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* The 2018 film ''The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer'' is an adaptation of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' in which ... well, the title says it all, really.
* In the film adaptation of the comic ''ComicBook/{{Alena}}'' Fabian becomes Fabienne.
* Warrant Officer [[Characters/AlienMain Ripley]] from the first film in the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' franchise. It's a telling point in the ''SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality'' that the first iconic badass ''ActionGirl'' role was actually [[https://www.cbr.com/alien-ridley-scott-ripley-role-changed-male-female/ originally written as a man.]]
* ''Film/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld'': Corrections officer Ali Othrnan is changed to a female character and [[AdaptationNameChange renamed Barbara Hammond]].
* Dr. Kafka, the [[BedlamHouse Ravencroft Institute]]'s MadScientist in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'', played by Marton Csokas, is a gender-flip (and AdaptationalVillainy) version of Dr. Ashley Kafka, the [[TheShrink Awesome Shrink]] who founded the Institute in the comics.
* Dr. Peter Leavitt is changed into Dr. ''Ruth'' Leavitt in the film adaptation of ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''.
* Sandy the dog, (a male in the previous adaptations of ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'' as well as in ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie''), is a female in ''Film/Annie2014''.
* The 2020 ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' [[Film/ArtemisFowl movie]] turns the books' Commander Julius Root female, played by Dame Creator/JudiDench, no less.
* In the Creator/RussellBrand remake of ''Film/Arthur2011'', Hobson the butler, played by Sir Creator/JohnGielgud in the original, becomes Lillian Hobson the nanny, played by Dame Creator/HelenMirren. In addition, Arthur's mother takes the role his father had in the original.
* The 1967 version of ''Film/{{Bedazzled|1967}}'' starred Creator/PeterCook as the Devil. [[Film/Bedazzled2000 The 2000 remake]] cast Elizabeth Hurley in that role.
* ''Film/{{Burglar}}'' gender flipped several of the main characters, as well as giving a RaceLift to the protagonist. The movie was based on a series of novels by Lawrence Block about a white male bookstore owner/burglar. The screenplay was written after Creator/BruceWillis passed on the role and it became a vehicle for Whoopi Goldberg.
* Critics pointed out that much of ''Film/{{Byzantium}}'' is basically a gender-flipped take on Jordan's earlier film adaptation of ''Interview with the Vampire''.
* In the low-budget 1990 ''Film/{{Captain America|1990}}'' movie, Professor Erskine is reimagined as a female scientist named Maria Vaselli.
* In the 2019 [[Film/{{Cats}} film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Old Deuteronomy (who is male in the musical and the [[Literature/OldPossumsBookofPracticalCats source material]]) is played by actress Creator/JudiDench.
* There are far too many adaptations of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' with Ebenezer Scrooge replaced by a female with a similar backstory and attitude (but not necessarily the same age and attractiveness).
* Jaq the mouse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' becomes Jacqueline in ''Film/Cinderella2015''.
* The Jerry Lewis movie ''Film/{{Cinderfella}}'', as the title implies, is a Gender Flip of Literature/{{Cinderella}}, with a male Cinderella (played by Lewis, of course), a [[PrinceCharming Princess Charming]], a [[FairyGodmother fairy godfather]] played by Ed Wynn, and two stepbrothers (although the WickedStepmother remains female).
* ''Film/CocaineBear'': [[spoiler: The bear in the movie is female, while the real bear was male.]]
* ''Film/ColorOutOfSpace2020'' changes the Gardners' middle son from [[Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace the original short story]] into a daughter, Lavinia.
* A 1990s adaptation of Creator/MickeySpillane's ''Come Die With Me'' made Literature/MikeHammer's cop buddy Lt. Pat Chambers into ''Patricia'' Chambers.
* Creator/JessicaChastain's character in ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' is Vuk, a very obscure male alien who showed up back in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #4 during TheSixties. However, as Vuk's form was [[KillAndReplace stolen from a human woman she murdered]], her original alien gender is unknown.
* In the American remake of ''Film/LesDiaboliques'', the male detective Finchet became Shirley Vogel, portrayed by Creator/KathyBates.
* ''Film/DollyDearest'': The film is basically a gender flip of ''Film/ChildsPlay'' with a girl and a female doll.
* With its virtually identical ClearMyName plotline, one could consider the Creator/AshleyJudd vehicle ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'' to be a Gender Flip of ''Film/TheFugitive''. Both movies even feature Creator/TommyLeeJones as a lawman who first hunts for, then aids, the fugitive. We even get a misleading 911 call made by the victim [[spoiler:though as the audience soon learns, this was deliberately done in order to ensure that the woman would be convicted]], as well as the protagonist wailing, "I didn't kill my husband!", similar to Richard Kimble. Indeed, not only was the movie referred to as ''The Female Fugitive'' by several critics, people genuinely needed to be informed that it was NOT another sequel.
* ''Film/{{Dune 2021}}'' reimagines Liet Kynes, a white man in the novel and [[Film/Dune1984 the 1984 film]] (where he was played by Creator/MaxVonSydow), as a [[RaceLift Black]] woman played by Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
* In the live-action adaptation of Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Film/EndersGame'', the male character of Major Anderson is played by Viola Davis. Interestingly, they were originally going to have ''Graff'' played by a woman (an idea that met with Card's approval), but then Creator/HarrisonFord got the part, so they gender flipped Anderson instead.
* ''Film/EnolaHolmes2'' applies this to [[spoiler:Moriarty, who is in the film portrayed as a black woman played by Creator/SharonDuncanBrewster.]]
* ''Film/TheHustle'' is ''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels'' with conwomen preying on men instead of conmen preying on women. The tagline "Giving Dirty Rotten Men a Run for Their Money" acknowledges this.
* ''Franchise/EvilDead''
** Conversely, Creator/BruceCampbell in ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' plays what is essentially the FinalGirl of the horror movie. It wasn't planned that way, however. The order in which characters died was actually determined by actor availability. If an actor left early in the shoot, his or her character also died early in the movie. Apparently Campbell was the one without a life, though that seems to have worked to his benefit in the long run.
** In [[Film/EvilDead2013 the remake]][[spoiler: /StealthSequel]], Ash's role is filled by an {{Expy}} named Mia.
* This was done in both adaptations of the Literature/HerculePoirot story ''Evil Under the Sun'' by Creator/AgathaChristie:
** In the 1982 version, Emily Brewster becomes the flamboyant and effeminate Rex Brewster.
** In the 2001 version, the victim's teenaged stepdaughter Linda turns into a stepson Lionel.
* The film ''Film/EyeInTheSky'''s protagonist Colonel Powell was originally written to be a male. It was changed to a female, played by Helen Mirren.
* ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood'' is supposedly a sequel to [[Film/FrightNight2011 the 2011 remake]] of [[Film/FrightNight1985 the 1985 movie]], but it's really just another remake with Jerry (renamed Gerri) as a female vampire. Oh, and [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace it's set in Romania instead of the United States]].
* In the original ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', the eponymous ghost-hunting team is made up of four men with a female secretary. In [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 the 2016 remake]], the team is all-female and their secretary is a man.
* The plot of ''Film/Grease2'' is basically a flip of the first movie's plot. The guy is now the naïve, sweet one and the girl is the tough, experienced gang member.
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, every player on the Slytherin Quidditch team either has a male first name or is referred to only by their surname. In the first film, however, their Keeper (Miles Bletchley in the book) is replaced by a girl.
* Zig-zagged with ''Film/{{Hellraiser 2022}}''. This film's version of Pinhead, the Priest, is portrayed by a woman for the first time, which flips the precedent for the films but is more accurate to ''Literature/TheHellboundHeart'', as in the novella "Pinhead" was an ambiguously-gendered Cenobite whose only clue to their gender was a feminine voice.
* Double subverted in the short film ''Film/HighAndTight'' where the third Olsen sibling was first a boy called Seth - then changed to a girl called Serena. Then when the original actress dropped out and no replacements could be found in time, the character became a boy again.
* ''Film/HeadOverHeels2001'' is a gender-flipped romantic comedy version of ''Film/RearWindow''.
* The Creator/HowardHawks classic newspaper comedy ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' is a gender-flipped version of the play ''The Front Page'' (which had already been made into an acclaimed movie once before). Hawks turned the "Hildy Johnson" character into a woman and made it a romantic comedy. Creator/BillyWilder later remade it yet again with two male protagonists, and then an '80s remake called ''Switching Channels'' - set this time in the television news industry - put the romance aspect back.
* In a WhatCouldHaveBeen example, when ''Film/DonnieDarko'' director Richard Kelly was offered the chance to helm a film adaptation of Louis Sachar's ''Literature/{{Holes}}'', his screenplay for the movie changed the female warden of Camp Green Lake (real name [[GenderBlenderName Lou Walker]]) to an unnamed man--among many, ''many'' other changes [[InNameOnly that left the story almost unrecognizable]].
* The MadeForTVMovie ''How to Marry a Billionaire'' is a SettingUpdate of ''Film/HowToMarryAMillionaire'', except it's about three men looking for rich wives.
* The ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' movie sees Eric Raymond from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' turned into a woman (Eric'''a'''). [[spoiler:She's also Rio's mother]].
* In both Disney's [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 2016 live action adaptation]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' and Warner Bros' [[Film/{{Mowgli}} 2018 live action adaptation]] of same, the giant snake Kaa is now a female. The major difference being that she's a [[AdaptationalVillainy villain]] in the 2016 work, a [[TruerToTheText hero]] in the 2018 one.
* The film adaptation of ''Film/JurassicPark'' switched the roles of Hammond's grandchildren, making Lex (the girl) the older one and the computer genius. This was done in order to give Lex more characterization. In the original novel Tim was a TeenGenius that was both computer savvy and obsessed with dinosaurs, while Lex was just annoying.
* Gazelle was a man in ''ComicBook/TheSecretService'', but a woman in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''.
* In the [[Film/KPax film adaptation of]] ''Literature/KPax'', the novels' Dr. Klaus Villars -- a white, bearded, German-accented, classically Freud-reminiscent psychiatrist -- becomes Dr. Claudia Villars, a female Black-American played by Alfre Woodard.
* ''Film/JungleCruise'' features a female version of the ride's shrunken head salesman Trader Sam as the native tribe's chieftain, briefly donning a tophat much like the Walt Disney World version of the character.
* ''Film/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'': Molina was a transgender woman in the book, but is a cisgender man now.
* ''Film/LadyAndTheTramp2019'' changes Jock from male to female (her name becomes a nickname for Jacqueline), makes Jim Dear and Darling's baby a girl named Lulu instead of a boy, and changes the female Siamese cats into male [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange Devon Rexes.]]
* ''Film/{{Lantana}}'', based on ''Theatre/SpeakingInTongues'', turns Valerie's patient Sarah Phelan into a gay male patient, Patrick Phelan.
* In ''Film/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist'', which is loosely based on the second half of the first ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book, investigative reporter Eric Miller becomes Erica Miller working for GWN.
* ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' has one of the eight half-brothers changed from a crossdressing male to a female portrayed by Creator/SueShiomi.
* In "Literature/LetTheRightOneIn" the vampire Eli despite being assumed to be female was actually a boy who was castrated as a child. In the American adaption "Film/LetMeIn" the vampire Abby is definitely female, there's even a deleted scene which shows Abby a female when she was turned.
* Creator/KennethBranagh's 2000 film adaptation of ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' changed Holofernes into Holofernia, played by Geraldine [=McEwan=].
* The Creator/PatrickDempsey film ''Made of Honor'' is clearly this of the ''Creator/JuliaRoberts'' vehicle ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', given their identical plots--person realizes that they're in love with their opposite-sex best friend just as said friend announces their engagement, is roped into being part of the bridal party and spends the ensuing time pulling numerous manipulative stunts to break up the relationship. In true DoubleStandard style, Julia Roberts character, a woman, is blasted for her behavior and does NOT get the guy, whereas Patrick Dempsey ends up married to the girl.
* In ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' [[spoiler: Since [[CleverCrows Diaval]] becomes the iconic dragon, and not Maleficent, this would mean the dragon of this continuity is male.]]
* The original Music/{{ABBA}} recording of "Does Your Mother Know?" was an older man singing to a barely (or possibly not quite) legal girl, whereas in ''Theatre/MammaMia'' it's flipped to a middle-aged woman singing to the very persistent and very young man who's pursuing her.
* In place of Jimmy Olsen at the Daily Planet is a young woman named Jenny in ''Film/ManOfSteel''. [[FlipFlopOfGod However]] Jenny's last name is confirmed NOT to be Olsen, so there is room for a red headed male photographer in the sequel. If you pay attention, the movie shows her last name to be "Jurwich"... but one tie-in book makes it Olsen, so it's hard to say for sure.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s [[spoiler: youngest child (adapted from the second volume of ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'') is changed from a girl named Nicole to a boy named Nathaniel (after his "[[HonoraryAunt Auntie]] [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Nat]]".]] Lampshaded in-universe, as they mention that they were expecting a girl. [[spoiler:His middle child is also changed from a boy named Lewis to a girl named Lila. The oldest child is not flipped, although he does get a name change from Callum to Cooper.]]
** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Mainframe is a female android voiced by Creator/MileyCyrus, despite being a male, futuristic counterpart of ComicBook/TheVision.
** In ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', Ghost goes from being a white man to a [[RaceLift biracial]] woman.
** ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'':
*** [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Captain Mar-Vell]] is a woman, played by Creator/AnnetteBening. The character's human alter ego is consequently changed from "Walter Lawson" to "Wendy Lawson."
*** Complicated example with the Kree Supreme Intelligence. [[spoiler: In the comics, the Supreme Intelligence is basically a giant floating head, but has nonetheless often been referred to with male pronouns (or none at all), and has always been voiced by male actors whenever it showed up in TV shows and video games. In the film, however, the Supreme Intelligence takes on a form unique to whoever it is talking to, meaning that when it appears onscreen to commune with Carol Danvers, it looks like the aforementioned Mar-Vell and is once again played by Bening.]]
** In ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', the characters Makkari, Ajak and Sprite, all of whom are men in [[ComicBook/TheEternals the original comics]], are played by women. The three of them were brought BackFromTheDead in the comics as woman [[RetCanon to match their portrayals here]].
** In ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', [[spoiler: Comicbook/{{Taskmaster}}]] turns out to be a woman, with the character's real name changed from [[spoiler:Anthony Masters to Antonia Dreykov]].
** Cosmo the Spacedog is male in the comics, but her first speaking role in ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' has her female. According to Creator/JamesGunn, this was to make her more like the character's real-life inspiration [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace Laika]].
* Creator/VanessaRedgrave's role in ''Film/MissionImpossible'' was originally written for a man.
* Jacob Portman's male psychiatrist Dr. Golan from ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' is played by actress Creator/AllisonJanney in [[Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren the film adaptation]], subverted in that like in the book [[spoiler:Dr. Golan turns out to be the false identity of a male Wight]].
* In the Creator/JossWhedon film of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', one of the villain's lackeys, named Conrad, is female. The part has always been, in the past, a basic male role.
* In ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', Ben Gunn from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' is changed to Benjamina Gunn just so [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]] can have a role to play.
* The remake of ''Film/{{Overboard|2018}}'' gender flips the two main characters from the original movie.
* The character Carin from ''Film/PatchAdams'' is a female medical student who Patch has a romantic relationship with, was molested as a child and is eventually killed by a mentally ill patient. In reality, "she" was Hunter Adams' best male friend, who he did not have a romantic relationship with, and while he was killed under similar circumstances, it was much earlier than the film depicts. This was one of the many reasons the RealLife Hunter Adams has openly criticised the movie based on his life.
* ''Film/{{Ran}}'' is a partial Gender Flip of ''Theatre/KingLear'', changing the gender of the daughters and Edmund.
* ''Film/{{Rags}}'' is a gender flip of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', where Cinderella is now a boy named Charlie with a stepfather and stepbrothers, and the Prince is a female popstar named Kadee Worth.
* The [[Film/TheRelic film adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheRelic'' saw Linda Hunt play the museum director Anne Cuthbert, a character who, in the original novel, was a man named Ian Cuthbert.
* In ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'', Doctor Watson is a woman, played by actress Bessie Nellis.
* Nearly every adaptation of ''Literature/TheRing'' changes the male protagonist into a female, and his baby daughter into a kid son. The only adaptation to keep the protagonist male is an obscure 1995 Japanese MadeForTVMovie called ''Ring: Kanzenban''.
* ''Film/RoboCop2014'' sees Anne Lewis changed into an [[RaceLift African-American]] man named [[AdaptationNameChange Jack]] Lewis. Conversely, Chief Dean is a female version of Sgt. Reed.
* Most shadowcasts of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' will let anyone, regardless of gender, audition for any part. ("Genderfuck" versions specifically gender flip ''all'' the roles.)
* ''Film/RoughNight'' is the same premise as ''Film/VeryBadThings'' with the genders reversed.
* The 2022 remake of ''Literature/SalemsLot'' has Dr. Cody, a man in the original novel and prior adaptations, played by Creator/AlfreWoodard.
* The title character of ''Film/{{Salt}}'' was originally named Edward and played by Creator/TomCruise, but he dropped out. When Creator/AngelinaJolie stepped in, the writers changed Ed to Evelyn and also decided to make Salt's spouse less of a DamselInDistress.
* The film version of ''[[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Sgt. Bilko]]'' turned Cpl Rocky Barbella into Cpl Raquelle Barbella. (Bilko's other sidekick, Cpl Henshaw, was given a RaceLift).
* The movie adaptation of ''Film/SilentHill'' replaced Harry Mason with Rose Dasilva. The idea was to play up the notion that a mother is even more attached to her child than a father, particularly if the child is a girl. Interestingly, the father was played by Creator/SeanBean, who does look a bit like Harry Mason. In the sequel, Bean's character has taken the name Harry Mason, but still isn't the protagonist.
* In ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'', King Bera of Sodom from the Literature/BookOfGenesis becomes Queen Bera of Sodom.
* Spotted in ''Film/SonOfMan'', an adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ that takes place in modern Africa. Several of the disciples are portrayed by women, with feminized versions of their original names to match.
* The character of Dizzy Flores in ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' was a man in the [[Literature/StarshipTroopers original Robert A. Heinlein novel]]. In the [[Film/StarshipTroopers movie]], he was switched to a she, given a much bigger role, and played by Dina Meyers. ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'' followed the movie's lead. [[note]]It may be more accurate to say that Dizzy Flores was turned into a character, as well as a woman, in the movie. In the book, Dizzy has no lines, only appears near the end of chapter 1, and dies at the end of it.[[/note]]
* The 1996 made-for-TV movie, ''The Stepford Husbands'' is, as its name suggests, ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' with the gender roles reversed-this time it's the women seeking to make their husbands "perfect".
* The original screenplay for ''Film/StreetsOfFire'' had the role of [=McCoy=], the hero's old army buddy, written as a male. Actress Amy Madigan, while auditioning for a different role, convinced the filmmakers to let her play [=McCoy=] as a tough, strong woman instead, without rewriting the part.
* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' makes the Ratcatcher, a middle-aged male in the comics, into a teenage girl. Downplayed in that the character is named Ratcatcher 2, implying she's the original male Ratcatcher's CanonForeigner [[AffirmativeActionLegacy successor]].
* In ''The Survivor'', Hobbs (played by Creator/JennyAgutter) was a man in Creator/JamesHerbert's original novel.
* The female lead of the 1982 ''Film/SwampThing'' movie is a government agent named Alice Cable, based on Agent ''Matthew'' Cable from the original comics.
* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', April's boss Burne Thompson is now an [[RaceLift African-American]] woman named Bernadette Thompson, played by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg.
* In ''Film/TheTempest2010'' directed by Julie Taymor, the character Prospero is changed to Prospera and played by Creator/HelenMirren.
* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': In "Kick the Can", the Sunnyvale Retirement Home administrator is Miss Cox. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E86KickTheCan original episode]], it is Mr. Cox.
* And it happened again during the production of ''Film/VantagePoint'' (2008), where Sigourney Weaver played the also originally male TV producer Rex Brooks.
* In ''Film/WarCraft2016'', [[spoiler:Alodi]], who's male in the game the film's based on, is female (or at least [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith female-appearing]]).
* ''Film/WeeWillieWinkie'' was based on a Creator/RudyardKipling short story in which the protagonist was a little boy. When the story was adapted for the screen, it became a Creator/ShirleyTemple vehicle, and the main character became a girl.
* In the original novel version of ''Film/WintersBone'', protagonist Ree had two younger brothers. In the film version, one of them is a girl.
* In BMovie series ''Witchcraft'' (possibly best known from Creator/AllisonPregler's reviews) a police officer named Lutz first appears as a man in the sixth film and is suddenly a woman in the seventh, with no explanation. The thirteenth and final film, in its valiant attempts to close all the series' {{Plot Hole}}s, {{Ret Con}}ned the two Lutzes into siblings.
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* The 2018 film ''The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer'' is an adaptation of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' in which ... well, the title says it all, really.
* In the film adaptation of the comic ''ComicBook/{{Alena}}'' Fabian becomes Fabienne.
* Warrant Officer [[Characters/AlienMain Ripley]] from the first film in the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' franchise. It's a telling point in the ''SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality'' that the first iconic badass ''ActionGirl'' role was actually [[https://www.cbr.com/alien-ridley-scott-ripley-role-changed-male-female/ originally written as a man.]]
* ''Film/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld'': Corrections officer Ali Othrnan is changed to a female character and [[AdaptationNameChange renamed Barbara Hammond]].
* Dr. Kafka, the [[BedlamHouse Ravencroft Institute]]'s MadScientist in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'', played by Marton Csokas, is a gender-flip (and AdaptationalVillainy) version of Dr. Ashley Kafka, the [[TheShrink Awesome Shrink]] who founded the Institute in the comics.
* Dr. Peter Leavitt is changed into Dr. ''Ruth'' Leavitt in the film adaptation of ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''.
* Sandy the dog, (a male in the previous adaptations of ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'' as well as in ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie''), is a female in ''Film/Annie2014''.
* The 2020 ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' [[Film/ArtemisFowl movie]] turns the books' Commander Julius Root female, played by Dame Creator/JudiDench, no less.
* In the Creator/RussellBrand remake of ''Film/Arthur2011'', Hobson the butler, played by Sir Creator/JohnGielgud in the original, becomes Lillian Hobson the nanny, played by Dame Creator/HelenMirren. In addition, Arthur's mother takes the role his father had in the original.
* The 1967 version of ''Film/{{Bedazzled|1967}}'' starred Creator/PeterCook as the Devil. [[Film/Bedazzled2000 The 2000 remake]] cast Elizabeth Hurley in that role.
* ''Film/{{Burglar}}'' gender flipped several of the main characters, as well as giving a RaceLift to the protagonist. The movie was based on a series of novels by Lawrence Block about a white male bookstore owner/burglar. The screenplay was written after Creator/BruceWillis passed on the role and it became a vehicle for Whoopi Goldberg.
* Critics pointed out that much of ''Film/{{Byzantium}}'' is basically a gender-flipped take on Jordan's earlier film adaptation of ''Interview with the Vampire''.
* In the low-budget 1990 ''Film/{{Captain America|1990}}'' movie, Professor Erskine is reimagined as a female scientist named Maria Vaselli.
* In the 2019 [[Film/{{Cats}} film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Old Deuteronomy (who is male in the musical and the [[Literature/OldPossumsBookofPracticalCats source material]]) is played by actress Creator/JudiDench.
* There are far too many adaptations of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' with Ebenezer Scrooge replaced by a female with a similar backstory and attitude (but not necessarily the same age and attractiveness).
* Jaq the mouse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' becomes Jacqueline in ''Film/Cinderella2015''.
* The Jerry Lewis movie ''Film/{{Cinderfella}}'', as the title implies, is a Gender Flip of Literature/{{Cinderella}}, with a male Cinderella (played by Lewis, of course), a [[PrinceCharming Princess Charming]], a [[FairyGodmother fairy godfather]] played by Ed Wynn, and two stepbrothers (although the WickedStepmother remains female).
* ''Film/CocaineBear'': [[spoiler: The bear in the movie is female, while the real bear was male.]]
* ''Film/ColorOutOfSpace2020'' changes the Gardners' middle son from [[Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace the original short story]] into a daughter, Lavinia.
* A 1990s adaptation of Creator/MickeySpillane's ''Come Die With Me'' made Literature/MikeHammer's cop buddy Lt. Pat Chambers into ''Patricia'' Chambers.
* Creator/JessicaChastain's character in ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' is Vuk, a very obscure male alien who showed up back in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #4 during TheSixties. However, as Vuk's form was [[KillAndReplace stolen from a human woman she murdered]], her original alien gender is unknown.
* In the American remake of ''Film/LesDiaboliques'', the male detective Finchet became Shirley Vogel, portrayed by Creator/KathyBates.
* ''Film/DollyDearest'': The film is basically a gender flip of ''Film/ChildsPlay'' with a girl and a female doll.
* With its virtually identical ClearMyName plotline, one could consider the Creator/AshleyJudd vehicle ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'' to be a Gender Flip of ''Film/TheFugitive''. Both movies even feature Creator/TommyLeeJones as a lawman who first hunts for, then aids, the fugitive. We even get a misleading 911 call made by the victim [[spoiler:though as the audience soon learns, this was deliberately done in order to ensure that the woman would be convicted]], as well as the protagonist wailing, "I didn't kill my husband!", similar to Richard Kimble. Indeed, not only was the movie referred to as ''The Female Fugitive'' by several critics, people genuinely needed to be informed that it was NOT another sequel.
* ''Film/{{Dune 2021}}'' reimagines Liet Kynes, a white man in the novel and [[Film/Dune1984 the 1984 film]] (where he was played by Creator/MaxVonSydow), as a [[RaceLift Black]] woman played by Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
* In the live-action adaptation of Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Film/EndersGame'', the male character of Major Anderson is played by Viola Davis. Interestingly, they were originally going to have ''Graff'' played by a woman (an idea that met with Card's approval), but then Creator/HarrisonFord got the part, so they gender flipped Anderson instead.
* ''Film/EnolaHolmes2'' applies this to [[spoiler:Moriarty, who is in the film portrayed as a black woman played by Creator/SharonDuncanBrewster.]]
* ''Film/TheHustle'' is ''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels'' with conwomen preying on men instead of conmen preying on women. The tagline "Giving Dirty Rotten Men a Run for Their Money" acknowledges this.
* ''Franchise/EvilDead''
** Conversely, Creator/BruceCampbell in ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' plays what is essentially the FinalGirl of the horror movie. It wasn't planned that way, however. The order in which characters died was actually determined by actor availability. If an actor left early in the shoot, his or her character also died early in the movie. Apparently Campbell was the one without a life, though that seems to have worked to his benefit in the long run.
** In [[Film/EvilDead2013 the remake]][[spoiler: /StealthSequel]], Ash's role is filled by an {{Expy}} named Mia.
* This was done in both adaptations of the Literature/HerculePoirot story ''Evil Under the Sun'' by Creator/AgathaChristie:
** In the 1982 version, Emily Brewster becomes the flamboyant and effeminate Rex Brewster.
** In the 2001 version, the victim's teenaged stepdaughter Linda turns into a stepson Lionel.
* The film ''Film/EyeInTheSky'''s protagonist Colonel Powell was originally written to be a male. It was changed to a female, played by Helen Mirren.
* ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood'' is supposedly a sequel to [[Film/FrightNight2011 the 2011 remake]] of [[Film/FrightNight1985 the 1985 movie]], but it's really just another remake with Jerry (renamed Gerri) as a female vampire. Oh, and [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace it's set in Romania instead of the United States]].
* In the original ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', the eponymous ghost-hunting team is made up of four men with a female secretary. In [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 the 2016 remake]], the team is all-female and their secretary is a man.
* The plot of ''Film/Grease2'' is basically a flip of the first movie's plot. The guy is now the naïve, sweet one and the girl is the tough, experienced gang member.
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, every player on the Slytherin Quidditch team either has a male first name or is referred to only by their surname. In the first film, however, their Keeper (Miles Bletchley in the book) is replaced by a girl.
* Zig-zagged with ''Film/{{Hellraiser 2022}}''. This film's version of Pinhead, the Priest, is portrayed by a woman for the first time, which flips the precedent for the films but is more accurate to ''Literature/TheHellboundHeart'', as in the novella "Pinhead" was an ambiguously-gendered Cenobite whose only clue to their gender was a feminine voice.
* Double subverted in the short film ''Film/HighAndTight'' where the third Olsen sibling was first a boy called Seth - then changed to a girl called Serena. Then when the original actress dropped out and no replacements could be found in time, the character became a boy again.
* ''Film/HeadOverHeels2001'' is a gender-flipped romantic comedy version of ''Film/RearWindow''.
* The Creator/HowardHawks classic newspaper comedy ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' is a gender-flipped version of the play ''The Front Page'' (which had already been made into an acclaimed movie once before). Hawks turned the "Hildy Johnson" character into a woman and made it a romantic comedy. Creator/BillyWilder later remade it yet again with two male protagonists, and then an '80s remake called ''Switching Channels'' - set this time in the television news industry - put the romance aspect back.
* In a WhatCouldHaveBeen example, when ''Film/DonnieDarko'' director Richard Kelly was offered the chance to helm a film adaptation of Louis Sachar's ''Literature/{{Holes}}'', his screenplay for the movie changed the female warden of Camp Green Lake (real name [[GenderBlenderName Lou Walker]]) to an unnamed man--among many, ''many'' other changes [[InNameOnly that left the story almost unrecognizable]].
* The MadeForTVMovie ''How to Marry a Billionaire'' is a SettingUpdate of ''Film/HowToMarryAMillionaire'', except it's about three men looking for rich wives.
* The ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' movie sees Eric Raymond from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' turned into a woman (Eric'''a'''). [[spoiler:She's also Rio's mother]].
* In both Disney's [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 2016 live action adaptation]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' and Warner Bros' [[Film/{{Mowgli}} 2018 live action adaptation]] of same, the giant snake Kaa is now a female. The major difference being that she's a [[AdaptationalVillainy villain]] in the 2016 work, a [[TruerToTheText hero]] in the 2018 one.
* The film adaptation of ''Film/JurassicPark'' switched the roles of Hammond's grandchildren, making Lex (the girl) the older one and the computer genius. This was done in order to give Lex more characterization. In the original novel Tim was a TeenGenius that was both computer savvy and obsessed with dinosaurs, while Lex was just annoying.
* Gazelle was a man in ''ComicBook/TheSecretService'', but a woman in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''.
* In the [[Film/KPax film adaptation of]] ''Literature/KPax'', the novels' Dr. Klaus Villars -- a white, bearded, German-accented, classically Freud-reminiscent psychiatrist -- becomes Dr. Claudia Villars, a female Black-American played by Alfre Woodard.
* ''Film/JungleCruise'' features a female version of the ride's shrunken head salesman Trader Sam as the native tribe's chieftain, briefly donning a tophat much like the Walt Disney World version of the character.
* ''Film/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'': Molina was a transgender woman in the book, but is a cisgender man now.
* ''Film/LadyAndTheTramp2019'' changes Jock from male to female (her name becomes a nickname for Jacqueline), makes Jim Dear and Darling's baby a girl named Lulu instead of a boy, and changes the female Siamese cats into male [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange Devon Rexes.]]
* ''Film/{{Lantana}}'', based on ''Theatre/SpeakingInTongues'', turns Valerie's patient Sarah Phelan into a gay male patient, Patrick Phelan.
* In ''Film/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist'', which is loosely based on the second half of the first ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book, investigative reporter Eric Miller becomes Erica Miller working for GWN.
* ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' has one of the eight half-brothers changed from a crossdressing male to a female portrayed by Creator/SueShiomi.
* In "Literature/LetTheRightOneIn" the vampire Eli despite being assumed to be female was actually a boy who was castrated as a child. In the American adaption "Film/LetMeIn" the vampire Abby is definitely female, there's even a deleted scene which shows Abby a female when she was turned.
* Creator/KennethBranagh's 2000 film adaptation of ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' changed Holofernes into Holofernia, played by Geraldine [=McEwan=].
* The Creator/PatrickDempsey film ''Made of Honor'' is clearly this of the ''Creator/JuliaRoberts'' vehicle ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', given their identical plots--person realizes that they're in love with their opposite-sex best friend just as said friend announces their engagement, is roped into being part of the bridal party and spends the ensuing time pulling numerous manipulative stunts to break up the relationship. In true DoubleStandard style, Julia Roberts character, a woman, is blasted for her behavior and does NOT get the guy, whereas Patrick Dempsey ends up married to the girl.
* In ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' [[spoiler: Since [[CleverCrows Diaval]] becomes the iconic dragon, and not Maleficent, this would mean the dragon of this continuity is male.]]
* The original Music/{{ABBA}} recording of "Does Your Mother Know?" was an older man singing to a barely (or possibly not quite) legal girl, whereas in ''Theatre/MammaMia'' it's flipped to a middle-aged woman singing to the very persistent and very young man who's pursuing her.
* In place of Jimmy Olsen at the Daily Planet is a young woman named Jenny in ''Film/ManOfSteel''. [[FlipFlopOfGod However]] Jenny's last name is confirmed NOT to be Olsen, so there is room for a red headed male photographer in the sequel. If you pay attention, the movie shows her last name to be "Jurwich"... but one tie-in book makes it Olsen, so it's hard to say for sure.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s [[spoiler: youngest child (adapted from the second volume of ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'') is changed from a girl named Nicole to a boy named Nathaniel (after his "[[HonoraryAunt Auntie]] [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Nat]]".]] Lampshaded in-universe, as they mention that they were expecting a girl. [[spoiler:His middle child is also changed from a boy named Lewis to a girl named Lila. The oldest child is not flipped, although he does get a name change from Callum to Cooper.]]
** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Mainframe is a female android voiced by Creator/MileyCyrus, despite being a male, futuristic counterpart of ComicBook/TheVision.
** In ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', Ghost goes from being a white man to a [[RaceLift biracial]] woman.
** ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'':
*** [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Captain Mar-Vell]] is a woman, played by Creator/AnnetteBening. The character's human alter ego is consequently changed from "Walter Lawson" to "Wendy Lawson."
*** Complicated example with the Kree Supreme Intelligence. [[spoiler: In the comics, the Supreme Intelligence is basically a giant floating head, but has nonetheless often been referred to with male pronouns (or none at all), and has always been voiced by male actors whenever it showed up in TV shows and video games. In the film, however, the Supreme Intelligence takes on a form unique to whoever it is talking to, meaning that when it appears onscreen to commune with Carol Danvers, it looks like the aforementioned Mar-Vell and is once again played by Bening.]]
** In ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', the characters Makkari, Ajak and Sprite, all of whom are men in [[ComicBook/TheEternals the original comics]], are played by women. The three of them were brought BackFromTheDead in the comics as woman [[RetCanon to match their portrayals here]].
** In ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', [[spoiler: Comicbook/{{Taskmaster}}]] turns out to be a woman, with the character's real name changed from [[spoiler:Anthony Masters to Antonia Dreykov]].
** Cosmo the Spacedog is male in the comics, but her first speaking role in ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' has her female. According to Creator/JamesGunn, this was to make her more like the character's real-life inspiration [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace Laika]].
* Creator/VanessaRedgrave's role in ''Film/MissionImpossible'' was originally written for a man.
* Jacob Portman's male psychiatrist Dr. Golan from ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' is played by actress Creator/AllisonJanney in [[Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren the film adaptation]], subverted in that like in the book [[spoiler:Dr. Golan turns out to be the false identity of a male Wight]].
* In the Creator/JossWhedon film of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', one of the villain's lackeys, named Conrad, is female. The part has always been, in the past, a basic male role.
* In ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', Ben Gunn from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' is changed to Benjamina Gunn just so [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]] can have a role to play.
* The remake of ''Film/{{Overboard|2018}}'' gender flips the two main characters from the original movie.
* The character Carin from ''Film/PatchAdams'' is a female medical student who Patch has a romantic relationship with, was molested as a child and is eventually killed by a mentally ill patient. In reality, "she" was Hunter Adams' best male friend, who he did not have a romantic relationship with, and while he was killed under similar circumstances, it was much earlier than the film depicts. This was one of the many reasons the RealLife Hunter Adams has openly criticised the movie based on his life.
* ''Film/{{Ran}}'' is a partial Gender Flip of ''Theatre/KingLear'', changing the gender of the daughters and Edmund.
* ''Film/{{Rags}}'' is a gender flip of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', where Cinderella is now a boy named Charlie with a stepfather and stepbrothers, and the Prince is a female popstar named Kadee Worth.
* The [[Film/TheRelic film adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheRelic'' saw Linda Hunt play the museum director Anne Cuthbert, a character who, in the original novel, was a man named Ian Cuthbert.
* In ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'', Doctor Watson is a woman, played by actress Bessie Nellis.
* Nearly every adaptation of ''Literature/TheRing'' changes the male protagonist into a female, and his baby daughter into a kid son. The only adaptation to keep the protagonist male is an obscure 1995 Japanese MadeForTVMovie called ''Ring: Kanzenban''.
* ''Film/RoboCop2014'' sees Anne Lewis changed into an [[RaceLift African-American]] man named [[AdaptationNameChange Jack]] Lewis. Conversely, Chief Dean is a female version of Sgt. Reed.
* Most shadowcasts of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' will let anyone, regardless of gender, audition for any part. ("Genderfuck" versions specifically gender flip ''all'' the roles.)
* ''Film/RoughNight'' is the same premise as ''Film/VeryBadThings'' with the genders reversed.
* The 2022 remake of ''Literature/SalemsLot'' has Dr. Cody, a man in the original novel and prior adaptations, played by Creator/AlfreWoodard.
* The title character of ''Film/{{Salt}}'' was originally named Edward and played by Creator/TomCruise, but he dropped out. When Creator/AngelinaJolie stepped in, the writers changed Ed to Evelyn and also decided to make Salt's spouse less of a DamselInDistress.
* The film version of ''[[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Sgt. Bilko]]'' turned Cpl Rocky Barbella into Cpl Raquelle Barbella. (Bilko's other sidekick, Cpl Henshaw, was given a RaceLift).
* The movie adaptation of ''Film/SilentHill'' replaced Harry Mason with Rose Dasilva. The idea was to play up the notion that a mother is even more attached to her child than a father, particularly if the child is a girl. Interestingly, the father was played by Creator/SeanBean, who does look a bit like Harry Mason. In the sequel, Bean's character has taken the name Harry Mason, but still isn't the protagonist.
* In ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'', King Bera of Sodom from the Literature/BookOfGenesis becomes Queen Bera of Sodom.
* Spotted in ''Film/SonOfMan'', an adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ that takes place in modern Africa. Several of the disciples are portrayed by women, with feminized versions of their original names to match.
* The character of Dizzy Flores in ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' was a man in the [[Literature/StarshipTroopers original Robert A. Heinlein novel]]. In the [[Film/StarshipTroopers movie]], he was switched to a she, given a much bigger role, and played by Dina Meyers. ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'' followed the movie's lead. [[note]]It may be more accurate to say that Dizzy Flores was turned into a character, as well as a woman, in the movie. In the book, Dizzy has no lines, only appears near the end of chapter 1, and dies at the end of it.[[/note]]
* The 1996 made-for-TV movie, ''The Stepford Husbands'' is, as its name suggests, ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' with the gender roles reversed-this time it's the women seeking to make their husbands "perfect".
* The original screenplay for ''Film/StreetsOfFire'' had the role of [=McCoy=], the hero's old army buddy, written as a male. Actress Amy Madigan, while auditioning for a different role, convinced the filmmakers to let her play [=McCoy=] as a tough, strong woman instead, without rewriting the part.
* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' makes the Ratcatcher, a middle-aged male in the comics, into a teenage girl. Downplayed in that the character is named Ratcatcher 2, implying she's the original male Ratcatcher's CanonForeigner [[AffirmativeActionLegacy successor]].
* In ''The Survivor'', Hobbs (played by Creator/JennyAgutter) was a man in Creator/JamesHerbert's original novel.
* The female lead of the 1982 ''Film/SwampThing'' movie is a government agent named Alice Cable, based on Agent ''Matthew'' Cable from the original comics.
* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', April's boss Burne Thompson is now an [[RaceLift African-American]] woman named Bernadette Thompson, played by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg.
* In ''Film/TheTempest2010'' directed by Julie Taymor, the character Prospero is changed to Prospera and played by Creator/HelenMirren.
* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': In "Kick the Can", the Sunnyvale Retirement Home administrator is Miss Cox. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E86KickTheCan original episode]], it is Mr. Cox.
* And it happened again during the production of ''Film/VantagePoint'' (2008), where Sigourney Weaver played the also originally male TV producer Rex Brooks.
* In ''Film/WarCraft2016'', [[spoiler:Alodi]], who's male in the game the film's based on, is female (or at least [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith female-appearing]]).
* ''Film/WeeWillieWinkie'' was based on a Creator/RudyardKipling short story in which the protagonist was a little boy. When the story was adapted for the screen, it became a Creator/ShirleyTemple vehicle, and the main character became a girl.
* In the original novel version of ''Film/WintersBone'', protagonist Ree had two younger brothers. In the film version, one of them is a girl.
* In BMovie series ''Witchcraft'' (possibly best known from Creator/AllisonPregler's reviews) a police officer named Lutz first appears as a man in the sixth film and is suddenly a woman in the seventh, with no explanation. The thirteenth and final film, in its valiant attempts to close all the series' {{Plot Hole}}s, {{Ret Con}}ned the two Lutzes into siblings.
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