT!-]
233* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is ''ComicBook/XMen'' [-IN THE REAL WORLD!-]
234* There are two unrelated Russian TV miniseries, ''Graf Krestovsky'' (''Count Krestovsky'') and ''Favorsky'', both of which are ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [-IN PRESENT-DAY RUSSIA!-] And now there's a '''third''' one, aptly named ''Montekristo''...
235* ''Cosmo and George'' is ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' [-IN SINGAPORE! WITH MINDY AS AN INDIAN GUY!-]
236* ''Series/ShastaMcNasty'' is ''Series/TheMonkees'' [-IN 1999! WITH RAP-ROCK INSTEAD OF BUBBLEGUM POP (AND A LOT MORE PERVING ON THEIR NEIGHBORS)!-]
237* There's a BBC ''Macbeth'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV25yBl9VkM&list=PLC79AF51422D5BDB7 made in 1997]] and starring James Frain and Creator/RayWinstone, set in [-A PRESENT DAY SLUM!-]
238* ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'' is effectively ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' [-OUT OF SPACE!-], much more pronouncedly so after the end of ''TNG'''s run. (In the first ''[=seaQuest=]'' episode after ''TNG'' ended, an alien race arrives in a ship whose design was quite obviously lifted from that of the Borg Cube.)
239* Currently making waves across east Asia, the Korean revenge drama ''Cruel Temptation'' is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [-IN MODERN TIMES WITH GENDERFLIPS!-]
240* ''Series/ChoujinkiMetalder'' is ''[[Series/{{Kikaider}} Android Kikaider]]'' [-SET IN THE The80s WITH A UsefulNotes/WorldWarII BACKDROP!-]
241* Creator/Channel4 schools programmes about Shakespeare often did this: ''Julius Caesar'' [-AS A MODERN DAY POLITICIAN! WITH MARK ANTHONY'S FINAL SPEECH BEING TELEVISED!-]; ''Macbeth'' [-ON A COUNCIL ESTATE! WITH TEENAGE WITCHES ON ROLLERBLADES!-]; ''Twelfth Night'' [-WITH THE ROUND SUNG BY SIR TOBY AND FESTE AS A RAP!-] Since they only did a couple of scenes, they didn't have to maintain the concept for the whole play.
242* Creator/Channel4 again, ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' [-IN MODERN DAY SCOTLAND, ONLY IT'S STILL AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY!-]
243* Creator/TheBBC did a version of ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' [-IN THE MID 20TH CENTURY! WITH SEBASTIAN AND VIOLA AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!-]
244* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' is ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' [-IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY!-]
245* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', one-ups ''Sherlock'' by moving the action to [[BigApplesauce New York]] and making Watson an [[RaceLift Asian]] [[GenderFlip woman]].
246* ''Series/DaimajinKanon'' is a remake of the original film, but with the setting changed to TheNew10s.
247* The 1991 prime time revival of ''Series/DarkShadows'' was essentially the same as the classic series with the modern story arcs updated from the mid-to-late 1960s/early 1970s to the early 1990s. The aborted 2004 WB version would have once again updated the modern portions of the series to the then present day.
248* ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' still takes place in Tokyo, but in 2004 rather than 1992 like in the original [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]]. As such, the technology and fashion are updated accordingly, with the communicators and Disguise Pen replaced by magical cell phones that served the same purpose. The original anime had the LocalHangout as an arcade, which had fallen from popularity in the 2000s, so Crown becomes a karaoke parlor, with the girls getting mission briefings from a private room.
249* With ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'''s episodes being based off of episodes from the [[Series/LawAndOrder original series]], not only did the dialogue need to be "translated" into UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish, but it also needed to be updated to reflect modern times; technology, cultural references, et cetera.
250* The 2000 unaired pilot ''M.3.K'' is ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' [-IN MODERN AMERICA! ONLY THERE'S A KING AND GUNS ARE ILLEGAL SO EVERYONE FIGHTS WITH SWORDS! WITH A GENDERFLIPPED D'ARTAGNAN!-]
251* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' is the original ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' comics with a HotterAndSexier tone and the setting changed from the 1950s to the TurnOfTheMillennium (ThePresentDay when the series was made).
252* InUniverse example in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Better Than Life":
253-->'''Lister''': They've remade ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''! Philistines! How can you remake ''Casablanca''? The one starring Myra Binglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive!\
254'''Holly''': I saw that. Knockout. "Of all the space-bars in all the worlds, you had to rematerialise in mine."
255* ''Series/{{Selfie}}'' is ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' set in a modern-day pharmaceutical company. Lowly flower girl Eliza Doolittle is now Eliza Dooley, a self-absorbed PluckyOfficeGirl obsessed with social media, while Prof. Henry Higgins becomes PR spin doctor Henry Higgs, who takes it upon himself to make Eliza into a better person.
256* Only a borderline example as the original is ''very'' vague about when it's set, but ''Series/TheDayOfTheTriffids1981'' moves the setting from "TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture from the perspective of The50s" to NextSundayAD in The80s. ''Series/TheDayOfTheTriffids2009'' might also count, although it also diverges so far from the source material that it's probably beyond the remit of this trope.
257* The ''Literature/FatherBrown'' stories were written and set between 1913 and the mid thirties. [[Series/FatherBrown The 2013 TV series]] is set in the fifties.
258* ''Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's...'' was ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'' and ''Comedy Playhouse'' [-IN THE 1990s!-]
259* When the character of Harry Bosch debuted in novel ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' in 1992, he was a Vietnam veteran. 23 years later, when the TV series ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' premiered, Harry Bosch was a Gulf War and Iraq War veteran.
260* Agatha Christie's ''Literature/TheClocks'' is originally set during the Cold War. The [[Series/{{Poirot}} ITV adaptation]] moved the year back to a pre-WWII era to keep the setting in line with the previous episodes, which were explicitly set in the 1930s. Likewise ''Third Girl''; the central concept of the 1966 novel was "Literature/HerculePoirot meets Swinging London", but the TV version is, again, set in the thirties.
261* The BBC adaptations of the later Literature/MissMarple novels. ''Literature/AtBertramsHotel'' (1965) is an interesting example; the hotel is specifically described in the book as determinedly old-fashioned, so moving the setting back a few decades doesn't require altering it much, it just becomes somewhat ''less'' old-fashioned in context.
262* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' series are decades-old comic books adapted for TheNew10s. Smartphones are ever-present ([[Series/Supergirl2015 Supergirl]] even somehow manages to carry one around in her suit), popular brand names are mentioned (such as [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry]] having to call for an Uber when his powers fail). Social media is also key, and Iris West now publishes online articles instead of physical newspapers. Even the nature of Barry's powers is changed from LightningCanDoAnything to a MagicalParticleAccelerator.
263* The Creator/{{Netflix}} ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' series are updates of comics that premiered decades ago. The shows that faced the most challenges with this were ''Series/Daredevil2015'' and ''Series/IronFist2017''. ''Daredevil'' had the problem of taking place in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, which at the time the comics were written was a WretchedHive full of crime and gang violence; however, today the neighborhood has long since gentrified. The show explained the crime as being due to the events of ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' destroying Hell's Kitchen and causing an increase in crime. ''Iron Fist'' faced this at a more meta level, as major criticism even before the show came out was the MightyWhitey plot (some critics even calling for a RaceLift to an actual Asian), with some critics noting that this premise was acceptable when the comic first came out in the '70s, but now seems dated.
264* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' updates the 1985 book to the 21st century, although it's unclear if it's an alternate present, NextSundayAD, or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Modern technology is mentioned, for example, Offred [[spoiler: (then known as June)]] meets her husband Luke when Moira randomly stops him on the street to ask what he thinks of Offred's Tinder profile.
265* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' is deliberately structured as ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' [-as an outlaw motorcycle gang!-]
266* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': Season 1 was set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with Wonder Woman posing as Yeoman Diana Prince to get leads on where she was needed. Season 2 and 3 were in [[The70s the 1970s]] and focused on Agent Diana Prince fighting {{Mad Scientist}}s, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and other contemporary foes.
267* The Creator/{{PBS}} special ''An Empire of Reason'' updates the setting of the time the Constitution was signed to the present day -- in a sense, at least. Despite the modern-dress updates to the characters that appear, and the format resembling segments from television broadcasts of the aptly-named fictional Continental Television Network (CTN for short), the setting remains the late 1780s, with present-day public affairs personalities such as celebrated anchorman Walter Cronkite, ABC World News This Morning anchorman Forrest Sawyer, NBC journalist John Chancellor, NBC weatherman [[TokenMinority Al Roker]], ''[=NewsHour=]'' host Robin [=MacNeil=], NBC chief congressional correspondent [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Andrea Mitchell]], syndicated talk show host Phil Donahue, and ''Firing Line'' host William Buckley interacting with period players such as Alexander Hamilton and Robert Livingston.
268* ITV's ''A Christmas Carol'', made in 2000, is ''A Christmas Carol'' [-WITH ROSS KEMP AS A [[LondonGangster LONDON GANGSTER]] SCROOGE!-]
269* James Garner described his character in ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' as a modern-day [[Series/{{Maverick}} Bret Maverick]], echoing his role in the latter.
270* Creator/TheBBC miniseries ''Nick Nickleby'' is ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'' [-WITH RALPH NICKLEBY AS A GANGSTER AND A CARE HOME INSTEAD OF A BOARDING SCHOOL!-]
271* ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' is a PeriodPiece set in The60s. In contrast, its [[Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina live-action adaptation]] is set in a RetroUniverse.
272* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': {{Inverted|Trope}} in "Sandkings". While the 1980 novelette of the same name by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin takes place on the planet Baldur hundreds of years in the future, the adaptation takes place in the United States in the present.
273* In ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'', Lyra's world is the same RetroUniverse as [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials the books]], but Will's world has been updated from 1995 to 2019, with the first thing [[spoiler:Lord Boreal]] does on crossing over being to check his smartphone.
274* ''Series/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'': The original novel and [[Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir the movie]] are set (initially) in TheEdwardianEra. The series is set in the (then) present day: the late 1960s.
275* ''Series/TheVampyrASoapOpera'' is ''Theatre/DerVampyr'' [-WITH YUPPIES! AND SEX!-]
276* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
277** In "A Message from Charity", Peter Wood's native time is 1985. In the short story by William M. Lee, it is 1965.
278** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E11TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]" takes place on Christmas Eve 1985 and features an unflattering depiction of yuppies in the store owner Mr. Dundee. The original episode takes place on Christmas Eve 1960.
279** "Devil's Alphabet" takes place from November 2, 1876 to November 2, 1898. The short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray is an account of the activities of the titular society from 1738 to 1766.
280** In "Lost and Found", Jenny Templeton is visited by two 22nd Century time travelers in her dorm room in 1986. In the short story by Phyllis Eisenstein, Jenny's native time is 1979.
281** {{Inverted|Trope}} in "The Cold Equations", which takes place in the late 2050s. The [[Literature/TheColdEquations short story]] by Tom Godwin takes place in 2178.
282* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' was set around the late 1980s/very early 1990s (being published in 1990) while ''Series/GoodOmens2019'' clearly takes place in 2019. The [[TechnologyMarchesOn ubiquity of computers]] in TheNew10s makes Newt Pulsifer’s WalkingTechbane tendencies an even bigger problem. The show also has to justify Crowley using a cassette tape answering machine since it's too plot-important to be replaced by something more modern. A more subtle change is that in the original book, the ''New Aquarian'' was a photocopied amateur zine, but in 2019, that would be a website, which you can't lend to someone, so it's a glossy ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' type publication.
283* ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'': While the [[Literature/TheBabysittersClub literature franchise]] takes place in whichever years the books were published ([[ComicBookTime the late 1980s to early 2000s]]), the Netflix adaptation is set in 2020 and so includes a lot of modern updates, such as the girls owning mobile phones and the frequent use of the internet.
284* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' takes the plot and lore of the ''Franchise/HannibalLecter'' franchise and updates it for the first half of the 2010s, which results in the show's take on ''Literature/RedDragon'' being far removed from both the original book and the film adaptations as a result of the newer technology. Among other things, Freddie Lounds now writes for a blogging site instead of a tabloid paper, smartphones are ever-present, and [[spoiler:Dolarhyde is now established to be one of the only people left who still knows how to develop film]], thanks to it being an even more specialized field in 2015 than in 1986.
285* ''Series/Cursed2020'', a retelling of the Arthurian legend, though it's more noticeable to history buffs. Most Arthurian adaptations (unless they go full-scale epic fantasy and take place in [[ConstructedWorld another world]]) seem to take place in the 5th or 6th centuries (the historical figure or figures that may have inspired the Arthurian legends is believed to have lived around this time and fought the Saxons). ''Cursed'' appears to take place a few centuries later, after the Viking raids began in Britain in the late 8th century but before the Norman conquest in 1066. As such, there are several Viking characters who play large roles in the story, such as Cumber and the Red Spear, who either have no counterpart in the legends or deviate greatly from the source material. Uther is also described here as being the king of ''England''; the Kingdom of England was founded in 927 AD by King Aethelstan, which would put the time period in the 10th century.
286* When Creator/MichaelConnelly debuted the Harry Bosch novels with ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' in 1992, Bosch was a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] veteran. For the Amazon adaptation of ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' that debuted in 2015, the series has been moved up 20 years, and Harry is now a [[UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar Gulf War]] veteran who re-enlisted after 9/11. In both versions, Bosch is a Tunnel Rat.
287** The novel ''Literature/AngelsFlight'' was published in 1999, and concerns the death of Howard Elias, a civil rights attorney who is about to bring a lawsuit to trial against several LAPD detectives who tortured a man wrongly suspected of being involved in the kidnapping and murder of a young girl. When the novel was adapted for the fourth season of ''Bosch'' in 2018, police departments in the United States were falling under public scrutiny for several high-profile police-on-black shootings. This tension was thus written into the season, with a subplot involving a Black Lives Matter protest going on outside the police station where the investigators for the Elias murder are working.
288* ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'' received two; the first was an ITV series in 1998 that updated the book's 1970s setting to the present day, even inserting an original character who has the most up-to-date technology and is constantly at odds with the traditional Miss Hardbroom. The second was a Creator/{{CBBC}}/Netflix series, now incorporating things like [=iPads=] and other 2010s media.
289* ''Series/{{Sparkhouse}}'' is ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' in mid-21th century Yorkshire.
290* The modern day stories in the Netflix adaptation of ''Series/TheSandman2022'' take place in the 2020s as opposed to the late 1980s-early 1990s, the time period [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the comic book]] was first published in.
291* ''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'': The series starts out in 2016, thirty years on from the original film. Gentrification in Fort Greene is a recurring theme, while modern events like the election of Donald Trump or Black Lives Matter are featured too. Additionally, Nola Darling is now pansexual, and a woman is among one of her many lovers.
292* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The past scenes in the book begin in 1791, but in the series, they start in 1910. The show also invents a second interview between Daniel Molloy and Louis de Pointe du Lac, so the FramingDevice is set in 2022 (the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is ongoing InUniverse) instead of 1973.
293* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'': In the original game, the Cordyceps outbreak took place in 2013 and was originated in South America with the main events occurring twenty years later in 2033. In the show, the first outbreak is moved back ten years to 2003 in Jakarta, Indonesia, such that the main events will occur in 2023 instead.
294* ''Series/AllOfUsAreDead'': The webtoon happens in 2011, while the show happens in 2021. Therefore, characters make mentions of events like the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and ''Train to Busan''.
295* ''Series/ThePower2023'': The [[Literature/ThePower original book]] came out in 2016. In the series, the COVID pandemic was mentioned as having occurred, setting it past 2019 and probably into the present day now.
296* Creator/TheABC miniseries ''The Beautiful Lie'': ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' [-IN SUBURBAN AUSTRALIA CIRCA 2015-], starring Creator/SarahSnook, Rodger Corser, Creator/BenedictSamuel and Creator/SophieLowe.
297* ''Series/RobynHood'' is a reimagining of the medieval folk tale of Myth/RobinHood set in the modern-day Canadian town of New Nottingham and concerning a gang of anti-authoritarian black women and men.
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301* Basshunter's "Now You're Gone" is his previous "Boten Anna" [-IN ENGLISH!-] Ditto this for "All I Ever Wanted"/"Vi Sitter I Ventrilo Och Spelar Dota".
302* Peter Schickele claims to have updated for contemporary audiences the references in Music/PDQBach's "Classical Rap," whose alleged original was about 18th-century Viennese yuppies.
303* ''[[Music/{{Hero}} !HERO: The Rock Opera]]'' sets the story of Jesus' first coming in an alternate early 21st century with a OneWorldOrder known as I.C.O.N. subbing for the Roman Empire and New York City as the setting's metaphorical Jerusalem.
304* Music/FallOutBoy's cover of Music/BillyJoel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" covers events from 1989 (when the original song was released) to 2023 (when the cover was released).
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308* The Israeli 1992 song "At Aunt's and Uncle's" by Danny Sanderson was CoveredUp by Noa Kirel in 2017. The clip of the old version had a person calling some friends to have a WildTeenParty using a rotary phone. The new version used a smartphone. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw7KCMjvs6I And that's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EtqfxPt7p4 just the start]] (although there are serious MythologyGags toward the end) Of course, [[ValuesResonance the song itself required no adjustment]].
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312* In early 2016, Creator/SternPinball announced plans to release ''Ultimate Spider-Man,'' a visually-updated PhysicalPinballTable. [[Pinball/SpiderManStern The original 2007 game]] was based on Creator/SamRaimi's Film/SpiderManTrilogy, but ''Ultimate'' updates the art, backglass, dot-matrix animation, and playfield toys with a more ComicBook-style design.
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315[[folder:Radio]]
316* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 series of Afternoon Plays ''New Metamorphoses'' was Ovid's ''Literature/{{Metamorphoses}}'' [-IN MODERN BRITAIN!-]
317* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 ''Woman's Hour'' drama ''The Way We Live Right Now'', was Creator/AnthonyTrollope's ''The Way We Live Now'' [-[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin RIGHT NOW!]]-]
318* ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'' was ''Radio/TheLoneRanger'' [-IN MODERN TIMES!-]
319* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play ''The Patience of Mr Job'' was the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] story of Job [-IN MODERN AFRICA! WITH "FAITH" IN FREE-MARKET ECONOMICS INSTEAD OF GOD!-]
320* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 comedy series ''Brian Gulliver's Travels'' is ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' [-WITH THE SATIRE UPDATED TO BE ABOUT MODERN BRITAIN!-]
321* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 series of Afternoon Plays (they like this trope) ''Arabian Afternoons'' is '' Literature/ArabianNights'' [-IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST!-]
322* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 serial ''The Mumbai Chuzzlewits'' is ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' by Creator/CharlesDickens [-IN MODERN INDIA!-]
323* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 ''Stanley Baxter's Playhouse'' episode "Two Desperate Men" is "The Ransom of Red Chief" by Creator/OHenry (1907) [-IN 1930s PERTHSHIRE!-]
324* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 comedy special ''The Twelfth Night Show'' was supposedly made by stitching together clips of various performances of ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' from the archives, including a FilmNoir and a cheesy '80s musical called ''The Chick Wears Pants''.
325* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 series of Afternoon Plays ''Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood'' is ''Les Rogugon-Macquart'' by Emile Zola [-IN MODERN BRITAIN!-] (The novel series was adapted more directly in the same slot as ''Emile Zola's Blood, Sex and Money''. Both versions star Glenda Jackson.)
326* Radio 4 did a series of Creator/WilliamShakespeare plays like this, keeping the dialogue and changing the setting (for example, ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' set in London during the 2008 financial crisis). Being radio, this largely consisted of sound effects like mobile ringtones. They also kept the dialogue the same when it didn't really make sense (the aforementioned ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' kept all the Italian place names and talks about ducats rather than pounds), making it all seem rather pointless.
327* The 2021 Radio 4 adaptation of ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' is set in present day Mumbai, with all the animal characters turned into humans with AnimalMotifs. Mo's adopted parents are members of a crime gang called the Wolves, Tiger Khan is a powerful politician, and so on.
328* ''Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse'': The ''Lovecraft Investigations'' subseries are setting updates of Franchise/CthulhuMythos stories, from the perspective of a true crime podcast called ''The Mystery Machine''.
329* ''Series/DeadRingers:''
330** The BBC's habit of doing this is spoofed with one {{continuity announce|ment}}r asking the audience if they've ever wondered what the Nativity would look like on a '70s council estate. "[[TakeThat Me neither.]]"
331** One sketch has a new version of ''Murder on the Orient Express'' which thanks to crippling rail strikes has become ''Murder on the Replacement Bus Service''.
332* The ''Charles Paris Mysteries'' novels by Creator/SimonBrett began in 1975. The AudioAdaptation began in 2006, not in the same order, and with the setting updated to the time of recording. There's a bit of a a MythologyGag on this in the 2023 adaptation of the second novel, set at the Edinburgh Fringe, where Paris claims that the last time he did the Fringe was in the seventies, with much discussion of how things have changed since then.
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336* TabletopGame/D20Modern takes the basic rule system of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3rd edition and applies it to a modern setting. The base setting is strictly mundane things, but ''Shadow Chasers'' adds D&D monsters to the modern setting, while ''Urban Arcana'' is straight-up UrbanFantasy, allowing characters to learn spells and use magic items much like D&D.
337* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' is ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' [-WITH SPECIAL FORCES!-] [[spoiler:It doesn't make much difference.]]
338** ''Delta Green'' is receiving an overhauled edition, with specialized rules. Additionally, the game will update the setting from where it began in the [=1990s=] to modern times; as the players are federal agents and federal law enforcement has changed dramatically since then.
339* InUniverse examples in a ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'':
340** In ''Teralogos News'' a review of a new production of ''Theatre/TheTempest'' says "Over the last few years, Shakespeare's final complete play has suffered the most tragic fate which can overtake a classic text; it has become relevant. I swear, if I see one more [=InVid=] staging which transmutes Prospero's island into an L-5 station, with Ariel as an infomorph and Caliban as an experimental bioroid, I'll claw out my implant." Doesn't count as RecycledInSpace, because it's the present day from the perspective of the reviewer.
341** ''Toxic Memes'' mentions a 2042 remake of ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', in which Smith expresses the opinion that [[DemocracyIsFlawed democracy is all a big con]], and a 2097 remake of the German silent film ''Alraune'' under the title ''Mandrake'', with the ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow updated from artificial insemination to computer generated genomes.
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345* ConversationalTroping in Music/MitchBenn's ''That Was the Future'' show, where he says that there will never be a setting update of ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' with a TheNew10s Marty going back to The80s.
346-->Because what would be the equivalent of Johnny B. Goode and "Your kids are gonna love it"? "''[[Music/{{Oasis}} Today / Is gonna be the day / That they're gonna throw it back to you...]]''" "I don't know about my kids, I think my ''dad'' might like it."
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349[[folder:Theater]]
350* In general, many Creator/GilbertAndSullivan productions have extra/altered lines inserted into their songs to make them more relevant to a contemporary audience. One of the most popular examples is adding an extra verse to the MajorGeneralSong that pokes fun at whatever is currently newsworthy. "I've Got a Little List" from ''Theatre/TheMikado'' is practically ''designed'' for this, putting whoever the current AcceptableTargets are on the list.
351* ''Pan'' was ''Literature/PeterPan'' in the modern day, in nightclubs. And it was performed in an abandoned power station.
352* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' was a musical that retold the story of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' in 20th century Manhattan.
353* There are a bunch of examples of Shakespeare plays portrayed in an unconventional setting, but with the same dialogue.
354** ''Hobson's Choice'' (a play, later filmed) is ''Theatre/KingLear'' in a 19th century industrial town in the north of England.
355** Creator/OrsonWelles first did ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' with an all-black cast in Haiti.
356** Avid to play the main role but not willing to [[{{Blackface}} blacken up]], Creator/PatrickStewart starred in ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' in an African state and with the races reversed.
357** In 2012, Seattle's Intiman Theatre did a production of ''R & J'' in a present-day setting, but retaining some Elizabethan elements such as the sword fights.
358** The 2011 ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjmqSJ0ElNs production]] in the '80s, at a tastless vacation resort.
359** ''These Paper Bullets!'' is ''Much Ado About Nothing'' in '60s London, with Benedick as the lead singer of a popular Music/TheBeatles spoof band, and Don John as [[ThePeteBest their embittered former drummer]].
360* Shakespeare pulled one himself; ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amleth Amleth]], but the protagonist is a prince, rather than a governor's son.
361* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' is the Opera ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' during the UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (and with a more sympathetic male lead).
362* ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' is the Opera ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' but in the late '80s, with AIDS and LGTBQ themes. In turn, the off-Broadway revival updates the setting to the "end of the millennium" (early 2000s).
363* Examples from Creator/BertoltBrecht's dramatic oeuvre:
364** ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' is ''Theatre/TheBeggarsOpera'' in Victorian or Edwardian times (and DarkerAndEdgier).
365** ''Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe'' takes Schiller's ''Jungfrau von Orleans'' and transports her to the 20th century Chicago of Upton Sinclair's ''Literature/TheJungle''.
366** ''Schwejk im Zweiten Weltkrieg'' (The Good Soldier Shvejk in World War 2) transports Jaroslav Hasek's ''Good Soldier Svejk'' from UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne to UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo.
367** ''Theatre/TheCaucasianChalkCircle'' takes an Chinese play based on a story of Judge Bao (which had already been translated into European languages, adapted into various plays and operas, and which Brecht himself had also transposed to his native Augsburg at the time of the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar in ''The Augsburg Chalk Circle'') and transforms it into a play within a play performed just after the end of World War 2 in Georgia (the one in the Caucasus, obviously).
368* ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' borrows its plot (without acknowledgment) from the obscure 19th-century German short story "Germelshausen", setting it in the Scottish Highlands.
369* Oscar Hammerstein II adapted ''Film/CarmenJones'' from the opera ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', keeping the Bizet score but resetting the action in the American South during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with an all-Black cast.
370* When Music/StephenSondheim and George Furth musicalized the play ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'', they reset the action between 1980 (about when the musical was produced) and 1955. (Kaufman and Hart's original play went from 1934, when it was written, to 1916, and was also BackToFront.)
371* ''Music/{{Hero}}'', possibly the ballsiest adaptation on this list, is ''the story of Jesus'' [-TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture!-]
372* ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'' is the [[Literature/TheBible Crucifixion of Christ]] in whatever modern setting the director feel like (it tends to involve guns and drugs).
373* ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'' is ''Film/{{Liliom}}'' DOWNEAST!
374* Inverted with the ''Film/SisterAct'' musical, which was set in 1978, with Alan Menkin's disco-style songs.
375* Thanks to censorship at the time, ''Rigoletto'' is Victor Hugo's ''Le Roi s'amuse'' in Italy, and ''Un ball in maschera'' is the story of the assassination of king Gustav III of Sweden in colonial Massachusetts.
376* There was a 1994 Scottish tour of ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'' in 1990s Glasgow.
377* Similarly Neil Simon's own ''Felix & Oscar: A New Look At The Odd Couple'' is ''The Odd Couple'' in the 21st century.
378* The 2013 stage musical version of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' updates the story much the way the 2005 film adaptation did with regards to Mike Teavee's technology fixation, and updates Violet's vice of {{Pride}} to have her parlaying her non-talent of gum chewing into a lucrative entertainment career (ala socialites and certain reality show stars). That said, while it's set in ThePresentDay, PurelyAestheticEra applies, with the songs drawing upon many different styles (and eras) of music -- British music hall, jazz, disco, rap, techno, etc.
379* ''Uncle Varick'' by Scottish playwright John Byrne (the one who did ''Series/TuttiFrutti'', not ''Comicbook/XMen'') is ''Theatre/UncleVanya'' in 1960s Scotland.
380* ''One Man, Two Guvnors'' by Richard Bean is the CommediaDellArte play ''Servant of Two Masters'' in 1960s Brighton. With gangsters.
381* Sondheim's ''Theatre/TheFrogs'' is Aristophanes's ''The Frogs'' updated to the 20th or 21st century, with the shades of George Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare instead of Euripides and Aeschylus.
382* ''Theatre/TheWiz'' is ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' in the 1970s. Except for ''The Wiz Live'', which seemed to be based in the early 20th century.
383* The musical version of ''Film/SchoolOfRock'' takes place in the early 2010s instead of being in the early 2000s like the film.
384* One English-language translation of ''Theatre/DieFledermaus'', first produced by Opera Australia in 1997, moves the action from 1870s Vienna to Manhattan in TheRoaring20s.
385* ''Theatre/TheGreenPastures'' is a series of Bible vignettes (Adam and Eve, CainAndAbel, etc) staged in modern-day (that is, the 1920s) Louisiana with an all-black cast.
386* ''Stupid F%&$ing Bird'' is ''Theatre/TheSeagull'' in the 21st century, with NoFourthWall and [[ClusterFBomb lots of swearing]].
387* The 2016 revival of ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' with Creator/GillianAnderson keeps New Orleans as the setting but updates it to the post-Katrina present.
388* Shakespeare in the Park does an annual summer show of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' with Jules [[AC: as the current President of the United States of America!]]
389* The 2017 opera ''Fausto'' is ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' with VirtualReality and artificial intelligence.
390* TheMusical of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' updates the setting from [[UsefulNotes/The90s the pre-Internet '90s]] to UsefulNotes/TheNew10s, with contemporary technologies such as Wi-Fi, Platform/PlayStation, Facebook, iPads, and Google Assistant, along with one of the kids mentioning WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} at one point.
391 * ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats'' is a 1931 book. The 1981 ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' musical updates it to The80s.
392* Eric Idle starred in a made-for-TV version of ''Theatre/TheMikado'', updated to a 1930s English seaside resort.
393* ''Harlem Duet'', written by Canadian playwright Djanet Sears, is a modern re-telling of the love story from ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'', and takes place in three settings: modern (late 1990s/early 2000s) Harlem, a cotton plantation in 1860, and Harlem in 1928.
394* Some productions of ''Theatre/LOrfeo'' are set in contemporary times or the recent past, often with anachronistic clothing, sets, and instruments to enhance the timeless feel.
395* Some ''Theatre/OrfeoEdEuridice'' productions are set in modern or semi-modern times, often replacing Orpheus's lyre with a guitar and mixing clothing from different eras.
396* ''Theatre/{{Eurydice}}'' is implied to be set sometime in the 1950s rather than Ancient Greece.
397* Many adaptations of ''Theatre/OrpheusInTheUnderworld'' place it in the modern day or close to it, with humorous additions like Mercury arriving on rollerskates and Juno displaying photos of Jupiter's many lovers.
398* ''The Big Life: The Ska Musical'' is based on ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'', but set in 1950s Britain, with Preince Ferdinand and his companions as four friends who arrived from Jamaica on the Windrush: Ferdy, Bernie, Lennie and Dennis.
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401[[folder:Video Games]]
402* ''VideoGame/AntigoneWillTakeTheStairsToday'' is ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'' [-IN A MODERN-DAY APARTMENT BLOCK!-]
403* ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock|1}}'' is ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' [-UNDERWATER, IN THE 1950S-]!
404* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' : ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' + ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' [-IN A REAL, SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD !!!-]
405* ''Cossacks'' series is ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' [-IN 17th/18th CENTURY EUROPE!-]
406* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' is ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' [-{{IN A WORLD}} [[FantasyCounterpartCulture THAT RESEMBLES ANCIENT CHINESE MYTH!]]-]
407* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has a lot of similarities with Bethesda's previous game ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', both of which were made with the same game engine. Although the former is [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] sci-fi and the latter is MedievalEuropeanFantasy, the games are structured similarly. The main quest of both games involves the player starting in an area they need to escape from and find a certain character, with this character [[spoiler:making a HeroicSacrifice to defeat a major villain late in the story]]. Most indoor areas in both games function as either towns to restock supplies and sleep or as "dungeons" where the player fights enemies of a specific faction and finds loot. Each game also has a variety of skills that determine how good the player character is at nearly everything there is to do in the game, from talking to [=NPCs=] to using specific types of weapons.
408* ''VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings'' is ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' [-SET IN [[The80s THE '80S]], WITH PSYCHIC POWERS!-]
409* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]]'' is essentially ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' [-[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin IN THE PRESENT DAY!]]-]
410* ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'' is ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' [-IN ANCIENT CHINA-], [-WITH [[ActionGirl A GIRL]]!-]
411* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' is ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' [-IN THE 20TH CENTURY!-]
412* ''Armed Police Batrider'' is ''Battle Garegga'' [-IN A MORE MODERN SETTING AND WITH LESS [[RealIsBrown BROWN]]!-]
413* The Konami arcade game ''M.I.A.'' (unrelated to the Creator/ChuckNorris movie of the same name) can be described as ''Rush 'n Attack''/''Green Beret'' [-IN VIETNAM-].
414* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' features the same premise and events as the first two ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games for the [=MSX2=], but moves the setting to early 21st century Alaska.
415* ''Strikers 1999'' (aka ''Strikers 1945 III'') is ''VideoGame/Strikers1945'' [-IN [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 1999]]!-]
416* Played with: ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'' is ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' [-IN 16TH CENTURY GERMANY (AKA THE HOLY [ROMAN] EMPIRE)! THE HERO, EIGHT BOSSES, AND [[spoiler:[[ManBehindTheMan TRUE VILLAIN]]]] ARE ALL FEMALE! AND MAGIC IS HEAVILY FAVORED OVER TECHNOLOGY!-]
417* The SNK arcade game ''P.O.W. Prisoners of War'' is ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' [-IN A PRISONERS' CAMP!-]
418* The obscure arcade game from Creator/{{Konami}} ''Combat School'' is ''VideoGame/TrackAndField'' [-IN A MILITARY BOOT CAMP!-]
419* The Japanese PC-FX game ''Battle Heat'' is ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' [-IN A EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL SETTING!-]
420* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' takes place in a world parallel to our own world, with the setting usually being TwentyMinutesInTheFuture to when the games are released. The remakes typically modernize the clothing and technology, though they keep the games place in the overall timeline stationary. For example, the remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'' replace your player character's Platform/NintendoGamecube with a Platform/WiiU. However, it's still canonically concurrent with the remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' that were released just after the original ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire''. [[spoiler:There are heavy implications that ''[=ORAS=]'' is in an AlternateUniverse from the older ''[=FRLG=]'' continuity though.]]
421* ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout1}} Fallout]]'' is ''VideoGame/{{Wasteland}}'' [-IN A PSEUDO-FIFTIES POST APOCALYPSE!-]
422* The ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' indulge in this a bit, which is especially noticeable since the '90s animated series, a touchstone for most modern Bat-fans, famously made Gotham an anachronistic hodgepodge of contemporary and early 20th century styles to evoke the early comics.
423** ''Arkham'': Most noticeable in ''Origins'', where Riddler employs cybercrime, Anarky resembles modern street protestors, and on and on.
424** ''Telltale'': Instead of their more classic personae as gangsters, Two-Face and Penguin are reimagined as a borderline-fascist politician and a terrorist who spouts class warfare rhetoric, respectively.
425* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' is ''[[VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense X-COM: UFO Defense]]'' set fifteen years later.
426* ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'' is another adaption (this time [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual]]) of ''VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense'' set in the late early '80s. This change have some gameplay implications: the starting aircrafts are much more short ranged and your soldiers starts with conventional Cold War firearms. However, this is compensanted by the widened roster of enemies. Early ufos are small fighters and light scouts, while the aliens are mostly non-combatants armed only with sidearms.
427* The original Japanese PC versions of ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', which were released in 1988, had the Catastrophe (an event in which the 80% of the Eurasian population was destroyed) occur on June 6, 1991, and the present date of the game's story as December 2042. Later Japanese console ports tend to keep these dates as ZeerustCanon, but the English-localized Sega CD port released in 1994, changes all the dates in the story by five years, moving the Catastrophe to 1996 and the present year to 2047.
428* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDontDry'', moves the setting of the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' games up to the 21st century, with Larry having to deal with modern culture, modern technology, and his utter refusal to accept that no one wears leisure suits anymore.
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432* The ''[[http://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com/ Tattúínárdœla]]'' saga, which is ''Franchise/StarWars'' [-as an [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Old Norse Saga]]!-]
433* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'', which reimagines Elizabeth Bennet as a modern day vlogger. So it's ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' [-IN CALIFORNIA IN THE NEW TENS!-]
434* ''WebVideo/WelcomeToSanditon'' A spin-off of ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'', set between LBD and ''Emma Approved''. Based on [[Creator/JaneAusten Jane Austen's]] final, unfinished novel Sanditon [-IN CALIFORNIA IN THE NEW TENS!-]
435* ''WebVideo/EmmaApproved'' is ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' [-IN CALIFORNIA IN THE NEW TENS!-] with Emma as a professional matchmaker and lifestyle guru.
436* ''WebVideo/FrankensteinMD'' is ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' [-IN THE NEW TENS WITH A [[GenderFlip FEMALE DR. FRANKENSTEIN]]!-].
437* ''WebVideo/TheMarchFamilyLetters'' is ''Literature/LittleWomen''
438* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'' is directly inspired by ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'', this time based on ''Literature/JaneEyre'' where Jane is a young Canadian woman and she vlogs.
439* ''[[Literature/AStudyInMoonlight Tamanous of the Brackenwoods]]'' is ''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' in [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest the Hoh Rainforest]] during the New Tens. [[MundaneFantastic With werewolves.]]
440* ''WebVideo/NothingMuchToDo'', also inspired by ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'', is ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' [-IN A NEW ZEALAND HIGH SCHOOL!-]
441* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'' [-IN A MODERN UNIVERSITY!-]
442* ''WebVideo/AllForOne'' is ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' [-IN A MODERN UNIVERSITY!-], by the same channel as ''[[WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries Carmilla]]''.
443* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRZKTFpT6ToTeNtPR2v0IZA Northbound Web Series]] is ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'' set in modern-day New York.
444* Both ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU_VLBr2HCEkmVJbnBsMSXg Green Gables Fables]]'' and ''WebVideo/ProjectGreenGables'' are ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' [-IN THE NEW TENS!-]
445* Blog/BrokePatrickBateman is an update of ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' moved up from 1989 to the mid-2010s. Patrick Bateman is still a shallow, trend-obsessed SerialKiller in his mid-twenties, but instead of an IdleRich yuppie working on Wall Street, he's a bitter ImpoverishedPatrician millennial.
446* In-universe example in ''Literature/LookToTheWest'', in which ''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/look-to-the-west-volume-viii-the-bear-and-the-basilisk.495774/page-12#post-21140952 Der Rillischkaiser Und Die Welt Von Morgen]]'' is a 1987 musical based on the political situation of Germany in the Black Twenties, but given a contemporary setting, with the Bundeskaiser as the leader of an autopede (motorbike) gang.
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450* ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' is set some time after the original series, so Josh's notebook now doubles as a smartphone (with the old landline phone completely absent).
451* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' was set in the present day, while WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie was also set in the present day...but made 13 years later. About a year is supposed to have passed InUniverse, but for some reason people now have modern cell phones and Big Bob's Beepers is belatedly going out of business.
452* The ''WesternAnimation/HBOStorybookMusicals'' adaptation of ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl'' takes place in NYC on New Years 1999. The titular heroine ([[NamedByTheAdaptation named Angela]]) [[SparedByTheAdaptation doesn't die]] in that version.
453* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/SenorellaAndTheGlassHuarache" is a retelling of Literature/{{Cinderella}} set in a sterotypical version of turn-of-the-century Mexico.
454* ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' took place in the early-to-mid 1990s. The SoftReboot ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBusRidesAgain'' takes place in the late 2010s.
455* ''WesternAnimation/NightHood'' is ''Literature/ArseneLupin'' [-IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD-].
456* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Video Revue" updates the 1946 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "[[WesternAnimation/BookRevue Book Revue]]", this time with tapes instead of books.
457* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' takes place in the 2010s instead of the [[ComicBookTime early 2000s]] of the original ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. For example, the girl's phone (which was dated even in the original series because it was a ''toy'' phone) was replaced with a smartphone. This means that the girls can be called even when away from home.
458* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' is ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' [-IN THE 2010s-]. It's in a RetroUniverse so it doesn't look too different from the original.
459** And before that, ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' updated the setting to the early 2000s, but unlike Mystery Incorporated, it updated the Mystery gangs' choices in fashion[[note]] Meaning no more ascots for Freddy, for starters.[[/note]] and the overall aesthetic of the show itself, instead of making it a RetroUniverse.
460** In fact, pretty much every iteration of the franchise updates the setting of the original to whatever time a new production is made. Going back further, [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland Zombie Island]] is set in the late '90s, and most of the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo Scooby and Scrappy]] related stuff is set in the '80s.
461* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' takes place in an indefinite time period during the mid-to-late 1900s. Its ContinuityReboot ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriendsAllEnginesGo'' takes place in the modern day 2020s, given the addition of smartphones and tablets.]
462* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is a setting update of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', which in turn, is ''kind of'' a setting update of the ''Comicbook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'', which -- at least as far as Creator/DonRosa is concerned -- is always set in the 1940s.
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466* UrbanLegends which last long enough will often see their details updated to fit the times. For example, the legend about the woman with spiders in her bouffant hairstyle began during the 1950s, when the BeehiveHairdo was popular. Thus, early versions portray the victim as a young fashionable woman, perhaps a HighSchool student. As the years went by, later retellings changed her into an older woman with an outdated hairstyle. Once that stopped sounding credible, new variations were introduced, including one where the victim is a man with dreadlocks.
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