8 Movie Remakes That Pissed Off The Original Creators

8. Fame

Alan Parker's beloved 1980 musical won two Oscars, spawned multiple TV shows, and inspired countless stage productions. With such a successful franchise, a movie remake was somewhat inevitable, and 2009 was the year that it finally happened.

But this new version didn't exactly have Parker's blessing, despite the team behind the remake claiming otherwise. In fact, Parker felt like the original Fame was his baby, and likened the experience of having the movie remade to being "mugged".

Chatting with The Telegraph after the remake's opening weekend, the director pointed fingers at the producers for failing to contact him before making it, while also calling the project "dreadful". He then complained that the studio could just take his original work and mess with it however they wanted, admitting that he found this process "galling":

"Because the copyright is owned by the studio, as with almost all American feature films, they can do a remake like this. It's extremely galling. There is no other area of the arts where you can do that."

Parker even added that he was considering pursuing legal action over the remake's use of the Fame logo, claiming that distributor MGM did not have the rights to use it.