List of Modernized Retellings of Old Stories - Films

Films

  • 10 Things I Hate About You – William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew re-located to modern suburbia
  • Apocalypse Now - Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War
  • Bride and Prejudice - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  • Bridget Jones's Diary – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  • A Cinderella Story - Cinderella in modern Los Angeles
  • Carmen: A Hip Hopera - Carmen
  • Carmen Jones - Carmen
  • Clueless – based on Jane Austen's Emma but set in modern California among valley girls
  • Coriolanus - a 2011 film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus by Ralph Fiennes. Set in modern times; using the original dialogue
  • Crime and Punishment in Suburbia – Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment set in a suburban high school.
  • Cruel Intentions - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses set among wealthy teenagers in modern New York City.
  • Damn Yankees - Faust
  • The Dark Knight Rises - based loosely on A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
  • Dracula 2000 - Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • Easy A - a self-referential adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter set in a modern high school.
  • Ever After – Cinderella
  • Freeway - Modernized Little Red Riding Hood movie whereas "hood" is a slang term referring to a low-income urban neighborhood.
  • From Prada to Nada - Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility set in modern Los Angeles.
  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens' Great Expectations set in modern Florida
  • Hamlet – William Shakespeare's Hamlet set in modern Manhattan
  • The Hours - self-referential adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • A Midsummer Night's Rave – William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in the rave scene
  • My Own Private Idaho - William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V
  • O – retelling of William Shakespeare's Othello in a private school
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Homer's Odyssey adapted to the 1930s American South
  • Pretty Woman - Pygmalion
  • Rent - La Boheme
  • Romeo + Juliet – William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet adapted for modern California; used mostly the original dialogue
  • Scotland, PA – William Shakespeare's Macbeth set in a fast food restaurant in Scotland, Pennsylvania
  • Scrooged – Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in 1980s Manhattan.
  • She's All That – Pygmalion
  • She's the Man – William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will re-located to modern suburbia
  • A Simple Twist of Fate - George Eliot's novel Silas Marner
  • Spike – Cupid and Psyche, Hades and Persephone, Beauty and the Beast
  • Sydney White - Snow White
  • Tempest - William Shakespeare's The Tempest
  • Trishna - Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Tromeo and Juliet – A modern, punk adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  • The Truth About Cats & Dogs - Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Roxanne - Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
  • West Side Story - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  • Whatever It Takes - Cyrano de Bergerac

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