Reboots and revivals could look like a latest phenomenon, however they’ve been a Hollywood custom because the business’s earliest days.
The observe doesn’t simply prolong to remaking the identical film many times — it additionally encompasses basic movies being changed into tv sequence. Casablanca, for instance, winner of the 1943 Oscar for Finest Image, spawned two short-lived TV adaptions.
The primary present, titled Casablanca, premiered on ABC in 1955 however was canceled after 10 episodes. The second, additionally titled Casablanca, premiered on NBC in 1983 and was canceled after simply 5 episodes. David Soul, well-known for taking part in Hutch within the authentic Starsky & Hutch TV sequence, performed the Humphrey Bogart character Rick Blaine, whereas Hector Elizondo starred in Claude Rains’ function of Captain Louis Renault.
The flicks-to-TV pattern actually took off within the Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties when hits together with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Soiled Dancing bought small-screen diversifications. Within the former, titled merely Ferris Bueller, a younger Jennifer Aniston starred as Ferris’ sister Jeannie (performed by Jennifer Gray within the 1986 movie).
In accordance with former GQ editor Jim Nelson, who labored on the present, the Pals alum dated costar Charlie Schlatter, who performed Ferris (Matthew Broderick within the film). “She was pretty, saved to herself on the set, smoldering a bit like her outraged character, 17-year-old Jeannie Bueller,” Nelson wrote in 2014. “Everybody on set thought she was sizzling, together with Schlatter, with whom she had a short, torrid romance — whereas taking part in, it have to be mentioned, his older sister. To we immaturions on the present, this appeared extra-hot.”
Although a couple of TV exhibits tailored from films turn into vastly profitable, many extra by no means fairly bought their footing. In 2014, a CBS sequence based mostly on the Cameron Diaz movie Unhealthy Instructor was canceled after simply three episodes. Within the present, Ari Graynor took over the titular function.
Regardless of the sitcom’s quick run, Graynor was nonetheless happy with her work. “I really like Meredith,” she informed the Televixen weblog of her function in 2014. “So, even when she’s doing outrageous, ridiculous issues, I fully perceive the place it’s coming from inside her. … She’s an underdog herself and that helps to steadiness a few of that stuff.”
Arguably some of the beloved movies-turned-shows in latest reminiscence is Friday Night time Lights, based mostly on the 2004 movie of the identical title (which was in flip based mostly on a guide). Followers have been clamoring for a reboot for years, nevertheless it doesn’t look promising.
“I heard inklings a couple of years in the past that they have been gonna make one other Friday Night time Lights,” Connie Britton, who performed Tami Taylor on the NBC sequence, informed Leisure Tonight in July 2021. “In the meantime, we all know we’ve already had a film, we already had this TV present, after which in the event that they have been to do it once more with, like, a complete totally different iteration of it, I don’t know. I might suppose that might be form of odd.”
Preserve scrolling to see what different films have been given the TV remedy through the years:
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Films That Had been Turned Into TV Reveals Over the Years: ‘Clueless,’ ‘Scream’ and Extra
Reboots and revivals could look like a latest phenomenon, however they have been a Hollywood custom because the business’s earliest days.
The observe would not simply prolong to remaking the identical film many times — it additionally encompasses basic movies being changed into tv sequence. Casablanca, for instance, winner of the 1943 Oscar for Finest Image, spawned two short-lived TV adaptions.
The primary present, titled Casablanca, premiered on ABC in 1955 however was canceled after 10 episodes. The second, additionally titled Casablanca, premiered on NBC in 1983 and was canceled after simply 5 episodes. David Soul, well-known for taking part in Hutch within the authentic Starsky & Hutch TV sequence, performed the Humphrey Bogart character Rick Blaine, whereas Hector Elizondo starred in Claude Rains’ function of Captain Louis Renault.
The flicks-to-TV pattern actually took off within the Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties when hits together with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Soiled Dancing bought small-screen diversifications. Within the former, titled merely Ferris Bueller, a younger Jennifer Aniston starred as Ferris’ sister Jeannie (performed by Jennifer Gray within the 1986 movie).
In accordance with former GQ editor Jim Nelson, who labored on the present, the Pals alum dated costar Charlie Schlatter, who performed Ferris (Matthew Broderick within the film). “She was pretty, saved to herself on the set, smoldering a bit like her outraged character, 17-year-old Jeannie Bueller,” Nelson wrote in 2014. “Everybody on set thought she was sizzling, together with Schlatter, with whom she had a short, torrid romance — whereas taking part in, it have to be mentioned, his older sister. To we immaturions on the present, this appeared extra-hot.”
Although a couple of TV exhibits tailored from films turn into vastly profitable, many extra by no means fairly bought their footing. In 2014, a CBS sequence based mostly on the Cameron Diaz movie Unhealthy Instructor was canceled after simply three episodes. Within the present, Ari Graynor took over the titular function.
Regardless of the sitcom’s quick run, Graynor was nonetheless happy with her work. “I really like Meredith,” she informed the Televixen weblog of her function in 2014. “So, even when she’s doing outrageous, ridiculous issues, I fully perceive the place it’s coming from inside her. … She’s an underdog herself and that helps to steadiness a few of that stuff.”
Arguably some of the beloved movies-turned-shows in latest reminiscence is Friday Night time Lights, based mostly on the 2004 movie of the identical title (which was in flip based mostly on a guide). Followers have been clamoring for a reboot for years, nevertheless it would not look promising.
“I heard inklings a couple of years in the past that they have been gonna make one other Friday Night time Lights,” Connie Britton, who performed Tami Taylor on the NBC sequence, informed Leisure Tonight in July 2021. “In the meantime, we all know we have already had a film, we already had this TV present, after which in the event that they have been to do it once more with, like, a complete totally different iteration of it, I do not know. I might suppose that might be form of odd.”
Preserve scrolling to see what different films have been given the TV remedy through the years:
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‘Westworld’
Launched in 1973, the unique Westworld movie, written and directed by Jurassic Park writer Michael Crichton, served because the inspiration for HBO’s Westworld sequence. The community renewed the present for a fourth season in April 2020.
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‘Fargo’
The Coen brothers’ 1996 movie impressed the FX anthology sequence of the identical title, which aired its fourth season in 2020. Along with racking up Emmy and Golden Globe nominations through the years, the present was additionally the place the place Plemons met his now-fiancée, Kirsten Dunst.
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‘Watchmen’
Primarily based on the 1986 graphic novel of the identical title, Zack Snyder‘s 2009 movie model of Watchmen later impressed an HBO restricted sequence that aired in 2020. The present, starring Regina King, Jean Sensible and Jeremy Irons, befell in the identical universe however was set 34 years after the occasions of the comics and film.
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’12 Monkeys’
Terry Gilliam‘s 1995 movie (which was based mostly on 1962’s La Jetée) impressed the Syfy sequence of the identical title, which ran from 2015 to 2018.
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‘Moist Sizzling American Summer season’
The beloved cult basic has spawned two Netflix sequence: a prequel titled Moist Sizzling American Summer season: First Day of Camp and a sequel titled Moist Sizzling American Summer season: Ten Years Later.
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‘The Darkish Crystal’
The 1982 fantasy movie, directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, turned a Netflix prequel sequence known as The Darkish Crystal: The Age of Resistance in 2019.
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‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
Earlier than Sarah Michelle Gellar slayed the undead on the beloved WB sequence, Kristy Swanson performed the titular function in a 1992 film that additionally starred Luke Perry. The present, which additionally starred David Boreanaz and Alyson Hannigan, ran from 1997 to 2003.
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‘Psycho’
Alfred Hitchcock’s basic horror movie impressed the drama sequence Bates Motel, which ran from 2013 to 2017, and adopted a younger Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) earlier than the occasions of the film.
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‘The Karate Child’
The 1984 film spawned the sequel sequence Cobra Kai, which was renewed for a fifth season in August 2021.
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‘The Silence of the Lambs’
The Oscar-winning 1991 movie impressed Hannibal, starring Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen, in addition to Clarice, informed from the angle of FBI agent Clarice Starling (performed by Jodie Foster and later Julianne Moore).
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‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
The 1975 film (based mostly on Ken Kesey’s novel of the identical title) impressed Ryan Murphy‘s Netflix sequence Ratched, starring Sarah Paulson because the titular nurse.
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‘Excessive Faculty Musical’
Disney’s musical trilogy served as inspiration for the Disney+ present Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Sequence, starring Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett. The comedy, which premiered in 2020, follows a gaggle of excessive schoolers as they stage a musical adaptation of the unique movie.
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’10 Issues I Hate About You’
The beloved 1999 teen comedy, starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, later impressed a two-season sitcom that aired on ABC Household from 2009 to 2010.
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‘Fame’
The 1980 film was later changed into an Emmy-winning sequence that aired from 1982 to 1987 on NBC and later in syndication.
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‘Teen Wolf’
The basic Michael J. Fox comedy served as the premise for a 1986 animated present of the identical title. In 2011, MTV debuted a live-action adaption of the film, which starred Tyler Posey within the title function and aired for six seasons.
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‘M*A*S*H’
The most effective-known examples of a movie-turned-show, M*A*S*H was tailored from the 1970 movie of the identical title and aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983.
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‘Scream’
The horror movie sequence bought a brand new life on MTV in 2015 earlier than airing its third and ultimate season in 2019.
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‘The Purge’
In 2018, USA’s The Purge, which is predicated on the film sequence of the identical title, premiered. The present ran for 2 seasons earlier than the community canceled it in Might 2020.
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‘The Girlfriend Expertise’
Steven Soderbergh‘s 2009 movie served because the inspiration for Starz’s anthology sequence, which premiered 2016. The present’s third season debuted in Might 2021.
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‘Heathers’
The 1989 cult basic starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater turned a one-season TV sequence in 2018.
