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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.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Clueless and 8 Other Top 1990s Movies Actually Based on Classic Literature. E Online. 4 November 2015
  2. Norman Wilner (2019-09-17). "Review: Ad Astra is a masterful interplanetary riff on Apocalypse Now". Now magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-02. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  3. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. 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.' Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. "United Artists plans re-release of 'Apocalypse Now'". The Gainesville Sun. August 26, 1987. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  8. Elizabeth Wietzmann (2008-06-03). "'August Rush' is an orphan tale offering a sugary twist on Charles Dickens". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2020-04-02. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. Jason Serafino (2013-08-23). "The 25 Best British Comedy Movies of All Time". Complex magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-02. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  11. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  12. Jones, Kenneth; Lefkowitz, David (August 12, 1999). "Die! Mommy! Die! Slays 'Em in L.A., Busch Parody Extends to Sept. 26". Playbill. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  13. Hofler, Robert (July 22, 1999). "Review: Die! Mommy! Die!". Variety. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  14. Jones, J. R. "Dracula's Daughter". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Barlow, Wil (December 2, 2015). "7 Ambitious Shakespeare Adaptations". IndieWire.
  16. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 Stubby the Rocket (March 27, 2018). "13 Shakespeare Adaptations Aimed at Teens". Tor.com.
  18. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  19. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  20. 20.0 20.1 Allen, Brooke (February 2014). "Adapting the Classic". The Hudson Review.
  21. "'The Truth About Cats & Dogs' (PG-13)". The Washington Post.
  22. Chavez, Ed. "Crime and Punishment". Otaku USA. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  23. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. 25.0 25.1 {{cite news | url = https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0624/1057230-pride-and-prejudice-and-social-media/ | title = Telling the story of Pride & Prejudice on social media | work = [[Radio Ireland | author = | date = 2019-06-24 | page = | location = | isbn = | language = | trans-title = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2020-04-02 | url-status = live | quote = The messages and the video were part of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, an updated adaptation of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice told through social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. }}
  26. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  27. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  28. 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. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)


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