10 Movies You Had No Idea They Remade

The Coen brothers' 1984 directorial debut Blood Simple is a delicious slice of American neo-noir, though hardly something many expected to ever see remade. And yet, in 2009 it was remade in China under the title A Simple Noodle Story, or its vastly superior international moniker, A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop.

Directed by the great Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), the remake shifts the action from a bar in Texas to a noodle shop in China, and adopts a far more comedic tone than the original, as proved wildly divisive with critics and audiences.

Despite this, the Coens themselves reportedly wrote to Yimou and expressed their approval of the stylistic and tonal deviations he made from their own movie. All the same, for all of its flashy changes, this is one remake that fell by the wayside in record time, in large part because the Coens' debut is probably one of their least-seen movies, no matter its quality.