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* ''[[BridgetJones Bridget Jones's Diary]]'' is ''PrideAndPrejudice'' [-IN THE MODERN DAY!-]

* The Austen Project is all Creator/JaneAusten's novels (except ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'') [-IN 21st CENTURY BRITAIN!-] Starting with ''Sense & Sensibility'' by Joanna Trollope, which is ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' [-WITH SOCIAL MEDIA!-]

* The Austen Project is all JaneAusten's novels (except ''LoveAndFreindship'') [-IN 21st CENTURY BRITAIN!-] Starting with ''Sense & Sensibility'' by Joanna Trollope, which is ''SenseAndSensibility'' [-WITH SOCIAL MEDIA!-]

* ''HeavenlySword'' is ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' [-IN ANCIENT CHINA-], [-WITH [[ActionGirl A GIRL]]!-]

* Played with: ''{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'' is ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' [-IN 16TH CENTURY GERMANY (AKA THE HOLY [ROMAN] EMPIRE)! THE HERO, EIGHT BOSSES, AND [[spoiler:[[ManBehindTheMan TRUE VILLAIN]]]] ARE ALL FEMALE! AND MAGIC IS HEAVILY FAVORED OVER TECHNOLOGY!-]

** and ''QueensBlade Spiral Chaos'' is ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' [-WITH LOTS OF FAN-SERVICE! AND ''WITHOUT'' THE GIANT ROBOTS!-]

* The obscure arcade game from {{Konami}} ''Combat School'' is ''VideoGame/TrackAndField'' [-IN A MILITARY BOOT CAMP!-]
* The Japanese PC-FX game ''Battle Heat'' is ''FistOFTheNorthStar'' [-IN A EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL SETTING!-]

* ''DeathAtAFuneral'' is ''DeathAtAFuneral'' WITH BLACK PEOPLE!!...AND THE SAME DWARF AS LAST TIME!!

* Both ''OliverAndCompany'' and ''AugustRush'' are ''OliverTwist'' [-IN MODERN-DAY NEW YORK CITY!-] The difference is that ''Oliver And Company'' adds to that [-WITH TALKING ANIMALS!-] and ''August Rush'' is [-WITH MUSICAL SKILL IN PLACE OF MONEY!-]

* ''Anime/RyofukoChan'' is ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' [-AS A {{LOLICON}} PARODY!-]

* ''LawAndOrderUK''. With its episodes based off of episodes from the original series, not only did the dialogue need to be "translated" into BritishEnglish, it needed to be updated to reflect modern times--technology, cultural references, etc.

* TheGreenMile, according to WordOfGod, is the story of the execution of Jesus [-IN A 1930s PRISON-]
* Reginald Hill's ''Pictures of Perfection'' is ''PrideAndPrejudice'' [-OopNorth IN THE 1990s! AS A GAY ROMANCE!-]

* ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' is ''Theatre/TheBeggarsOpera'' [-IN GERMAN, in Victorian or Edwardian times AND DarkerAndEdgier!-]
** Other examples from Brecht's dramatic oeuvre:
** ''Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe'' takes Schiller's ''Jungfrau von Orleans'' and transports her to the 20th century Chicago of Upton Sinclair's ''The Jungle''.
** ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'' is the rise of Hitler WITH GANGSTERS IN CHICAGO.
** ''Schwejk im Zweiten Weltkrieg'' (The Good Soldier Shvejk in World War 2) is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' takes an Chinese play based on a story of Judge Bao (which had already been translated into European languages, adapted into various plays and operas, and which Brecht himself had also transposed to his native Augsburg at the time of the ThirtyYearsWar in ''The Augsburg Chalk Circle'') and transforms it into a play within a play performed just after the end of World War 2 in Georgia (the one in the Caucasus, obviously).

* There was a 1994 Scottish tour of ''TheOddCouple'' [-IN 1990s GLASGOW-]!

* ''The New Odd Couple'' was ''TheOddCouple'' [-WITH BLACK PEOPLE!-]

* ''Literature/Dune'' is ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' [-IN SPACE!-]

*** ''SwitchbladeSisters'' (''Othello'' [-WITH KNIFE-WIELDING SCHOOLGIRLS!-])

* ''LawAndOrderUK''. With its episodes based off of episodes from the original series, not only did the dialogue need to be "translated" into British English, it needed to be updated to reflect modern times--technology, cultural references, etc.

* ''Manga/BlackJack'' is ''{{Batman}}'' [-AS A DOCTOR-], because of the chronology.

* ''ChoujinkiMetalder'' is ''[[{{Kikaider}} Android Kikaider]]'' [-SET IN THE TheEighties WITH A WorldWarII BACKDROP!-]

-->-- ''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]]''', while reviewing another Shakespeare update, ''TromeoAndJuliet''

* ''CruelIntentions'' was ''[[Literature/DangerousLiaisons Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'' [-WITH TEENAGERS IN MODERN NEW YORK!-]
* ''Film/{{Swimfan}}'' was ''PlayMistyForMe'' [-WITH TEENAGERS!-]

* Oscar Hammerstein II adapted ''CarmenJones'' from the opera ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', keeping the Bizet score but resetting the action [-IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH DURING {{WORLD WAR II}} WITH AN ALL-BLACK CAST!-]

* NeonGenesisEvangelion is EndersGame [-IN POST-APOCALYPTIC JAPAN!-]

->''"TheNineties saw a wave of middle-brow adaptations of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare The Bard's plays]], often taking them to new and interesting territory. There was Theatre/HenryIV [[Film/MyOwnPrivateIdaho with rent boys]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_%281995_film%29 a Fascist]] Theatre/RichardIII, Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew [[Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou in High School]], Theatre/{{Hamlet}} [[TheLionKing with lions]], Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet [[WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet with seizures]]..."''

** ''TheLionKing'' was ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' [-IN AFRICA! ANIMATED! DISNEYFIED! WITH A HAPPY ENDING INSTEAD OF A STAGE FULL OF CORPSES!-]

* ''NightHood'' is ''ArseneLupin'' [-IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD-]

* ''JesusChristSuperstar'' is the [[Literature/TheBible Crucifixion of Christ]] IN WHATEVER MODERN SETTING THE DIRECTOR FEELS LIKE. (It tends to involve guns and drugs).

* Thanks to censorship at the time, ''Rigoletto'' is Victor Hugo's ''Le Roi s'amuse'' IN ITALY and ''Un ball in maschera'' is the story of the assassination of king Gustav III of Sweden IN COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS.

* Semi-averted/subverted in that TimBurton's upcoming film of ''Film/DarkShadows'' is being set in 1972...just a year after the [[Series/DarkShadows original television series]] it's based on went off the air.

* ''You've Got Mail'' is ''The Shop Around the Corner'' IN AMERICA AND WITH THE INTERNET! (It's even lampshaded with the name of Meg Ryan's bookstore).