List of modernized adaptations of old works
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Sometimes, an author will write a story that is consciously based on an older story (typically in the public domain) but with a modernized setting and characters. Sometimes the original work is still copyrighted, but the writer includes the minimum quota of differences to avoid being a direct plagiarism while using an immediately recognizable story template.
Film[edit]
- 10 Things I Hate About You – William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew set in a Seattle suburbia[1]
- 20th Century Oz - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz set in the surfing and motorcyclist cultures of Australia in the 1970s
- Ad Astra - Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now in outer space[2]
- Affluenza - The Great Gatsby in 2008 Long Island[3]
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - self-referential version of The Adventures of Pinocchio set in a post-apocalyptic North America[4]
- Aisha - Jane Austen's novel Emma in modern India[5][6]
- Alien From L.A. - very loosely inspired by Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Apocalypse Now – Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness set in 1969 during the Vietnam War[7]
- August Rush - loosely based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist[8]
- Bangaru Papa - Silas Marner set in India
- Beastly - Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's "Beauty and the Beast"
- Bedazzled and its remake - the Faust legend[9]
- Big Business - A Comedy of Errors with gender reversal
- Black Swan - self-referential reimagining of Swan Lake partly influenced by The Double and Perfect Blue
- Blackenstein - An African-American version of Frankenstein.
- Bride and Prejudice – Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, set in modern India[10]
- Bridget Jones's Diary - Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice set in modern England[11]
- Broken Lance - King Lear
- The Castle of Cagliostro - the Arsene Lupin character, represented here by a supposed grandson
- Castle in the Sky - steampunk cartoon loosely based on the Laputa subplot from Gulliver's Travels
- A Cinderella Story – Cinderella in modern Los Angeles
- Carmen Jones – Prosper Mérimée's 1845 novella Carmen set in 1940s North Carolina
- Clueless – Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma in modern Los Angeles[1]
- Company of Wolves – Little Red Riding Hood
- Coriolanus – Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern times, using the original dialogue
- Cosi - self-referential version of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte set in Melbourne, Australia
- Crime and Punishment in Suburbia – Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment set in a suburban high school.
- Cruel Intentions – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' novel Les Liaisons dangereuses set in a New York City prep school[1]
- The Cutting Edge - Olympic pairs figure skating movie with elements of The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing
- Cymbeline - Shakespeare's play about Britain at the time of Caesar Augustus, set in modern American gangland
- Deliver Us From Eva - loosely linked to The Taming of the Shrew
- Die, Mommie, Die! – based on the Greek tragedy Electra by Sophocles[12][13]
- Le Divorce - Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady
- Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde with an African-American protagonist
- Dr. Dolittle and its sequels - Doctor John Dolittle, originally written as a white man who espoused the questionable racial views of British colonialism, is reimagined as a modern African-American. Virtually the only plot element in common with the traditional version of the character is his ability to communicate with animals.
- Don Jon - Don Juan legends
- Don Juan DeMarco - Don Juan legends
- Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman - the Don Juan legend with gender reversal
- Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island - Treasure Island (novel)
- The Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novel of the same name, set in the 1950s
- Downsizing - The Incredible Shrinking Man
- Dracula the 1931 film was based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
- Dracula's Daughter was based on the short story Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker.[14]
- Dracula 2000 – Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde – a parody of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, set in modern New York City.
- Easy A – a self-referential adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter set in a modern California high school[1]
- Edward II (film) - the play with Christopher Marlowe's text but in a 1990s setting
- Ella Enchanted - "Cinderella" set in a world full of mythological creatures, talking animals, and a bit of steampunk
- Enchanted (2007 film) - Snow White and Cinderella, among other fairy tales, set in modern New York via time travel and inter-dimensional travel
- Ever After – Cinderella in Renaissance France
- The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead (2013 film) - spoof, amalgamating H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon series and (in the third movie only) Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
- Eyes Wide Shut - Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle set in modern Manhattan
- The Fisher King - loosely and self-referentially based on a tale from Arthurian legend
- A Fistful of Dollars - Red Harvest by way of Yojimbo, set on the US-Mexican border in the late 19th century.
- Forbidden Planet – William Shakespeare's The Tempest set on the planet Altair IV in the 23rd century.[15]
- Frankenhooker - Frankenstein
- Frankenstein (1931 film) - the 18th century setting of Frankenstein (novel) was abandoned by Universal Pictures to save money, and plenty of then-modern props appear throughout this film and its sequels
- Frankenweenie and its remake - Frankenstein where the "monster" is a pet dog
- Freaky Friday - Vice Versa (novel) but with its genders reversed.
- Freeway – Modernized Little Red Riding Hood with the pun referring to "'hood," a low-income urban neighborhood.
- From Prada to Nada – Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility set in modern Los Angeles.[16]
- G (2002 film) - The Great Gatsby with African-American main characters
- Get Over It - William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in a modern high school[1]
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - A Christmas Carol. Although this story is frequently adapted to modern times, this adaptation is unusual for completely eliminating Christmas from the plot.
- Gnomeo and Juliet – a self-referential adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet wherein the main characters are enlivened statues in two adjacent garden displays in modern England
- The Good Girl - The Sorrows of Young Werther and Madame Bovary, according to statements by screenwriter Mike White.
- A Good Woman - Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan set in the 1930s
- Great Expectations (1998 film) – Charles Dickens' same-titled 19th century novel set in New York City at the close of the 20th century
- The Great Mouse Detective - Sherlock Holmes as an animal fable
- Gulliver's Travels (2010 film) - the classic fable by Jonathan Swift. Instead of an 18th-century English doctor, Gulliver is now a 21st-century New York postal clerk who loves pop cultural fantasy and make believe; after getting lost among the Lilliputians he creates for them a religion based on himself by acting out the Star Wars movie saga which he tells them is the story of his own life.
- The Guns of Navarone – The Seven Samurai set in the Dodecanese during World War II.
- Hamlet (1996 film) - Shakespeare's Hamlet set in the Victorian era
- Hamlet (2000 film) – William Shakespeare's Hamlet set in modern New York City[17]
- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - Hansel and Gretel set in a quasi-steampunk world with clever anachronisms
- Happy, Texas - broadly based on "The Emperor's New Clothes"
- Henry V (1989 film) - This adaptation of the play cleaves to a medieval setting, except for a man called Chorus who wears a modern suit of clothes and regularly invades the scenery to make fourth wall-breaking speeches. A brief frame story at the very beginning and end of the film, shows Chorus living in a modern sound stage set.
- Hoi Polloi (1935 film) - Shaw's Pygmalion with The Three Stooges taking the place of Eliza Doolittle
- Hollow Man (film) - H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (franchise) – The Incredible Shrinking Man
- Hoodwinked - Little Red Riding Hood by way of Rashomon
- Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil - Hansel and Gretel, among other fairy tales
- Hook - Peter Pan by way of Young Frankenstein
- The Hours (film) – self-referential adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- House of Strangers - King Lear
- I Was A Teenage Frankenstein – loosely based on Frankenstein
- I Was A Teenage Werewolf – loosely based on The Wolf Man (1941 film)
- Igor - Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein and its previous film history are spoofed
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman - The Incredible Shrinking Man but with gender reversal
- Joe MacBeth - retelling of William Shakespeare's Macbeth as a crime drama set during the 1930s
- Journey to the Center of the Earth & Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - Self-referential pastiches of Jules Verne novels, with a secret history as backstory.
- Just One of the Guys - Twelfth Night
- Kandukondain Kandukondain – Tamil adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility[18]
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The Kid Who Would Be King - self-referential King Arthur adaptation set in 21st-century London suburbia
- King of California - loosely based on Don Quixote
- King Kong (1976 film) – updated version of the 1933 film
- Kiss Me, Kate (film) - self-referential adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
- A Knight's Tale - loosely based on elements of The Canterbury Tales with humorous anachronisms included
- Last Man Standing - Red Harvest and/or Yojimbo
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (film) - an 18th-century novel is reassigned to 1959
- The Libertine - based on the life and writings of scandalous poet Earl John Wilmot of Rochester. A frame story has the character of Wilmot breaking the fourth wall and making deliberately anachronistic references.
- The Lion King – William Shakespeare's Hamlet as an animal fable.[15]
- Love at First Bite - Dracula (novel) set in 1970s New York
- Love's Labour's Lost (2000 film) - Love's Labours Lost set in 1939, with the characters singing popular 1930s songs
- The Magic Flute (2006 film) - based on the opera of the same name, set in World War I
- The Magnificent Seven – The Seven Samurai in the old west
- The Manchurian Candidate and its remake - a key subplot self-referentially adapts the House of Atreus legend
- Mars Attacks! - H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
- Matilda – Roald Dahl's novel but updated and Americanized.
- Material Girls - Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility set in modern Los Angeles.[19]
- Men of Respect – William Shakespeare's Macbeth recast as a Mafia power struggle in 1990
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film) – a William Shakespeare play set around 1900
- A Midsummer Night's Rave – William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in the rave scene[17]
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993) - adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name
- Much Ado About Nothing (2012) - adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name[20]
- The Muppet Christmas Carol - A Christmas Carol with anachronisms and breaking the fourth wall
- Muppet Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island with anachronisms and breaking the fourth wall
- The Musketeer - loosely based on The Three Musketeers with anachronistic martial arts scenes
- My Kingdom (film) - King Lear
- My Own Private Idaho – one subplot is based on the Falstaff subplots from William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V; another is inspired by George Eliot's Silas Marner[17][15]
- The Nutty Professor and its remake - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- O (film) – William Shakespeare's Othello set in a modern private high school[1]
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Homer's Odyssey in 1930s Mississippi
- Oliver & Company - Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist as an animal fable
- Orfeu - the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in Brazil
- Penelope (2006 film) - "Beauty and the Beast" with gender reversal, and/or "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
- Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge - The Phantom of the Opera
- The Phantom of the Opera (1989 film) - the French tale set in 1980s New York City
- Phantom of the Paradise - The Phantom of the Opera
- Ponyo - "The Little Mermaid" set in 21st-century Japan
- Pretty Woman – Shaw's Pygmalion set in modern Los Angeles, also with self-references to Cinderella[1]
- Rags (2012 film) – Cinderella with gender inversion in New York
- Ran (1985 film) - King Lear in medieval Japan[15]
- Red Riding Hood (2011 film) - the Little Red Riding Hood legend, set in a generic medieval country where the characters exhibit mildly anachronistic attitudes and mannerisms.
- Rent (film) - self-referential La Boheme set in 1990s New York
- Richard III (1995 film) - an abridgment of the play's original text, set in the 1930s under a hypothetical Fascist Britain
- Robin Hood – an animal fable of Robin Hood.
- Romeo and Juliet (1996 movie) – the Shakespeare play set in 1990s Florida[17]
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film) - a subplot of Hamlet set in Elizabethan times but with interludes of steampunk and breaking the fourth wall.
- Roxanne – Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
- Scarface (1983 film) - based on an older film which was in turn loosely based on the historical career of Al Capone
- Scotland, PA – William Shakespeare's Macbeth set in a fast food restaurant in Scotland, Pennsylvania in the 1970s
- Scrooged – self-referential spoof of A Christmas Carol in 1980s Manhattan.
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - self-referential spoof of the Rape of the Sabine Women, set in Oregon Territory in 1850
- She's All That – Shaw's Pygmalion set in a modern high school[1]
- She's the Man – William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will set in modern Californian suburbia[1]
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon - Sherlock Holmes fights in World War II.
- A Simple Twist of Fate – George Eliot's novel Silas Marner
- Sita Sings the Blues – Self-referential feminist retelling of the Indian epic Ramayana, interspersing ancient and modern settings
- Spike (2008 film) – Cupid and Psyche, Hades and Persephone, and/or Beauty and the Beast
- Start the Revolution Without Me - mash-up which spoofs A Tale of Two Cities, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask
- Sydney White – Snow White set in a modern university
- Tamara Drewe - Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
- Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde - the history of Bonnie and Clyde
- Tempest – William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- A Thousand Acres - King Lear
- Throne of Blood – Macbeth in feudal Japan.[15]
- Time After Time (1979 film) - self-referential adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine combined with Jack the Ripper legends
- Titus (film) - Titus Andronicus with 20th century weaponry
- Trading Places - The Prince and the Pauper merges with Shaw's Pygmalion in 1980s New York
- Treasure Planet - Treasure Island as a steampunk space opera
- Trishna – Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The Triumph of Love - Marivaux's play, with brief interludes of steampunk and breaking the fourth wall
- Tromeo and Juliet – A punk rock context of Romeo and Juliet
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs – Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac set in modern Los Angeles[21]
- Twelfth Night (1996 film) - a Shakespeare play with a Victorian setting
- Virgin Territory - stories from Giovanni Bocaccio's Decameron with humorous anachronisms of speech and custom
- War of the Worlds, the 1953 and 2005 adaptations - H.G. Wells' 19th-century English novel, Americanized and reset to the 20th and/or 21st centuries.
- Warm Bodies (film) – William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet where Romeo is a zombie[17]
- West Side Story (1961 film) – William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet[17]
- Whatever It Takes – Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac set in a modern high school[1]
- What Maisie Knew (film) - modern adaptation of Henry James' 1897 novel What Maisie Knew[20]
- Where the Heart Is (1990 film) - King Lear
- The Wiz (film) - retelling of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with the Kansas subplot relocated to 1970s Harlem
- Yellow Sky - retelling of William Shakespeare's The Tempest as a western movie
- Young Frankenstein - self-referential spoof of Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein, primarily based on previous film adaptations of that novel
Television and TV-movies[edit]
- Akumaizer 3 - Tokusatsu version of The Three Musketeers.
- Ash vs. Evil Dead - self-referential spoof of H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon series, among other influences
- Beauty and the Beast series and its reboot - Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's "Beauty and the Beast" by way of Batman
- Carmen: A Hip Hopera – Carmen by Prosper Merimee & Georges Bizet
- Case Closed (manga) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, set in modern Japan.
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street - the Bert and Ernie subplot is based on O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002) - film, based on a novel, places Cinderella in Baroque Holland
- Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance – a live action series based on a manga adapting Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, set in Iwate, Japan.[22]
- Darkwing Duck – parody of comic book characters by way of Young Frankenstein.
- A Diva's Christmas Carol - A Christmas Carol
- Descendants (2015 film) - mash-up spoof of various fairy tales including Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty by way of Young Frankenstein
- Don Quixote (2000 film) - This adaptation mostly keeps the original circa-1605 setting, but has one scene set in the late 19th century as a joke.
- Dragon Ball Z – Journey to the West with guns, tanks, and other modern props
- Ducktales – Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge by way of Indiana Jones and other film franchises.
- Elementary (TV series) – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, set in modern New York City.
- Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (TV Program) - O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" as an animal fable
- Empire (2015 TV series) - A Hip-hop retelling of The Lion in Winter and William Shakespeare's King Lear
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spinoff Xena: Warrior Princess - frequently humorous retellings of Greek mythology, primarily the Hercules stories as the title suggests, with many deliberate anachronisms in the dialogue and general views of the characters
- Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story - "Jack and the Beanstalk" by way of Rashomon and Young Frankenstein
- King of Texas - King Lear set in Texas in the early 1840s
- Kumkum Bhagya – Hindi TV serial adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility[23]
- Lost in Space - certain episodes are space opera adaptations of the Odyssey, The Niebelunglied, Treasure Island, Mutiny on the Bounty, and other plots, sometimes self-referential
- Lupin III - the Arsene Lupin character, represented here by a supposed grandson
- Maze (novel) - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Dungeons and Dragons
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol - animated version of A Christmas Carol presented as a play-within-a-play
- Mockingbird Lane – a 2012 television special developed as a re-imagining of the 1960s The Munsters.
- The Monkees - certain episodes are spoofs (often self-referential) of The Prince and the Pauper, The Most Dangerous Game, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Of Mice and Men, Mandrake the Magician, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Monkey's Paw, and other sources
- Motocrossed - Twelfth Night
- The Muppets' Wizard of Oz - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz set in modern times, with Dorothy and her family recast as African Americans.
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold - loosely based on Scott O'Dell's The King's Fifth
- Othello (2001 TV film) - Othello is a police commander in modern England
- Ouran High School Host Club – William Shakespeare's As You Like It
- Phantom of the Megaplex - The Phantom of the Opera
- Revenge (TV series) - loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
- Saraswatichandra (TV series) (2013–14) - modern day adaptation of Saraswatichandra (novel) (1887-1902) which is set in feudal India.
- Selfie (TV series) - loosely based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Sherlock (TV series) – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, updated to the 2010s
- The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow - Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" starring the Smurfs
- Ulysses 31 – loosely based on Homer's Odyssey
- Uncle Buck (2016 TV series) – Based on the 1989 film but this version has African-American main characters.
- What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! (1978) - Call of the Wild with Snoopy in place of Buck.
- Wuthering High School (2015) - Wuthering Heights[24]
Web series[edit]
- Carmilla - based on Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
- Emma Approved – Jane Austen's Emma[25]
- The Lizzie Bennet Diaries – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice[25]
Literature[edit]
- A True Novel by Minae Mizumura - Wuthering Heights set in mid-20th-century Japan
- Ana of California by Andi Teran - Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
- Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty - "Androcles and the Lion" in a 1930s American small town
- Beauty and the Beast - 17th-century tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve is a retelling of the Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche
- Brazil (novel) by John Updike - Tristan and Isolde set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro
- "Born with the Dead" by Robert Silverberg – the myth of Orpheus relocated to near-future Zanzibar
- Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James - sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice[26]
- Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear - modern sequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
- Le Divorce by Diane Johnson - self-referential adaptation of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady
- Dorian, an Imitation by Will Self – Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Eligible (novel) by Curtis Sittenfeld - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Emma (novel) by Alexander McCall Smith - Jane Austen's Emma
- Fanny (novel) by Erica Jong - John Cleland's Fanny Hill
- Foe (novel) by J. M. Coetzee - Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - self-referential take on Dracula by way of Indiana Jones
- Joseph Andrews (novel) by Henry Fielding - Cervantes' Don Quixote
- Katy by Jacqueline Wilson - Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did set in the 2010s.
- Lady Macbeth's Daughter by Lisa Klein – William Shakespeare's Macbeth
- A Midsummer Night's Steampunk by Scott E. Tarbet - William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a Steampunk retelling brought forward to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
- New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms by Matthew Hodgart - sequel to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Night's Daughter by Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Magic Flute
- Ophelia by Lisa Klein – William Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Peter and the Starcatchers and sequels by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson - Peter Pan and supporting characters, reassigned to a historical context with an undercurrent of secret history.
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with zombies.[27]
- Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters - Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, with sea monsters[28]
- The Sotweed Factor by John Barth - Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski – William Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Tam Lin (novel) by Pamela Dean – the Scottish folk tale relocated to a college in early 1970s Minnesota
- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis - Cupid and Psyche
- Ulysses (novel) by James Joyce - The Odyssey reenacted in Dublin, Ireland on 16 June 1904
Theatre[edit]
- All Shook Up - Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- The Bomb-itty of Errors - A Comedy of Errors as a hip-hop musical
- The Boys from Syracuse - Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - humorous mash-up purporting to include at least one element of every play William Shakespeare wrote
- Damn Yankees – the Faust legend
- Godspell - the New Testament retold with deliberate anachronisms which serve both humorous and allegorical purposes
- Hadestown - folk musical of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in a Great Depression-inspired post-apocalyptic setting
- I Love You Because - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- Into the Woods - musical mash-up of fairy-tales including those from The Brothers Grimm.
- Jesus Christ Superstar - the New Testament retold with deliberate anachronisms for both humor and allegory
- Kiss Me, Kate - self-referential adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
- Mourning Becomes Electra - the House of Atreus story relocated to New England in 1865
- Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 - based on War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Republic - based on Henry IV by William Shakespeare
- The Rocky Horror Show - musical spoof of Frankenstein, primarily the 1931 film adaptation rather than the novel itself
- Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead - Hamlet retold from different perspectives, with minimal fourth wall breaking.
- Rent – La Boheme
- Twist - Oliver Twist
- West Side Story – William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- The Wiz - retelling of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with the Kansas subplot relocated to 1970s Harlem
References[edit]
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To be more specific, Gray and his co-writer and long-time friend Ethan Gross are drawing from Heart Of Darkness, the Joseph Conrad novella that inspired Francis Ford Coppola’s film, with its solitary hero embarking on a long and perilous journey to find a madman living in isolation.
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Sheri Linden (2014-07-17). "Review: 'Affluenza' tries for 'Great Gatsby,' comes up shortchanged". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
'Affluenza,' director Kevin Asch’s look at excess in Great Neck, N.Y., abounds in the usual drugs, booze, sex and angst. As witnessed and experienced by a middle-class protagonist — the requisite sensitive artist — the moneyed setting is convincing. But 'The Great Gatsby' Lite screenplay by Antonio Macia hasn’t the sharpness of satire or the momentousness of an American tragedy, veering instead toward middling melodrama.
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Calum Marsh (2020-03-30). "Westworld: The Absence of Field - Review". IGN. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
In Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the Pinocchio-esque quest of a child robot to become a real boy hinges on one thing: the love he feels for his mother.
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Trish Gupta. "Emma, Aisha and the sting in the tale: What Austen says about us". Sunday Guardian. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
In 2010, a filmmaker called Rajshree Ojha released a Hindi adaptation of Emma, called Aisha. Set in contemporary Delhi high society and starring Sonam Kapur as the Emma-inspired heroine, Aisha was greeted by many Indian critics—and by most of my friends and facebook acquaintances—with unmitigated disdain.
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Ian Crouch (2010-07-30). "The New "Emma": Clueless in Bollywood". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
In this spirit, 'Aisha,' the new Bollywood adaptation of 'Emma,' should be viewed with a bit of patience. The novel has been filmed several times in the past fifteen years: Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Beckinsale, and Alicia Silverstone have each played the role of Miss Woodhouse—well, in Silverstone’s case, it was as Cher Horowitz, a Jeep-driving, Paul Rudd-loving Southern California version of the classic heroine, in Amy Heckerling’s 'Clueless.'
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It’s a modern retelling of the Faust legend, where every one of Moon’s wishes is given a terribly ironic twist that frustrates any chance at happiness he may have.
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Shweta Patokar (2020-03-06). "Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Female Centric Films That Are A Must-watch; See The List". Republic World. Mumbai. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
Bride and Prejudice is the modern adaptation of the popular Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice.
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Megan Elliott (2020-03-06). "The Best Jane Austen Adaptations You Can Stream on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime". Showbiz Cheat Sheet. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
The 2005 version of P&P with Keira Knightly as Elizabeth and Matthew Macfadyen as Darcy is available on Hulu with the Starz add-on. There’s also a 1980 television adaption on Amazon Prime, as well as a 2003 film that shifts the story into the present day (it’s on Amazon Prime and Tubi). Firth also stars alongside Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones’s Diary, which was loosely based on Austen’s book. It’s on Hulu.
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Mike Hale (2011-01-28). "Jane Austen, Transmigrated To Modern-Day East L.A." The New York Times. p. C8. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
'From Prada to Nada,' a rueful, occasionally touching and entirely predictable romantic comedy with a terrible title, recasts Jane Austen’s 'Sense and Sensibility' as a contemporary story of Chicana empowerment.
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Aishwarya Rai (2020-03-23). "Tabu' Popular Tamil Movies That Must Be On The Binge-list Of Every Fan". Republic World. Mumbai. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
Directed by Rajiv Menon, this romantic drama flick was inspired by Jane Austen's popular novel Sense and Sensibility.
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Billy Niles (2020-01-12). "Lizzie McGuire and More: Relive Hilary Duff's Most Memorable Roles Over the Years". E! Online. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
In 2006, Duff co-starred opposite her older sister Haylie Duff in this film loosely based on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as two rich and spoiled Hollywood socialiate sisters, heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, who given the ultimate wake-up call when a scandal involving the company's night cream strips them of their wealth.
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Akanksha Ghotkar (2020-03-22). "Kahiin To Hoga & Other Hindi TV Series That Were Based On Popular Novels". Republic World. Mumbai. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
Ekta Kapoor's creation Kumkum Bhagya is the story that is reportedly based on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
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Caitlin Gallagher (2015-03-14). "Lifetime's 'Wuthering High School' vs. 'Wuthering Heights:' How Faithful Is This Adaptation Of Emily Bronte's Classic?". Bustle magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
Wuthering Heights was one of those books that people were obligated to read in high school, so it's only fitting that Lifetime took the plot to a literal high school with its new original movie Wuthering High School.
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Emily Jones (2020-03-16). "A Stress-Free Streaming Guide For Coronavirus Isolation". Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
For Austen fans, there’s also Death Comes to Pemberley (Passport), the miniseries adaptation of P.D. James’s Pride and Prejudice sequel. Spoiler alert: Wickham is still a scoundrel.
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Gill South (2020-03-21). "In The Other Bennet Sister, Mary gets a 19th-century makeover". Noted magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
For those of us who like to regularly reread Pride and Prejudice and have faithfully watched every single good and bad interpretation of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, including Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, reading Janice Hadlow’s The Other Bennet Sister is a no-brainer.
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Devoncey Looser (2020-03-06). "Five myths about Jane Austen: Her books were actually racy — and not ignored in her lifetime". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2020-03-07. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
Works of JAFF (Jane Austen fan fiction) — or Austenesque fiction, as some call it — have exploded in the past decade, and not just ones that involve zombies. From “Spank Me, Mr. Darcy” (2013) to “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” (2009) to “Emma, Mr. Knightley, and Chili-slaw Dogs” (2013), there seems to be an Austen-inspired story to suit every taste.
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