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What are the chances that an independent movie, written by an amateur who is unpublished or not produced, will get a remake by a much more well-known movie production whatever it's called. thanks.
independent movies getting a remake.
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Well there are examples of 'small indy' European films that get remade as Big American Films - usually to the detriment of the script. I suppose there are small american films that have been remade by bigger studios - but I can't think of any. Unless you go back to "B" movies from the forties - but those were studio films.
Who knows?
It would be a guess. 1 in 1,000,000?
SLINGBLADE beat the odds but then it was brilliant.
It would be a guess. 1 in 1,000,000?
SLINGBLADE beat the odds but then it was brilliant.
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Slingblade was not a remake of anything afaik, it was an original script by Thornton. Hence he got famous enough to make a lot of weird crap.
The only example I can think of is THE TOXIC AVENGER, which is being remade. But that was more than 30 years ago, I think.
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Okay. Here's one. "Little Shop of Horrors" - Original Roger Corman film from 1960 Remade as both a Broadway Musical and a Feature Film Remake in 1986,
There might be others.
(I took the original posters' "Not Produced" comment as 'no production credits prior to the small indy film')
There might be others.
(I took the original posters' "Not Produced" comment as 'no production credits prior to the small indy film')
I'll see if we can do a quick Fermi Estimation to take a stab at the answer.
1. Sundance get around 2,000 entries per year of indie films [SUP]Ref[/SUP]
2. I'll guess that about half of films get submitted.
3. About 7% of the around 200 films with a theatrical release in the USA in 2010 was a remake[SUP]Ref[/SUP] .. although none seemed to be a remake of a obscure indie film.
4. So let's say that 1 in 5 years have a film that is a big budget remake of an obscure indie film. That seems high (especially since we are all having trouble thinking of examples) but it's just an estimation.
This gives a guesstimate of 1 in 20,000 - about 0.005% as an upper limit.
Of course, there are other paths - some passion projects were done as short films first and later developed into TV series. An obvious recent example is 'Wilfred' - done initially as a low budget short and then developed later into a TV series.
1. Sundance get around 2,000 entries per year of indie films [SUP]Ref[/SUP]
2. I'll guess that about half of films get submitted.
3. About 7% of the around 200 films with a theatrical release in the USA in 2010 was a remake[SUP]Ref[/SUP] .. although none seemed to be a remake of a obscure indie film.
4. So let's say that 1 in 5 years have a film that is a big budget remake of an obscure indie film. That seems high (especially since we are all having trouble thinking of examples) but it's just an estimation.
This gives a guesstimate of 1 in 20,000 - about 0.005% as an upper limit.
Of course, there are other paths - some passion projects were done as short films first and later developed into TV series. An obvious recent example is 'Wilfred' - done initially as a low budget short and then developed later into a TV series.
