Sometimes, an author will write a story that is consciously based on an older story (typically in the
public domain) but with a
modernized setting and
characters.
Films
- 10 Things I Hate About You – William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew re-located to modern suburbia
- Apocalypse Now - Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War
- Bride and Prejudice - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- Bridget Jones's Diary – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- A Cinderella Story - Cinderella in modern Los Angeles
- Carmen: A Hip Hopera - Carmen
- Carmen Jones - Carmen
- Clueless – based on Jane Austen's Emma but set in modern California among valley girls
- Coriolanus - a 2011 film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus by Ralph Fiennes. Set in modern times; using the original dialogue
- Crime and Punishment in Suburbia – Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment set in a suburban high school.
- Cruel Intentions - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses set among wealthy teenagers in modern New York City.
- Damn Yankees - Faust
- The Dark Knight Rises - based loosely on A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.[1]
- Dracula 2000 - Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Easy A - a self-referential adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter set in a modern high school.
- Ever After – Cinderella
- Freeway - Modernized Little Red Riding Hood movie whereas "hood" is a slang term referring to a low-income urban neighborhood.
- From Prada to Nada - Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility set in modern Los Angeles.
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens' Great Expectations set in modern Florida
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare's Hamlet set in modern Manhattan
- The Hours - self-referential adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- A Midsummer Night's Rave – William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in the rave scene
- My Own Private Idaho - William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V
- O – retelling of William Shakespeare's Othello in a private school
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Homer's Odyssey adapted to the 1930s American South
- Pretty Woman - Pygmalion
- Romeo + Juliet – William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet adapted for modern California; used mostly the original dialogue
- Scotland, PA – William Shakespeare's Macbeth set in a fast food restaurant in Scotland, Pennsylvania
- Scrooged – Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in 1980s Manhattan.
- She's All That – Pygmalion
- She's the Man – William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will re-located to modern suburbia
- A Simple Twist of Fate - George Eliot's novel Silas Marner
- Spike – Cupid and Psyche, Hades and Persephone, Beauty and the Beast
- Sydney White - Snow White
- Tempest - William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Trishna - Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Tromeo and Juliet – A modern, punk adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs - Cyrano de Bergerac[2]
- Roxanne - Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
- West Side Story - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Whatever It Takes - Cyrano de Bergerac
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