Directors that direct their own remakes ?
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Directors that direct their own remakes ?
random question I suppose, but now that The Ring 2 is being directed by Hideo Nakata (Director of Ringu/Ringu2) and The Grude (Ju-on) is being directed by Takashi Shimizu (Director of Ju-On, Ju-on: The Grudge, etc; ), am curious what the track record with foreign directors remaking their own films in English have been (or another, second language).
Any ideas? I actually don't know of a single example... Closest being El Mariachi -> Desperado, but even that wasn't really a remake.
Any ideas? I actually don't know of a single example... Closest being El Mariachi -> Desperado, but even that wasn't really a remake.
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Originally posted by Geofferson
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) 1988 was remade for American audiences in 1993. George Sluizer directed both.
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) 1988 was remade for American audiences in 1993. George Sluizer directed both.
And btw, stay far, far, far away from the American remake. They "Americanized" it, completely changing the dark, disturbing ending, and tacking on a "everyone lives happily ever after" ending. It totally destroys everything that was great about the original.
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Originally posted by Geofferson
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) 1988 was remade for American audiences in 1993. George Sluizer directed both.
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) 1988 was remade for American audiences in 1993. George Sluizer directed both.
I don't get the changes made to Vanishing though, studio intervention or did the Sluizer just feel the need to make a few changes? Was unaware he did both (saw both years ago though)
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Ole Bornedal directed both Nattevagten and the English remake Nightwatch a few years later.
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Alfred Hitchcock remade his own The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Howard Hawks made two loose remakes of his own Rio Bravo: El Dorado and Rio Lobo.
John Carpenter remade Rio Bravo as Assault on Precinct 13, and then remade his own movie as Ghosts of Mars
Howard Hawks made two loose remakes of his own Rio Bravo: El Dorado and Rio Lobo.
John Carpenter remade Rio Bravo as Assault on Precinct 13, and then remade his own movie as Ghosts of Mars
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George Lucas made THX1138 twice, the first time as a student film. Same with Wes Anderson and Bottle Rocket. At least, I think the first time it was a student film.
I know these aren't exactly what you meant with this thread, but there are probably very few examples of what you were asking for.
I know these aren't exactly what you meant with this thread, but there are probably very few examples of what you were asking for.
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Roger Vadim did both versions of And God created Woman.
Todd Browning remade London after midnight as Mark of the Vampire.
Todd Browning remade London after midnight as Mark of the Vampire.
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Frank Capra remade Lady for a Day as Pocketful of Miracles.
BTW, I don't agree with the comparisons between Desperado/El Mariachi, and before anyone mentions them, Evil Dead 1/2 and Escape from New York/Escape from LA. There's a difference between a sequel that copies parts of the original and a remake. These were all sequels.
BTW, I don't agree with the comparisons between Desperado/El Mariachi, and before anyone mentions them, Evil Dead 1/2 and Escape from New York/Escape from LA. There's a difference between a sequel that copies parts of the original and a remake. These were all sequels.
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Originally posted by QuiGonJosh
Whatever...Desperado and EM are the same film...
Whatever...Desperado and EM are the same film...
We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie.
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I don't know for purchase, but the short film Bottle Rocket can be downloaded from here in low-quality RealMedia form:
http://wilson-brothers.com/luke/mult...vie-clips.html
http://wilson-brothers.com/luke/mult...vie-clips.html
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Evil Dead I and II...