What is the most remade movie story?
The current movie industry seems to be engaged in an orgy of remakes to reduce the risk of funding completely new scripts. We have had a recent remake of Total Recall and are about to get a remake of Robocop. Sometimes the remakes happen very quickly (the Swedish movies Let the Right One In and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo were both remade in English very quickly).
Some of the scripts start as books (The Big Sleep, for example), some start as plays (The Front Page was originally a stage play but was remade as a movie several times, in 1931 and 1974 as The Front Page and in 1940 as His Girl Friday) and others as screenplays (Robocop seems to have started as a screenplay).
What is the most remade story?
NB For clarity let us exclude series where a character such as James Bond repeats and stick with those where the story credit references a single play, book or original script.
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It depends on how you define it, as you can look at something like Hitchock's Psycho, which was remade almost scene for scene and shot for shot, or adaptations of works. You can also limit it by Hollywood, Bollywood, German, etc.
The Great Gatsby has been made into a film seven different times in the US, but the overall record holder for a same name film is undoubtedly Romeo and Juliet. I believe the number of times that it has been made into a film a little more than 1300 times in various countries and languages. I don't believe this counts "knockoff" type films where the story is same/similar but the title is different.
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"A Christmas Carol" has been remade over 20 times. Beginning in 1901 with the silent film "Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost," Charles Dickens' tale of a man visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come has been reimagined with the Muppets, animation, and in musical form.What is the most successful movie remake?
All Time Worldwide Box Office for Remake MoviesRankReleasedMovie12019The Lion King22017Beauty and the Beast32019Aladdin42014Dawn of the Planet of the Apes67 more rowsWhat is the best remake of all time?
The 20 best movie remakes of all time- Ocean's Eleven (2001) ...
- Insomnia (2002) ...
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) ...
- 3:10 To Yuma (2007) ...
- True Grit (2011) ...
- The Jungle Book (2016) ...
- Pete's Dragon (2016) ...
- A Star Is Born (2018) We're cheating a bit here, as Bradley Cooper's take on the A Star Is Born story is the third remake.
What movie has the most different versions?
10 Great Movies That Have More Than Two Versions- Blade Runner (1982) Number of versions: 7. ...
- Apocalypse Now (1979) Number of versions: 3. ...
- The Exorcist (1973) Number of versions: 5. ...
- Touch of Evil (1958) Number of versions: 3. ...
- Metropolis (1927)
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Answer 2
My money is on Romeo and Juliet. But without proper in depth research, my money maybe ill-placed.
References:
- Wikipedia list of Romeo and Juliet Films
- Wikipedia: Romeo and Juliet on Screen ("...may be one of the most-screened plays of all time")
Answer 3
If we limit it to Hollywood, then one particular remake comes to mind...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) dir. Don Siegel which then was re-made as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) dir. Philip Kaufman which then was then re-made as The Body Snatchers (1993) dir. Abel Ferrara which was finally re-made as The Invasion (2007) dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel.
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