Its success led to numerous adaptations, including a stage play, radio broadcast, and a silent film. Despite the book’s historical inaccuracies and narrative problems, it became one of the best-selling books of all time. The book was written by a former Union General named Lew Wallace while he was serving as Governor of New Mexico in 1880. So let’s take a look at some films in which the filmmakers gambled that they could improve on someone else’s work.īen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a fictionalized account of a Jewish prince’s fall and rise, set during Jesus Christ’s mortal ministry in the land of Judah. In fact, some of the best movies I’ve ever seen have been remakes of earlier successful (and a few not-so-successful) films. ![]() But that doesn’t mean the remakes themselves are all bad. I’ve noticed quite a few remakes in recent years, which make Hollywood filmmakers look desperate to come up with new ideas. Movie remakes get a bad name because of such misfires as Poseidon, The Haunting, and let’s not forget the infamous Psycho.
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