Another Kurosawa remake: Yojimbo became both A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing.

Casablanca was remade into a TV series in the 1980s. David Soul ("Hutch" of Starsky & Hutch, or the dude from Salem's Lot) played Rick.

Many of Stephen King's works have been remade. Salem's Lot, The Shining, Carrie, etc. The TV version (remake) of The Shining was MUCH closer to the book, creepier in many ways than the big-screen version. It had Steven Weber (whom I like, but who is no Nicholson) in the main role. It's a very different experience from the Nicholson version, and makes MUCH more sense.

One thing I find amusing about some remakes: when they appropriate the author's name but don't use the Author's story. For example: Bram Stoker's Dracula, with Gary Oldman, based its plot on the idea that Mina Harker was the reincarnation of Dracula's wife from 500 years ago. This is nowhere to be found in Bram Stoker's novel, but it WAS in a previous TV movie, also called "Bram Stoker's Dracula," which featured Jack Palance as Dracula. Okay, so the Oldman film was a remake of a made-for TV remake. Even funnier, the idea of a woman in the present being a reincarnation of the Vampire's lover in the past originated in...Dark Shadows.

So the TV remake of Dracula borrowed a main idea from a TV show, and then the big-screen remake of that TV remake borrowed it from there. What I wonder is: did the screenwriters even READ Bram Stoker's original Dracula before making the film?

Also a good example: Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, in which Mowgli is a sexy 30 year old hunk in a loincloth!

I happen to be a Robin Hood fan. Robin Hood was made into a film so early that few people have actually seen any film that can be considered "original."   There are good remakes of this story, and bad remakes. Douglas Fairbanks was good. Errol Flynn was a great film. Patrick Bergin was in a reasonably good version, which came out the same year as Kevin Costner's movie. I disliked Costner's pretty intensely. There was also the 1950s Richard Greene TV series, which has started to come out on DVD.