10 Movies Nobody Wanted To Admit Were Actually Remakes
They won't admit it, but we've definitely seen all of these movies somewhere before.
In the era we live in where name recognition and popular brands are more important that original concepts or a movie star's ability to sell tickets when it comes to designing, creating and marketing their latest offering, Hollywood has been cannibalizing their own back catalogue at an alarming rate.
At some point Disney are going to run out of their animated classics to remake, and will be forced to resort to star-studded adaptations of Home on the Range or Meet the Robinsons to keep those box office dollars coming in. We might even end up reaching a point where even the most sacred of movies will end up being remade, as we resign ourselves to Adam Sandler's Citizen Kane or a gender-swapped Shawshank Redemption.
Remakes always have that curiosity factor that make people want to check them out to see how it stacks up to the original, but those sneaky devils in Tinseltown also have a habit of repackaging something and sending it out into the world without even telling anyone that we've already seen this movie before.
They might not want to admit it, and sometimes even do their best to convince us of the exact opposite, but there's been plenty of times where a fresh coat of paint hasn't exactly compensated for a lack of originality.
10. Tom Cruise Does Wall-E In Oblivion
Joseph Kosinski's $120m sci-fi blockbuster marked a rare venture into sci-fi territory for star Tom Cruise, but by the time we'd reached the end credits it seemed like we'd already seen this story before, one that also starred a tiny-yet-lovable hero.
In adapting his own graphic novel for the big screen, Kosinksi probably had little idea that Oblivion was basically a live-action remake of WALL-E, but it definitely didn't go over the heads of the people that had seen both. Cruise's character spends most of his time alone on an inhabitable Earth while the survivors of humanity resides on a spaceship high above, waiting for him to finish his job so they can return to the planet.
Then a mysterious love interest appears out of nowhere, and our main character takes her back to his place and shows her his secret stash of miscellaneous trinkets that he's collected over the years, before the two are forced to work together to rebel against their orders after it becomes clear that all is not what it seems.
Despite the similarities in plot and aesthetics, WALL-E ironically has much more humanity and life than its live-action successor, which sucks out all of the potential fun that could be had from casting Tom Cruise as the only man on the planet, free to run really fast and jump off all the high things that he wants.