Tag: remakes

A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again | Television

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Olivia Colman and Shalom Brune-Franklin in Great Expectations.

Television needs to stop rolling out Charles Dickens adaptations – and this is coming from someone whose lockdown project was writing an Oliver Twist prequel about Nancy (binned after three chapters due to insufficient oom-pah-pah). […]

What’s next, Shrek starring the Rock? Hollywood’s addiction to live action remakes of animated classics | Movies

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The Fly (1986), directed by David Cronenberg, is a remake of a 1958 film of the same name.

What’s the record for the fastest remake? What is the least amount of time in which film studios have conspired to bring almost exactly the same movie back to the big screen? There was the […]