Brit remakes of American films

[JimW]

Dog Day Afternoon set in a building society in Penge, but then it all falls apart in the final act as they realise they can get the op free on the NHS anyway.

 

[Reno]

Titanic panto style: Su Pollard as Rose, Julian Clary as Jack, Lily Savage as Rose's mum, Les Dawson as Molly Brown and Anne Widecombe as Old Rose.

 

[laptop]

Easy Rider - an epic 1970s journey on Choppers to Milton Keynes*

Zabriskie Point opening in an LSE seminar room, moving on to Hampstead Heath and the Clockwork Orange house, starring John Noakes and Valerie Singleton


* I like this better than my contribution seven years ago..

 

[laptop]

Some Like it Hot with Eddie Izzard and Paul O'Grady (ooooh... © 2005 me)

i know i'm 7 years late, but they done this already except with robbie coltrane & eric idle...

I don't think Nuns on the Run counts as Some Like it Hot?

 

[killer b]

of course it does.

 

[Reno]

Then Sister Act is a US remake of Nuns on the Run.

 

[Balbi]

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner starring the Trueman family from Eastenders and Nick Griffin.

 

[Balbi]

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane with Katie Price and Jodie Marsh.

 

[Balbi]

Weston Super Mare Side Story featuring all of the extras from Straw Dogs.

 

[Balbi]

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Rebekah Wade and Ross Kemp.

 

[Scaggs]

Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr in Fight Club

 

[DaveCinzano]

Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr in Fight Club

And who imagines whom?

 

[killer b]

Then Sister Act is a US remake of Nuns on the Run.

that too.

 

[Balham]

Huston We Have A Problem remade as Euston We Have A Problem, the boring story of a Manchester to Euston train that hits a problem at Watford, starring . . . . . . Dermot Morgan as the train driver, Ardal O'Hanlon as the guard and Frank Kelly as a signalman (all from Father Ted).

 

[DotCommunist]

Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr in Fight Club

get helenah bonahm carters role be taken by JLC's ex missis?

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Okay then, how about 'the Planned Economy Poppins'?

Well, yes, for some time the Nanny State had been trying to deal with the problem of economic stagnation.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Well, yes, for some time the Nanny State had been trying to deal with the problem of economic stagnation.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Soviet-era popular culture would be my Mastermind specialist subject. Or an unviable Stalinist/Maoist regime in Southeast Asia.

 

[DaveCinzano]

умник

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Da.

 

[pogofish]

Of course, when it comes to tv, there are a whole load of brit remakes of US shows. Most of which are crappier versions of crap originals.

 

[Idris2002]

Soviet-era popular culture would be my Mastermind specialist subject. Or an unviable Stalinist/Maoist regime in Southeast Asia.

Reds, starring Captain Hurrah as Warren Beatty, and Laurie Penny as the woman he loves.

 

[Random]

Of course, when it comes to tv, there are a whole load of brit remakes of US shows. Most of which are crappier versions of crap originals.

The Upper Hand

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Red Dawn with the cast of Two Pints of Lager hiding out in the Lake District

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Reds, starring Captain Hurrah as Warren Beatty, and Laurie Penny as the woman he loves.

Fuck off!

 

[Reno]

As for actual British remakes of US films, many of the early the Hammer horror films were remakes of the Universal horror films from the 30s.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Fuck off!

I could practically see you rubbing your thighs on that thread when she turned up

 

[Idris2002]

Fuck off!

The Motorcycle Diaries - UK version.

Giles and Tarquin go on a gap year tour of South America. On returning to the mother country and going up to Oxbridge, they become pillars of the local SWSS.

 

[Idris2002]

As for actual British remakes of US films, many of the early the Hammer horror films were remakes of the Universal horror films from the 30s.

The source material for all of them would have been the likes of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, though, surely?

 

[Pingu]

U- 571 with HMS Bulldog and U - 110 for added historical accuracy. Julian Clary to star as the salty sea captain and michael shumacher as the U boat Captain