It 1990

It 1990

Stars: Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O’Toole

Plot: In 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

Rebooted: It, open in theaters on September 8, 2017 (USA).

Dunkirk (1958)

Dunkirk (1958)

Director: Leslie Norman
Writers: Trevor Dudley Smith (novel) (as Elleston Trevor), Ewan Butler (book) (as Lt. Col. Ewan Butler)
Stars: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee

Plot: A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

Rebooted: Dunkirk, open in theaters on July 21, 2017 (USA).

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writers: Michael Wilson (screenplay), Rod Serling (screenplay)
Stars: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter

Plot: An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

Rebooted: War for the Planet of the Apes, open in theaters on July 14, 2017 (USA).

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (1979)

Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writers: Sandor Stern (screenplay), Jay Anson (based on the book by)
Stars: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger

Plot: Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.

Rebooted: The Amityville Harvest, open in theaters on October 20, 2020 (USA).

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The Beguiled (1971)

The Beguiled (1971)

Director: Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel)
Writers: Albert Maltz (screenplay) (as John B. Sherry), Irene Kamp (screenplay) (as Grimes Grice)
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman

Plot: While imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women’s hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.

Rebooted: The Beguiled, open in theaters on June 23, 2017 (USA).