History Main / SettingUpdate

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The past scenes in the book begin in 1791, but in the series, they start in 1910.

* ''Series/AllOfUsAreDead'': The webtoon happens in 2011, while the show happens in 2021. Therefore, characters make mentions of events like the CoVID-19 and ''Train to Busan''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Video Revue" updates the 1948 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "[[WesternAnimation/BookRevue Book Revue]]", this time with tapes instead of books.

* ''Film/{{Coriolanus}}'' changes the setting from Ancient Rome to the present, and evokes the Balkan wars without being specifically set during them.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': The original light novels are set in the early 2000s, when the first few novels were published. The anime updates the setting to the early 2010s.

Adaptations and {{Remake}}s of old stories will frequently move them closer to the production in time, space or both, even if the original is only a couple of decades old, in a DerivativeWorks kind of CreatorProvincialism.

Distinct from RecycledInSpace in that the purpose is to make the story more familiar and accessible (as well as cutting production costs), whereas that trope is often based around transplanting a story into a ''less'' familiar setting. Also, by its nature, a Setting Update is typically made long after the original, whereas a RecycledPremise is usually a copy made [[FollowTheLeader to cash in on hot demand]]. Sometimes, especially with the more radical changes, it can be a genuinely clever analogy.

Please do ''not'' describe examples in the RecycledInSpace style. That is a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, and zero context examples are not allowed on the Wiki.

* ''Film/CastAway'' is ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' in the [[TheNineties mid-late 1990s]] with [[CompanionCube a volleyball]] as Friday. Older still is ''Film/LtRobinCrusoeUSN'' from TheSixties.

* The ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'' books were written in the 1950s and '60s. ''Film/{{Paddington}}'' is set in the modern day, although it leaves the exact time period vague. The biggest change involves Mrs. Bird; she's a live-in housekeeper in the books. Naturally not likely for a modern middle-class English family, so she's said to be a relative.

* ''Franchise/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' is particularly prone to this in adaptations, with the [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds 1938 radio play]], the [[Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953 1953 film]], the [[Series/WarOfTheWorlds1988 1980s]] [=TV=] series, and two of the three [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds 2005 films]] moving the setting to the present day from the novel's 1902. Music/JeffWayne's RockOpera [[Music/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds adaptation]] (and the [[VideoGame/JeffWaynesWarOfTheWorlds PC game]] based on it), along with the third of the 2005 releases, are the only ones that ''keep'' the original setting.

* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds2019'': The story is moved to the modern day, with the aliens coming from somewhere unknown.

* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'': In the original game, the Cordyceps outbreak took place in 2013 with the main events occurring twenty years later in 2033. In the show, the outbreak is moved back ten years to 2003, such that the main events will occur in 2023 instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinnocchio'' relocates the 1883 novel to the Fascist period.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Video Revue" updates the 1948 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Book Revue", this time with tapes instead of books.

* ''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'': The series starts out in 2016, thirty years on from the original film. Gentrification in Fort Greene is a recurring theme, while modern events like the election of Donald Trump or Black Lives Matter are featured too.

* ''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'' updates the [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt 1986 original]]'s setting to 2017. Fort Greene, Brooklyn is now in the process of gentrifying instead of being the relatively poor, crime-ridden neighborhood that it was in the original film. Additionally, Nola Darling is now pansexual, and a woman is among one of her many lovers.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' imprint is early(ish) Creator/MarvelComics in the '00s. Earlier ComicBook/MarvelAdventures comics (formerly known as Marvel Age) were the same thing, only child-friendly, and they directly adapted older Marvel comics.
* In Creator/MarvelComics or Creator/DCComics superhero lines, almost any retelling of a character's origin will fall into this category, especially as regards technology, the status of minorities and who the President is. The only exceptions are characters whose origins are fixed in history, e.g. ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. (That said, compare the versions of Cap's awakening in the modern day from the original in ''Avengers'' #4-10 (when he was only 20 years out of date, and most of the changes to the world would have been at least just barely understandable), and the ''Captain America: Man Out of Time'' miniseries for a perfect example of this trope.)

* Creator/JeffLemire's ''The Nobody'' is ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'' [-IN THE 1990s!-]

* ''Comicbook/TamaraDrewe'' is ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd'' [-AT A WRITER'S RETREAT!-]
* By the same author, ''Gemma Bovery'' is ''Literature/MadameBovary'' [-ABOUT A BRITISH EX-PAT IN MODERN FRANCE!-]
* Creator/VertigoComics' ''Greek Street'' was Myth/ClassicalMythology [-IN MODERN LONDON!-]

* ''Fanfic/DreamOfAcediaBeYourTrueMind'': The events of ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' aren't given an exact year, but there are some details (such as the presence of virtual pets and Sunny's computer being based on Windows 95/98} that place them somewhere between TheNineties and the TurnOfTheMilennium. Due to crossing over with ''VideoGame/Persona5'', they are instead set in 2019.
* ''Fanfic/TwoKindsDannyPhantomLadybug'', a Danny Phantom Miraculous Ladybug crossover, updates the Danny Phantom half from it's early 2000's setting to the more modern setting of Ladybug.

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* Judging from the Victorian-looking fashions, Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' takes place at some point in the 19th century. The opening credits say that the film is adapted from the version written by Creator/CharlesPerrault, who lived two centuries earlier. And, of course, the original folk tale is older even than that.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' is Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'' [-IN 16TH CENTURY CENTRAL AMERICA!-]

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* ''Film/TheTollOfTheSea'' is a silent movie adaptation of ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' - which is set in early 1900s Japan. The film moves it to the 1920s and relocates it to China.
* ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' is particularly prone to this in adaptations, with the [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds 1938 radio play]], the [[Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953 1953 film]], the [[Series/WarOfTheWorlds1988 1980s]] [=TV=] series, and two of the three [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds 2005 films]] moving the setting to the present day from the novel's 1902. Music/JeffWayne's RockOpera [[Music/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds adaptation]] (and the [[VideoGame/JeffWaynesWarOfTheWorlds PC game]] based on it), along with the third of the 2005 releases, are the only ones that ''keep'' the original setting.

* ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' takes place in TheAughts instead of during the Cold War. Perhaps the most noticeable difference is the use of Texas hold 'em instead of baccarat due to the rise in popularity of poker at the time. It also helps that Texas hold 'em is a simpler game, more skill-based, and more directly competitive.
* The film adaptations of ''Literature/TheBourneSeries'', which was written in the '70s, also necessitated major changes to the plot since the RippedFromTheHeadlines villains of the books were no longer relevant in the 2000s (being just a teensy bit ''in prison for the rest of his life'').

** The [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy]] is heavily inspired by the original Lee/Ditko run and stays true to the [[{{Camp}} campy]] Silver Age tone of those comics, except instead of being set in the 1960s, it's the early-to-mid 2000s.
*** The Spider-Man films update the technology but also address the changes in society since the initial publication of its source material, specifically in the way they handle Peter Parker; since being geeky isn't stigmatized like it was in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the 1960s]], the films (outside of the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' since nerdiness still wasn't in the mainstream at the time) have changed Peter's social status accordingly, with ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', which is set in 2012, initially portraying him as a moody, cool loner to retain his original misfit depiction from the comics, while ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', set in the late 2010s, mostly eschews the misfit thing entirely, portraying him as an easygoing kid who doesn't have as much trouble interacting with his peers and is even respected and valued for his smarts (as seen with his participation in the academic decathlon). Likewise, Flash Thompson goes from being a JerkJock who beats Peter Parker up, to an AcademicAlphaBitch who still bullies him, just not in a way that involves violence or physical strength. Another change to the setting is that Peter's school, and New York itself, is much more racially diverse than the nearly all-white MonochromeCasting of the classic comics, and instead of the Daily Bugle newspaper, ComicBook/JJonahJameson spreads his anti-Spider-Man propaganda through a controversial news site, [=TheDailyBugle.Net=].
* ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' is Charles Dickens' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' in the 1980s. It works, though, because of the cleverness of using a ShowWithinAShow concept - the Scrooge analog is producing a live TV adaptation of the original ''A Christmas Carol'', yet clearly misses the point until it happens to him.
* Similar to ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'', ''Film/{{Spirited|2022}}'' is a version of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' set in the modern day, albeit with the main difference being the latter is a musical.
* This used to be commonplace for Franchise/SherlockHolmes movies. For instance, only the first two of the Rathbone/Bruce series in the 1930s-1940s (the 20th Century Fox ones) took place in the Victorian era, with the twelve Universal films (the "[[Film/TheBakerStreetDozen Baker Street Dozen]]") set firmly in World War II and later the post-war era.
* ''{{Literature/Carrie}}'' is set in the 70s but received two remakes that did this.
** ''{{Film/Carrie 2002}}'' is a MadeForTVMovie that updates it to 2002, with the teen characters using cell phones and emails to communicate. Carrie uses the internet to research her powers, rather than books in the library, the testimonials from Carrie's peers are filmed with video cameras rather than transcribed from tape recorders. Additionally, the film adds a small detail where the culprits who killed the pigs get busted with CCTV footage.
** ''{{Film/Carrie 2013}}'' addresses cyberbullying, with Chris recording a video of Carrie's traumatic first period and later playing it at the prom - the video later being used to discredit Chris's father's attempted lawsuit. It's also said that social services stepped in to stop Margaret from home-schooling Carrie.
* The 2005 ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. In particular, Mike Teavee's addiction is changed from gangster movies and westerns to violent video games! There are animatronic puppets that malfunction comically! (Strangely enough, when Teavee is confronted with a video game setting inside the factory, he claims that it is "lame".)

* ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' was ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' and Myth/{{Faust}} in the '70s.

* ''Film/TheATeam'' is ''Series/TheATeam'' with Iraq veterans.
* The 1998 film version of ''Film/GreatExpectations'' is set in Florida and New York in the Seventies and Eighties, and Pip's name is changed to Finnegan Bell, among other name changes.
* ''Film/{{Click}}'' is The Magic Thread, an old French tale, set in the modern-day United States. The premise of a tv remote control that can control time is taken from an old ''Buster Comics'' strip called ''Vid Kid''.

* ''Film/CastAway'' is ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' in the [[TheNineties Mid-Late 1990s]] with '''a [[CompanionCube VOLLEYBALL]] as Friday!''' Older still was ''Film/LtRobinCrusoeUSN'' from TheSixties.
* ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is ''The Shop Around the Corner'' in modern-day America. (It's even lampshaded with the name of Meg Ryan's bookstore).

* ''Film/WeirdScience'' was adapted from a 1950s comic book story and updated for [-[[TheEighties THE 1980s]] home computer age.
* The 2014 version of ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'' is set in ThePresentDay rather than the 1930s, averting the PoliticallyCorrectHistory of the 1999 version. This produces several other changes, such as Miss Hannigan running a foster home instead of an orphanage.
* The Franchise/UniversalHorror films ''Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}}'' and ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'' are both based on books written in the 19th century but the films take place in the then-present day.
* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' is very similar to "[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]]", though transplanted to turn-of-the-century Mexico, with an added focus on a cultural holiday - the Day of the Dead.
* The 2001 MadeForTVMovie ''Murder on the Orient Express'' is ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'' at the turn of the millennium.
* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' is ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' in 1990s America. Miss Trunchbull, however, [[EvilBrit remains British]].

* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' is a very loose adaptation of the 80s ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' cartoon that takes place in the 2010s.
* Francis Ford Coppola's ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' is a loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', which is set during the Scramble for Africa period in the Congo, showing the savageries carried out in the name of imperialism. The film updates this setting to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar where the U.S. intervened in Southeast Asia, showing that WarIsHell.
* The remake of ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' is set in the time period during and after the first Gulf War, as opposed to the original Korean War setting.
* A 1998 MadeForTVMovie of ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass'' on Creator/Channel4 had a contemporary setting, although the nature of Looking Glass Land is such that this was only obvious in the FramingStory (where Kate Beckinsdale's Alice is [[AgeLift a grown woman]] reading ''Through the Looking Glass'' to her daughter) and the costuming decisions.
* InvertedTrope in ''Film/MaryPoppins'', which moves the story ''back'' in time from the 1930s to the 1910s. ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' takes place 20 years after the first movie, meaning the stories it adapts actually take place in the same decade featured in the books.
* ''{{Film/She|1965}}'': The 1965 film updates the story from "18--" to 1918, and makes the heroes a group of recently-demobbed British soldiers.
* Not that it mattered much (since the updated setting is destroyed), but Arthur in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is from an era of videophones, rather than one where people "still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea".
* Inverted with ''Film/BloodOfBeasts'', which is ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' in Norse times.

* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' inverts this, changing the setting from World War II to World War I.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'' (1986) has [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits "The Losers Club"]] meeting in 1957 as teenagers, then reuniting in 1984 as adults. [[Film/It2017 The 2017 movie]] has them meeting as teenagers in 1988, with [[spoiler: a SequelHook at the end identifying the movie as ''It: Chapter One'']]. Considering the entity "It" is supposed to awaken every 27 years, [[spoiler: ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' took place in 2015]].
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' takes place in the '90s, but the film adaptations ignore this and set them in the years they were made. ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' is set in 2000-2001 for example. It becomes noticeable from the third film onwards, where the fashions are those of the early 2000s rather than the '90s, Mr Weasley gets fascinated by an Oyster Card reader (established in 2003), and the Millennium Bridge features in the sixth film.
* The Creator/ShawBrothers film ''Film/TheMagnificentTrio'' is a very loose adaptation of Hideo Gosha's ''Three Outlaw Samurai'', but the setting has been updated from feudal Japan to Ming Dynasty China.
* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was set in the '90s. The 2017 ContinuityReboot sets it in TheNewTens.
* ''{{Film/Paddington}}''[='=]s original books were written in the 1950s and 60s. The film is set in the modern-day, although it leaves the exact time period vague. The biggest change involves Mrs. Bird; she's a live-in housekeeper in the books. Naturally not likely for a modern middle-class English family, so she's said to be a relative.
* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' is based on a book that was written in the 70s, but the film takes place in the late 90s. [[InNameOnly Not that that's the only difference]].
* ''Film/BrideAndPrejudice'' is naturally Jane Austen's novel in modern-day India. The CultureClash between the Bennets and Bingleys is achieved by making the Bennets Indian, while the Bingleys are second-generation Indians in England. Darcy becomes an American [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]].
* ''Film/PrisonerOfTheMountains'': It's a testimony to how long ethnic Russians have been fighting the peoples of the Caucasus that this film, set in the 1990s First Chechen War, is actually an adaptation of a 120-year-old Creator/LeoTolstoy short story, "Prisoners of the Caucasus."
* Both adaptations of ''Literature/RedDragon''-- 1986's ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' and 2002's... erm... ''Red Dragon''-- update the story from 1979 to an ambiguous point in the mid-80s. In the case of ''Manhunter'', this was simply a case of making the plot more contemporary, though not without the minor anachronism of [[spoiler:Dolarhyde still seeking out his victims from the 8mm and 16mm home movies he develops for them]], which revolved around a method of technology that was quickly rendered obsolete by the rise of [[spoiler:camcorders]] around the same time. In the 2002 film, the change in setting is more to preserve continuity with the 1991 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', which itself also changes the setting to 1990, the intended year of its release before it got pushed back in favor of ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' (the book version of ''Lambs'' never specifies when it's set, but is quietly implied to take place in or just before its publication year of 1988). The 2002 film also better updates the story to fit the new setting by [[spoiler:changing the circumstances of Dolarhyde's job so that he now edits families' camcorder recordings onto a single tape]].

* ''{{Film/Pan}}'' takes place during World War II as opposed to the original play and book's Edwardian setting. As this is an origin story for Peter, those events took place in Victorian times.
* The [[RecycledTheSeries Netflix adaptation]] of the 1986 movie ''She's Gotta Have It'' updates the setting to 2017. Fort Greene, Brooklyn is now in the process of gentrifying instead of being the relatively poor, crime-ridden neighborhood that it was in the original film. Additionally, Nola Darling is now pansexual and a woman is among one of her many lovers.

* ''Film/SummerCampNightmare'' adapts ''Literature/TheButterflyRevolution'' to take place in The Eighties, complete with music and technology from that era.

* Whilst the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' books were implied to take place roughly 10000 years or more from the present day, comments from [[Film/MortalEngines the film adaptation's]] production designer place the movie at approximately 1700 years from now.
* The 2019 remake of ''[[Film/PetSematary2019 Pet Sematary]]'' has Gage and Ellie watch an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' instead of ''Series/TheMuppetShow.''
* Baz Luhrmann's ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' did ''Romeo and Juliet'' [-IN THE MODERN DAY! WITH GUNS!-]
* ''Literature/AboutABoy'''s literary counterpart is set in the 90s, but the film adaptation is in the 2000s. This majorly changes the last part - which in the book deals with Kurt Cobain's suicide.
* A 2000 adaptation of ''Hamlet'' by Michael Almereyda updates the Shakespeare play to the year 2000, with it now concerning a business empire.
* Inverted in ''Film/Dumbo2019''. The [[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} original animated film]] was made and set in the 1940s (there's even a brief gag referencing UsefulNotes/WorldWarII), but the live-action remake takes place in the 1920s.

* Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' is set in pre-WWI, but the movie changes it to post-WWII - explicitly shown by the song "1921", being changed into "1951".

* ''Film/{{The Fly|1986}}'', being an InNameOnly adaptation of the 1957 short story anyway, is set in the then-present day of 1986, with many of the various technological, scientific, and social advances that happened in the interim proving key to the plot. For instance, the main character is genetically fused with an insect in a TeleporterAccident rather than having his head and hand proportionally swapped with it, and his love interest's videotapes of his work come in handy at one point. When the film was given a ScreenToStageAdaptation into an opera in 2008, the trope was ''inverted'' in its original Paris and Los Angeles stagings to reset the story in the 1950s, although the libretto is vague enough that it can be set in ThePresentDay without alterations (as a later staging in Germany did).

* ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' upgrades ''Film/{{Scarface|1932}}'' swapping UsefulNotes/TheRoaringTwenties UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and TheMafia with early [[TheEighties 1980s]] UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} and [[UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} Cubans]].

* ''Film/{{The Italian Job|1969}}'' has a British heist crew organized in London to pull off a caper in Turin. [[Film/TheItalianJob2003 The American remake]] has an American heist crew pull off a caper in Venice only to be betrayed by one of their members. They follow him to Los Angeles to perform another caper out of revenge.
* The 2002 film adaptation of ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' moves the setting from the book’s year 1880 to 1914 in order to make the movie closer to the present day. Among the changes included are the Fosters owning a Ford Model T, Winnie having to wear a corset (which was outdated by then), and going on a tour of the world. Unfortunately, this last-mentioned change is very problematic, as UsefulNotes/WorldWarI was just around the corner...

* The 1978 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheBigSleep'' moved the setting from the 1940s to the present day.
* ''Film/DarkHeritage'' moves the action of Creator/HPLovecraft' ''Literature/TheLurkingFear'' to the PresentDay (i.e. 1989) and changes the locale from LovecraftCountry to the SavageSouth.

* ''Too Many Suspects'', the pilot film for ''Series/ElleryQueen'', is set in 1946 despite being based on a 1965 novel--''The Fourth Side of the Triangle''--set roughly in the present. While both book and movie have a solution deriving from the victim's TV set, it's more of a novelty in the latter that she even has one.

* The Creator/{{NBC}} series ''Series/{{Kings}}'' is the [[Literature/TheBible biblical]] story of King Saul and David [-IN SOME SORT OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE CLOSELY RESEMBLING MODERN AMERICA!-]

* ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'' was effectively ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' [-OUT OF SPACE!-], much more pronouncedly so after the end of TNG's run. (In the first ''[=seaQuest=]'' episode after TNG ended, an alien race arrives in a ship whose design was quite obviously lifted from that of the Borg Cube.)

* ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' still takes place in Tokyo, but in 2004 rather than 1992 like in the original [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]]. As such, the technology and fashion are updated accordingly, with the communicators and Disguise Pen replaced by magical cell phones that served the same purpose. The original anime had the LocalHangout as an arcade - which had fallen from popularity in the 2000s - so Crown becomes a karaoke parlor, with the girls getting mission briefings from a private room.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderUK''. With its episodes based off of episodes from the [[Series/LawAndOrder original series]], not only did the dialogue need to be "translated" into UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish, it needed to be updated to reflect modern times--technology, cultural references, etc.

* ''Series/{{Selfie}}'' is ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' set in a modern-day pharamceutical company. Lowly flower girl Eliza Doolittle is now Eliza Dooley, a self-absorbed PluckyOfficeGirl obsessed with social media, while Prof. Henry Higgins becomes PR SpinDoctor Henry Higgs, who takes it upon himself to make Eliza into a better person.
* Only a borderline example as the original is ''very'' vague about whjen it's set, but the 1981 BBC adaptation of ''Series/{{The Day of the Triffids|1981}}'' moves the setting from "TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture from the perspective of TheFifties" to NextSundayAD in TheEighties. The [[Series/{{The Day of the Triffids|2009}} 2009 adaptation]] might also count, although it also diverges so far from the source material that it's probably beyond the remit of this trope.

* The ''Series/ArrowVerse'' series are decades-old comic books adapted for TheNewTens. Smartphones are ever-present (Supergirl even somehow manages to carry one around in her suit), popular brand names are mentioned (such as Barry having to call for an Uber, when his powers fail). Social media are also key, and Iris West now publishes online articles instead of physical newspapers. Even the nature of Barry's powers is changed from LightningCanDoAnything to a MagicalParticleAccelerator.
* Similarly, the Creator/{{Netflix}} Marvel series are updates of comics that premiered decades ago. The shows that faced the most challenges with this were ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' and ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''. ''Daredevil'' had the problem of taking place in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, which at the time the comics were written was a WretchedHive full of crime and gang violence; however, today the neighborhood has long since gentrified. The show explained the crime as being due to the events of ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' destroying Hell's Kitchen and causing an increase in crime. ''Iron Fist'' faced this at a more meta level, as major criticism even before the show came out was the MightyWhitey plot (some critics even calling for a RaceLift to an actual Asian), with some critics noting that this premise was acceptable when the comic first came out in the '70s, but now seems dated.

* ''Series/{{Sons of Anarchy}}'' is deliberately structured as ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' [-as an outlaw motorcycle gang!-]
* ''Series/WonderWoman'': Season 1 was set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with Wonder Woman posing as Yeoman Diana Prince to get leads on where she was needed. Season 2 and 3 were in [[TheSeventies the 1970's]] and focused on Agent Diana Prince fighting [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]], Corporate {{Villains}}, and other contemporary foes.
* The Creator/{{PBS}} special ''An Empire of Reason'' updates the setting of the time the Constitution was signed to the present day--in a sense, at least. Despite the modern-dress updates to the characters that appear, and the format resembling segments from television broadcasts of the aptly-named fictional Continental Television Network (CTN for short), the setting remains the late 1780's, with present-day public affairs personalities such as celebrated anchorman Walter Cronkite, ABC World News This Morning anchorman Forrest Sawyer, NBC journalist John Chancellor, NBC weatherman [[TokenMinority Al Roker]], ''[=NewsHour=]'' host Robin [=MacNeil=], NBC chief congressional correspondent [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Andrea Mitchell]], syndicated talk show host Phil Donahue, and ''Firing Line'' host William Buckley interacting with period players such as Alexander Hamilton and Robert Livingston.

* In Creator/TheBBC's adaptation of ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'', Lyra's world is the same RetroUniverse as the books, but Will's world has been updated from 1995 to 2019, with the first thing [[spoiler: Lord Boreal]] does on crossing over being to check his smartphone.

* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' was set around the late 1980s/very early 1990s (being published in 1990) while its [[Series/GoodOmens2019 miniseries adaptation]] clearly takes place in 2019. The [[TechnologyMarchesOn ubiquity of computers]] in TheNewTens makes Newt Pulsifer’s WalkingTechbane tendencies an even bigger problem. The show also has to justify Crowley using a cassette tape answering machine since it’s too plot-important to be replaced by something more modern. A more subtle change is that in the original book, the ''New Aquarian'' was a photocopied amateur zine, but in 2019, that would be a website, which you can't lend to someone, so it's a glossy ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' type publication.
* ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'': While the [[Literature/TheBabysittersClub literature franchise]] takes place in whichever years the books were published (aka [[ComicBookTime the late 1980s to early 2000s]]), the Netflix adaptation is set in 2020 and so includes a lot of modern updates, such as the girls owning mobile phones and the frequent use of the internet.

* ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'' received two; the first was an ITV series in 1998 that updated the book's 1970s setting to the present day - even inserting an original character who has the most up-to-date technology and is constantly at odds with the traditional Miss Hardbroom. The second was a CBBC/Netflix series, now incorporating things like [=iPads=] and other 2010s media.

* The modern day stories in the Netflix adaptation of ''Series/TheSandman2022'' take place in the 2020s as opposed to the late 1980s-early 1990s, the time period [[ComicBook/TheSandman the comic book]] was first published in.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' takes place in an indefinite time period during the mid-to-late 1900s. Its ContinuityReboot ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriendsAllEnginesGo'' takes place in the modern day 2020s, given the addition of smartphones and tablets.

* The original Japanese PC versions of ''VideoGame/{{Snatcher}}'', which were released in 1988, had the Catastrophe (an event in which the 80% of the Eurasian population was destroyed) occur on June 6, 1991 and the present date of the game's story to December 2042. Later Japanese console ports tend to keep these dates as ZeerustCanon, but the English-localized Sega CD port released in 1994, changes all the dates in the story by five years, moving the Catastrophe to 1996 and the present year to 2047.