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* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' is ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' [-IN SPACE-]! Ironically, it had a lot of {{Recycled Joke}}s. He's the Big Cheese, the Man In Charge...
** {{Lampshaded}} when Elaine said "Ted, I have the feeling we've been through this exact thing before."
* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' [-IN SPACE!-] (helps Creator/JamesCameron wrote both) Or as the producers summed up, the VietnamWar [-IN SPACE-]!
* The SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Antibody'' is ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' as a [-PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie-]!
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' is ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' [-IN 1969 VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA!-]
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' is ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' [-IN SPACE!-]
* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' is ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' [-IN SPACE-] (which in turn is ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [-IN [[TheWildWest THE WILD WEST]]!-])
* In one of his Q&A specials, Creator/KevinSmith mentioned being offered a script for ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}} [[AlohaHawaii goes Hawaiian]]'' in the '90s. To which his response was, "Really? Didn't we say all we had to say with the first one?"
* The Spierig Brothers are remaking ''Film/CaptainBlood''. [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/{{Centurion}}'' is ''Film/CrossOfIron'' [-WITH ROMAN LEGIONNARIES-]!
* ''Film/{{Critters}}'' eventually went (back) to space too. In fact, almost any horror movie franchise will eventually head to the stars if it lasts long enough. Except for ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', which started out in space and ended up back in a normal Earth town for ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem''.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is the 1934 play ''Thunderstorm'' [-IN THE CHINESE IMPERIAL COURT!-]
* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically "[[WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks The Story of Catcher Freeman]]" [-AS A [[LiveActionAdaptation LIVE-ACTION MOVIE]]!-]
* ''Dracula 3000'' is ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' is much more like a remake of ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' [-IN LOS ANGELES-] than a sequel.
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' is ''Film/PointBreak1991'' [-WITH STREET RACING-]!
* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' and ''Film/LastManStanding'' are ''two different'' versions of ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' [-IN THE OLD WEST-]!
** And Yojimbo itself is more-or-less Creator/DashiellHammett's novel ''Literature/RedHarvest'' [-IN FEUDAL JAPAN-]!
** ''[[Film/{{TheRavenTrilogy}} When The Raven Flies]]'' by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (''Hrafninn flýgur'', 1984) is ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' [-WITH VIKINGS-]!
* ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' is ''Theatre/TheTempest'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Fortress 2: Re-entry'' is ''Film/{{Fortress 1992}}'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/{{Fury 2014}}'' is ''Film/DasBoot'' with ALLIED SOLDIERS in a TANK!
* ''Film/{{Gunmen}}'' is ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' [-IN NINETIES SOUTH AMERICA!-]
* ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'' was ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' in [-IN VICTORIAN FRANCE!-] and later [-IN SPACE!-]
* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' with [[SpaceJews JEWS]] [-IN SPACE!-]
* ''Film/HomeAlone 2: Lost in New York'' was basically ''exactly'' the same movie as ''Film/HomeAlone'', just set [-IN NEW YORK-]! Even the scary neighbor got a direct counterpart.
** This was even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Harry, who mentioned that Kevin threw two paint cans the last time they tried to climb up a flight of stairs, and saw it coming. Unfortunately for them, the second time around, a sewer pipe followed immediately afterward.
* ''Film/{{The Hunger Games}}'' is ''Film/BattleRoyale'' [-WITH TEEN ROMANCE! AND A [[LighterAndSofter PG-13 RATING]]!-]
* ''Film/{{Ikiru}}'' is [[Creator/LeoTolstoy Leo Tolstoy's]] ''The Death of Ivan Illych'' in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII post-war]] Japan.
* ''Film/JasonX'': ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' [-IN SPACE!-] Complete with Jason Voorhees getting turned into a {{cyborg}}.
* ''Film/KamenRiderJ'' is ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' [-AS A KAMEN RIDER SHOW!-]
* ''Knightriders'': According to an interview in ''American Film'', Creator/GeorgeRomero was having trouble selling a picture about KingArthur, until he exclaimed "I bet if I put the knights [-ON MOTORCYCLES!-] and added a rock soundtrack, you'd be interested."
* ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'': Film/TheVirginSpring (13th century Swedish ballad, dramatised by Creator/IngmarBergman in 1961) [-IN PRESENT DAY (1972) AMERICA!-]
* ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' not only went the [-IN SPACE!-] route with its fourth installment (which was actually titled ''Film/Leprechaun4InSpace''), it later went [-IN THE GHETTO!-] with the next film, ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood''. This idea was apparently popular enough that they went back to that well for ''Film/LeprechaunBack2ThaHood'' a few years later.
* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' is ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' [-IN SPACE!-], to the point that Creator/JohnCarpenter successfully sued the film-makers for plagiarism in the French courts.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Creator/PeterJackson's commentary revealed that he based his version of the Battle of Helm's Deep on the 1960s movie ''Film/{{Zulu}}'', depicting [[UsefulNotes/AngloZuluWar the Battle of Rorke's Drift]] where 139 British soldiers held off over 4,000 Zulu warriors during an twelve-hour siege.
* ''{{Film/Machete}}'' originally ended with the narrator declaring "''MACHETE WILL RETURN... IN...'' '''''MACHETE KILLS!''''' ''AND...'' '''''MACHETE KILLS AGAIN!'''''" During the runup to ''Film/MacheteKills'', Creator/RobertRodriguez claimed that the third movie had been retitled: "MACHETE KILLS AGAIN IN SPACE". A lot of people thought he was kidding. [[spoiler:These people were wrong. The second movie opens with a ludicrous and clearly fake trailer for "Machete Kills Again in Space", and then [[SequelHook ended with Machete actually pursuing the villain into space.]]]]
* ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' is Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [-IN THE AMERICAN OLD WEST-].
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' is ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' [-IN SPACE-]! In turn, ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' was basically ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' [-AT SEA-]!
* ''Film/{{Outland}}'' is ''Film/HighNoon'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/ThePatriot'' is ''{{Film/Braveheart}}'' [-IN {{UsefulNotes/THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION}}!-]
* ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' is ''Film/MenInBlack'' [-In THE AFTERLIFE-]
* The 1964 film ''Film/RobinsonCrusoeOnMars'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** There was also ''Film/LtRobinCrusoeUSN'' which is ''RobinsonCrusoe'' [-AS A FIGHTER PILOT-]!
* ''Film/RogueOne'' is a {{War Movie|s}} [-IN SPACE!-] More specifically, a World War II movie [-[[Franchise/StarWars A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY!]]-]
* ''Film/RunAllNight'' is ''Film/RoadToPerdition'' [-IN MODERN DAY NEW YORK CITY-]!
* ''Film/{{Solarbabies}}'' is ''Film/MadMax'' [-[[RollerbladeGood ON ROLLER SKATES]]-]!
* [[TheNineties '90s]] Fox miniseries ''White Dwarf'' is an almost scene-by-scene remake of Kurosawa's ''Film/RedBeard'', with an added conspiracy subplot, [-IN SPACE-].
* ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' ends with a series of increasingly silly sequel ideas (''23 Jump Street: Medical School'', ''25 Jump Street: A Semester At Sea'') before finally capping off with ''2121 Jump Street: In Space''. Fittingly, the actual proposed ''23 Jump Street'' was initially planned as a {{crossover}} with ''Film/MenInBlack'', titled ''MIB 23'', though that idea appears to have [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/10/jonah-hill-23-jump-street-men-black-crossover fallen into]] DevelopmentHell.
* ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' is Creator/DashiellHammett's ''Literature/RedHarvest'' [-[[JidaiGeki IN FEUDAL JAPAN!]]-]
* ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' is ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' [-IN SPACE-]! Literally; in the story (by the same author) on which it is based, Zathura is the value-added bonus game on the reverse side of the Jumanji board (in the same way many checkerboards have a backgammon board on the back).
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* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' is ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' [-IN SPACE-]! Ironically, it had a lot of {{Recycled Joke}}s. He's the Big Cheese, the Man In Charge...
** {{Lampshaded}} when Elaine said "Ted, I have the feeling we've been through this exact thing before."
* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' [-IN SPACE!-] (helps Creator/JamesCameron wrote both) Or as the producers summed up, the VietnamWar [-IN SPACE-]!
* The SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Antibody'' is ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' as a [-PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie-]!
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' is ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' [-IN 1969 VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA!-]
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' is ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' [-IN SPACE!-]
* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' is ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' [-IN SPACE-] (which in turn is ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [-IN [[TheWildWest THE WILD WEST]]!-])
* In one of his Q&A specials, Creator/KevinSmith mentioned being offered a script for ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}} [[AlohaHawaii goes Hawaiian]]'' in the '90s. To which his response was, "Really? Didn't we say all we had to say with the first one?"
* The Spierig Brothers are remaking ''Film/CaptainBlood''. [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/{{Centurion}}'' is ''Film/CrossOfIron'' [-WITH ROMAN LEGIONNARIES-]!
* ''Film/{{Critters}}'' eventually went (back) to space too. In fact, almost any horror movie franchise will eventually head to the stars if it lasts long enough. Except for ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', which started out in space and ended up back in a normal Earth town for ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem''.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is the 1934 play ''Thunderstorm'' [-IN THE CHINESE IMPERIAL COURT!-]
* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically "[[WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks The Story of Catcher Freeman]]" [-AS A [[LiveActionAdaptation LIVE-ACTION MOVIE]]!-]
* ''Dracula 3000'' is ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' is much more like a remake of ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' [-IN LOS ANGELES-] than a sequel.
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' is ''Film/PointBreak1991'' [-WITH STREET RACING-]!
* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' and ''Film/LastManStanding'' are ''two different'' versions of ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' [-IN THE OLD WEST-]!
** And Yojimbo itself is more-or-less Creator/DashiellHammett's novel ''Literature/RedHarvest'' [-IN FEUDAL JAPAN-]!
** ''[[Film/{{TheRavenTrilogy}} When The Raven Flies]]'' by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (''Hrafninn flýgur'', 1984) is ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' [-WITH VIKINGS-]!
* ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' is ''Theatre/TheTempest'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Fortress 2: Re-entry'' is ''Film/{{Fortress 1992}}'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/{{Fury 2014}}'' is ''Film/DasBoot'' with ALLIED SOLDIERS in a TANK!
* ''Film/{{Gunmen}}'' is ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' [-IN NINETIES SOUTH AMERICA!-]
* ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'' was ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' in [-IN VICTORIAN FRANCE!-] and later [-IN SPACE!-]
* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' with [[SpaceJews JEWS]] [-IN SPACE!-]
* ''Film/HomeAlone 2: Lost in New York'' was basically ''exactly'' the same movie as ''Film/HomeAlone'', just set [-IN NEW YORK-]! Even the scary neighbor got a direct counterpart.
** This was even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Harry, who mentioned that Kevin threw two paint cans the last time they tried to climb up a flight of stairs, and saw it coming. Unfortunately for them, the second time around, a sewer pipe followed immediately afterward.
* ''Film/{{The Hunger Games}}'' is ''Film/BattleRoyale'' [-WITH TEEN ROMANCE! AND A [[LighterAndSofter PG-13 RATING]]!-]
* ''Film/{{Ikiru}}'' is [[Creator/LeoTolstoy Leo Tolstoy's]] ''The Death of Ivan Illych'' in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII post-war]] Japan.
* ''Film/JasonX'': ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' [-IN SPACE!-] Complete with Jason Voorhees getting turned into a {{cyborg}}.
* ''Film/KamenRiderJ'' is ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' [-AS A KAMEN RIDER SHOW!-]
* ''Knightriders'': According to an interview in ''American Film'', Creator/GeorgeRomero was having trouble selling a picture about KingArthur, until he exclaimed "I bet if I put the knights [-ON MOTORCYCLES!-] and added a rock soundtrack, you'd be interested."
* ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'': Film/TheVirginSpring (13th century Swedish ballad, dramatised by Creator/IngmarBergman in 1961) [-IN PRESENT DAY (1972) AMERICA!-]
* ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' not only went the [-IN SPACE!-] route with its fourth installment (which was actually titled ''Film/Leprechaun4InSpace''), it later went [-IN THE GHETTO!-] with the next film, ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood''. This idea was apparently popular enough that they went back to that well for ''Film/LeprechaunBack2ThaHood'' a few years later.
* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' is ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' [-IN SPACE!-], to the point that Creator/JohnCarpenter successfully sued the film-makers for plagiarism in the French courts.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Creator/PeterJackson's commentary revealed that he based his version of the Battle of Helm's Deep on the 1960s movie ''Film/{{Zulu}}'', depicting [[UsefulNotes/AngloZuluWar the Battle of Rorke's Drift]] where 139 British soldiers held off over 4,000 Zulu warriors during an twelve-hour siege.
* ''{{Film/Machete}}'' originally ended with the narrator declaring "''MACHETE WILL RETURN... IN...'' '''''MACHETE KILLS!''''' ''AND...'' '''''MACHETE KILLS AGAIN!'''''" During the runup to ''Film/MacheteKills'', Creator/RobertRodriguez claimed that the third movie had been retitled: "MACHETE KILLS AGAIN IN SPACE". A lot of people thought he was kidding. [[spoiler:These people were wrong. The second movie opens with a ludicrous and clearly fake trailer for "Machete Kills Again in Space", and then [[SequelHook ended with Machete actually pursuing the villain into space.]]]]
* ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' is Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [-IN THE AMERICAN OLD WEST-].
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' is ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' [-IN SPACE-]! In turn, ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' was basically ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' [-AT SEA-]!
* ''Film/{{Outland}}'' is ''Film/HighNoon'' [-IN SPACE-]!
* ''Film/ThePatriot'' is ''{{Film/Braveheart}}'' [-IN {{UsefulNotes/THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION}}!-]
* ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' is ''Film/MenInBlack'' [-In THE AFTERLIFE-]
* The 1964 film ''Film/RobinsonCrusoeOnMars'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** There was also ''Film/LtRobinCrusoeUSN'' which is ''RobinsonCrusoe'' [-AS A FIGHTER PILOT-]!
* ''Film/RogueOne'' is a {{War Movie|s}} [-IN SPACE!-] More specifically, a World War II movie [-[[Franchise/StarWars A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY!]]-]
* ''Film/RunAllNight'' is ''Film/RoadToPerdition'' [-IN MODERN DAY NEW YORK CITY-]!
* ''Film/{{Solarbabies}}'' is ''Film/MadMax'' [-[[RollerbladeGood ON ROLLER SKATES]]-]!
* [[TheNineties '90s]] Fox miniseries ''White Dwarf'' is an almost scene-by-scene remake of Kurosawa's ''Film/RedBeard'', with an added conspiracy subplot, [-IN SPACE-].
* ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' ends with a series of increasingly silly sequel ideas (''23 Jump Street: Medical School'', ''25 Jump Street: A Semester At Sea'') before finally capping off with ''2121 Jump Street: In Space''. Fittingly, the actual proposed ''23 Jump Street'' was initially planned as a {{crossover}} with ''Film/MenInBlack'', titled ''MIB 23'', though that idea appears to have [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/10/jonah-hill-23-jump-street-men-black-crossover fallen into]] DevelopmentHell.
* ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' is Creator/DashiellHammett's ''Literature/RedHarvest'' [-[[JidaiGeki IN FEUDAL JAPAN!]]-]
* ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' is ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' [-IN SPACE-]! Literally; in the story (by the same author) on which it is based, Zathura is the value-added bonus game on the reverse side of the Jumanji board (in the same way many checkerboards have a backgammon board on the back).
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* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is the 1934 play ''Thunderstorm'' [-IN IMPERIAL CHINA!-]

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* One website speculated that ''Film/{{Alien}}'' is basically ''Film/CatPeople'' [-IN SPACE!-]
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* In one of his Q&A specials, Creator/KevinSmith mentioned being offered a script for ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}} [[AlohaHawaii goes Hawaiian]]'' in the '90s. To which his response was, "Really? Didn't we say all we had to say with the first one?"

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* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' [-IN SPACE!-]

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* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' [-IN SPACE!-]SPACE!-] (helps Creator/JamesCameron wrote both) Or as the producers summed up, the VietnamWar [-IN SPACE-]!



* ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' is ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' [-IN SPACE-]! In turn, ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' was basically ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' [-AT SEA-]!

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* The ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' is ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' [-IN SPACE-]! In turn, ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' was basically ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' [-AT SEA-]!


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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically "[[WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks The Story of Catcher Freeman]]" [-AS A [[LiveActionAdaptation LIVE-ACTION MOVIE]]!-]
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* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' is ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' [-IN SPACE-], to the point that Creator/JohnCarpenter successfully sued the film-makers for plagiarism in the French courts.

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* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' is ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' [=IN SPACE=], to the point that Creator/JohnCarpenter successfully sued the film-makers for plagiarism in the French courts.

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* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' with [[SpaceJews JEWS]] [-IN SPACE!-]

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* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' is ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' [-IN SPACE-] (which in turn is ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [-IN AMERICA!-])

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* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' is ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' [-IN SPACE-] (which in turn is ''Film/SevenSamurai'' [-IN AMERICA!-])[[TheWildWest THE WILD WEST]]!-])



* ''Film/{{The Hunger Games}}'' is ''Film/BattleRoyale'' [-TONED DOWN WITH TEEN ROMANCE!-]

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* ''Film/{{The Hunger Games}}'' is ''Film/BattleRoyale'' [-TONED DOWN WITH [-WITH TEEN ROMANCE!-]ROMANCE! AND A [[LighterAndSofter PG-13 RATING]]!-]



* ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' not only went the [-IN SPACE!-] route with its fourth installment (which was actually titled ''Film/Leprechaun4InSpace''), it later went [-IN THE GHETTO!-] with the next film, ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood''. This idea was apparently popular enough that they went back to that well for ''Film/LeprechaunBack2ThaHood'' a few years later.



* ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' ends with a series of increasingly silly sequel ideas (23 Jump Street: Medical School, 25 Jump Street: A Semester At Sea) before finally capping off with 2121 Jump Street: In Space.

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* ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' ends with a series of increasingly silly sequel ideas (23 (''23 Jump Street: Medical School, 25 School'', ''25 Jump Street: A Semester At Sea) Sea'') before finally capping off with 2121 ''2121 Jump Street: In Space.Space''. Fittingly, the actual proposed ''23 Jump Street'' was initially planned as a {{crossover}} with ''Film/MenInBlack'', titled ''MIB 23'', though that idea appears to have [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/10/jonah-hill-23-jump-street-men-black-crossover fallen into]] DevelopmentHell.
* ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' is Creator/DashiellHammett's ''Literature/RedHarvest'' [-[[JidaiGeki IN FEUDAL JAPAN!]]-]

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* ''Creator/AbbottAndCostello Go to Mars''. [[NonIndicativeName In which Abbott and Costello go to Venus.]]
** And Yojimbo itself is more-or-less Creator/DashiellHammett's novel ''Literature/RedHarvest'' [-IN FEUDAL JAPAN-]!
** ''[[Film/{{TheRavenTrilogy}} When The Raven Flies]]'' by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (''Hrafninn flýgur'', 1984) is ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' [-WITH VIKINGS-]!


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* ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' ends with a series of increasingly silly sequel ideas (23 Jump Street: Medical School, 25 Jump Street: A Semester At Sea) before finally capping off with 2121 Jump Street: In Space.



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* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' and ''Film/LastManStanding'' are ''two different'' versions of ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' [-IN THE OLD WEST-]!



* The SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Antibody'' is ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' as a [-PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie-]!



* ''Film/TheDamned'' is basically ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' [[XMeetsY mixed with]] ''Literature/{{Buddenbrooks}}''... [-IN NAZI GERMANY!-]
* ''Film/{{DeathProof}}'' is more or less ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' remade as an orthodox SlasherMovie.
* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically "[[WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks The Story of Catcher Freeman]]" [-AS A [[LiveActionAdaptation LIVE-ACTION MOVIE]]!-]
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'' is best described as a metaphysical sci-fi reimagining of [[spoiler:''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'']]



* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' is ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' [-WITH ALIENS-]!
* One [[http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/29339/ex-machina/ review]] describes ''Film/ExMachina'' as "''Film/BasicInstinct'' for {{Robosexual}}s".



* Part of ''Film/TheFifthElement'' is ''[[Film/DieHard Die]] [[DieHardOnAnX Hard]]'' [-IN SPACE-]! (Also because both star BruceWillis.)

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* Part ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' and ''Film/LastManStanding'' are ''two different'' versions of ''Film/TheFifthElement'' is ''[[Film/DieHard Die]] [[DieHardOnAnX Hard]]'' ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' [-IN SPACE-]! (Also because both star BruceWillis.)THE OLD WEST-]!



* ''Film/GrandHotel'' (1932) may not have been the first movie to feature several plots connected by a single location, but it has been so influential that other films with a similar structure are often described as "''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN/ON/AROUND X-]!"
** ''Film/AmericanMadness'' (1932) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN A NEW YORK CITY BANK-]!
** ''Film/LifeBegins'' (1932) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN A MATERNITY WARD-]!
** ''Film/NightFlight'' (1933) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN A SOUTH AMERICAN AVIATION FIRM-]!
** ''Film/DinnerAtEight'' (1933) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-AROUND A MANHATTAN DINNER PARTY-]!
** ''Film/TheCaptainHatesTheSea'' (1934) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-ON A SHIP-]!
** ''Film/HotelBerlin'' (1945) (based on another book by Creator/VickiBaum) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN NAZI BERLIN-]!
** ''Film/TheSnakePit'' (1948) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN AN INSANE ASYLUM-]!
** And finally, ''Film/Hotel'' (1967) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN AN UPSCALE HOTEL-]!



* This trope is parodied in the Creator/MelBrooks film ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', where one of [[RealTrailerFakeMovie the previews of Part II]] involve Jews... [-IN SPACE-]! (Not to be confused with the trope SpaceJews, which is something else.) Also UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler... [-ON ICE-]!



* ''Film/TheOne'' is best described as ''{{Film/Highlander}}'' with the word, "immortals" replaced with the term, "parallel universe counterparts".



* Some have described the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' as ''Film/TopGun'' [-IN SPACE-]!



* The SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Antibody'' is ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' as a [-PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie-]!
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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is not only ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman" adapted into a [-LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM-], but it's also directed and written by [-[[Creator/QuentinTarantino QUENTIN TARANTINO]]-] instead of Aaron [=McGruder=]!

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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is not only ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The basically "[[WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks The Story of Catcher Freeman" adapted into a [-LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM-], but it's also directed and written by [-[[Creator/QuentinTarantino QUENTIN TARANTINO]]-] instead of Aaron [=McGruder=]!Freeman]]" [-AS A [[LiveActionAdaptation LIVE-ACTION MOVIE]]!-]
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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman" adapted into a [-LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM-], but also directed and written by [-[[Creator/QuentinTarantino QUENTIN TARANTINO]]-] instead of Aaron [=McGruder=]!

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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically not only ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman" adapted into a [-LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM-], but it's also directed and written by [-[[Creator/QuentinTarantino QUENTIN TARANTINO]]-] instead of Aaron [=McGruder=]!
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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman" adapted into a [-LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM-], but also directed and written by [-[[Creator/QuentinTarantino QUENTIN TARANTINO]]-]!

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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is basically ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman" adapted into a [-LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM-], but also directed and written by [-[[Creator/QuentinTarantino QUENTIN TARANTINO]]-]!TARANTINO]]-] instead of Aaron [=McGruder=]!

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* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' is ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' [-IN SPACE-]! Ironically, it had a lot of RecycledJokes. He's the Big Cheese, the Man In Charge...

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* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' is ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' [-IN SPACE-]! Ironically, it had a lot of RecycledJokes.{{Recycled Joke}}s. He's the Big Cheese, the Man In Charge...


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* The SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Antibody'' is ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' as a [-PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie-]!

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* ''Film/GrandHotel'' (1932) may not have been the first movie to feature several plots connected by a single location, but it has been so influential that other films are often described as "''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN/ON/AROUND X-]!"

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* ''Film/GrandHotel'' (1932) may not have been the first movie to feature several plots connected by a single location, but it has been so influential that other films with a similar structure are often described as "''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN/ON/AROUND X-]!"


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** ''Film/LifeBegins'' (1932) is ''Film/GrandHotel'' [-IN A MATERNITY WARD-]!
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* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is the 1934 play ''Thunderstorm'' [-IN IMPERIAL CHINA!-]

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