[allmendream]

I am unsure if another movie adaptation of a famous novel is really a movie “remake”. Unless they took the screenplay and remade it.

If it was written to be a movie - it was a movie - then a decade or more later they decide to re-make the movie - THAT is a remake.

A different adaptation of a beloved novel - not so much.

As to those citing SEQUELS - well what can be said about being unclear on the concept?

[Family Guy]

You're right. Another movie adaptation of a famous novel should probably not be considered a remake.

OK, here are a couple of remakes where the remake is better in many ways than the original, but the original still has good qualities that the remakes have lost. I like to watch both the original and the remake because I get different things from them.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

and

The Ring (Ringu)