History Main / TheRemake

[[caption-width-right:299:Contractual hijinx, [[Film/ANightAtTheOpera 1935]] (top) and [[Film/BrainDonors 1992]] (bottom)]]

* ''Film/BrainDonors'' is a modern remake ''nee'' retelling of Creator/TheMarxBrothers ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' -- the names and details have changed, but the broad strokes and RapidFireComedy remain intact.

* Non [=TV/Movie=] example: The [[Toys/NerfBrand NERF N-Strike elite series]] is mostly made of remakes of previous blasters. Compare the [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Firestrike_(N-Strike_Elite) Firestrike]] to the [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Nite_Finder_EX-3 Nite Finder,]] or the [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Strongarm_(N-Strike_Elite) Strongarm]] to the [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Maverick_REV-6 Maverick.]]
* For the CD release of ''Music/PacManFever,'' Buckner and Garcia were not allowed to access their original recordings from 1982, and Sony Music refused to release the original album on CD. Therefore, the band had to redo all of the songs with modern sound-alike recordings. With the remake of "Mousetrap", the band had to make use of StockSoundEffects of a cat, mouse, dog, and bird since there wasn't a functioning ''VideoGame/MouseTrap1981'' arcade game machine around at the time of the recording.

* ''[[WebAnimation/{{TOME}} TVTome Adventures]]'', which ran from 2004-2007 on Website/{{Newgrounds}} and [=Fireball20xl=], got a remake in 2011 called ''TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise''.

* ''Shall We Dance'', the 2004 American remake of the 1996 Japanese movie. Neither is related to the 1937 movie musical of the same title.

* ''Manga/{{Dogsred}}'' is a pretty rare example of a remake of a manga. In this case, the manga is a remake of its author's first publication, 'Supinamarada'', remade about a decade later, after the author got a lot of recognition for his work on ''Manga/GoldenKamuy''.

* The 2007 version of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', along with its [[JustForPun Squeakquel]], and Chipwrecked, and The Road Chip.

* Gus Van Sant's ''Psycho'' was, save for a gratuitous scene of Mister Bates... misterbating ([[JustForPun sorry]]), and a couple scattered lines of dialogue, a shot-for-shot remake of the Hitchcock original.

* The David Fincher remake of ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' had a habit of remaking older shorts (most of which were black-and-white cartoons that couldn’t be rereleased under the Blue Ribbon program):
** 1944’s ''Tick Tock Tuckered'' was a color remake of 1937’s ''WesternAnimation/PorkysBadtimeStory'', with the only significant difference being that Daffy Duck takes Gabby Goat’s place.
** 1938’s ''WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland'' was remade in color as ''Dough for the Do Do” in 1949 by Creator/FrizFreleng (who left himself uncredited because it was a remake, and he didn’t want to be seen as stealing Creator/BobClampett’s ideas).

** 1941’s ''Notes to You'' was remade in 1948 as ''Back Alley Oproar'', but with Porky and the unnamed cat being replaced by Elmer and Sylvester.

* ''Film/{{Flubber}}'' was a remake of a 1961 film called ''The Absent-Minded Professor''.