15 Movies and Shows You Might Not Know Are Remakes
![15 Movies and Shows You Might Not Know Are Remakes](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/3/790093_320x180.jpg)
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Remakes, reboots, revivals… Is originality fully gone from Hollywood these days? Why can't they make original movies like they used to, like, for example, uh…? Wait, what do you mean that's a remake? And how about…? That's a remake too? Are there no original movies at all? Well, yeah, we guess someone had to make the movies that were to be remade later. Still, it's surprising how many of our favorite films and shows were done before.
![True Lies is a remake of the French comedy La Totale! with the action (and the lead actor) beefed up. (And there's talk in 2021 of remaking it yet again.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/9/790089.jpg)
Sources: We Live Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter
![Meet the Parents is a remake of an indie comedy. The 1992 original was shot for $30,00 hardly enough to afford either Robert De Niro or Ben Stiller.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/3/790083.jpg)
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio
![The Thing is John Carpenter's take on 1951's The Thing From Another World. Carpenter's movie isn't just gorier - it's also closer to the original novella by John W. Campbell.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/2/790092.jpg)
![The Sound of Music was the third film about the Von Trapp family. Two movies convent were made in Germany in the 1950s, all based on the same book as the play that was then turned into the classic Julie Andrews musical.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/1/790081.jpg)
Source: Prologue Magazine
![The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels played by Steve Martin and Michael Caine were portrayed in 1964 by Marlon Brando and David Niven. The original was called Bedtime Story.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/9/790079.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Ocean's Eleven starred Frank Sinatra in 1960. Sinatra's Danny Ocean was joined by the entire Rat Pack-Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/2/790082.jpg)
Source: The A.V. Club
![Meet Joe Black is part of a string of adaptations and remakes. The movie is a version of 1934's Death Takes a Holiday, itself an adaptation of an Italian play (which is staged still today - as a musical).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/4/790084.jpg)
Sources: Turner Classic Movies, Charing Cross Theatre
![The Wizard Of Oz with Judy Garland is far from being the first Wizard of Oz movie. Frank L. Baum's book was among the earliest to be put on film. It had two different movie versions just in 1910.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/8/790078.jpg)
Source: Den of Geek
![Little Shop of Horrors was a (not musical) Roger Corman movie. The low budget horror comedy features Jack Nicholson in one of his first movie roles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/8/790088.jpg)
Source: Movies and Mania
![Bo and Luke Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard. were called Grady and Bobby Lee Hagg in 1975's Moonrunners. riter/director Gy Waldron changed the names and turned his own movie into a hit series.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/0/790080.jpg)
Sources: Dukes of Hazzard 01, Great RedNeck
![Gone in 60 Seconds was first made in 1974. The original is the work of H.B. Toby Halicki, a car-obsessed maverick with no previous moviemaking experience. He died while making a sequel in 1989.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/0/790090.jpg)
Source: DriveTribe
![The Good Doctor was originally a Korean drama. Producer Daniel Dae Kim optioned it thinking it could resonate with American audiences (and the series almost had an Asian lead).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/7/790087.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Three's Company is a show that could only be made in the '70s - but to make up for that, it was made twice. The American series is a remake of the British Man About the House. Even the spin-offs of both shows are similar.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/1/790091.jpg)
Source: Harsh Light News
![The Maltese Falcon became one of the greatest film noir movies - the third time it was made. Dashiell Hammet's novel was filmed in 1931 and 1936 (with different titles), before the definitive 1941 version starring Humphrey Bogart.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/5/790085.jpg)
Source: Mystery Scene
![The Departed was called Infernal Affairs when it was made in Hong Kong four years earlier. Martin Scorsese's movie has been called an example of how to do a remake right.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/6/790086.jpg)
Source: Film School Rejects