Remake

A remake is a new production that re-creates an earlier work, typically preserving its core premise, characters, and setting but updating elements such as visuals, technology, and performance to appeal to contemporary audiences.

Remakes can occur across media—films, television, video games, literature—and differ from reboots (which restart a franchise with new continuity) and remasters (which upgrade assets without substantial changes to structure or story). A remake usually aims to yield a faithful or reimagined version within the same medium; it may alter tone, setting, or details.

Film remakes have a long history, including Psycho (1998), a near shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film; The Ring (2002), an American remake of the Japanese Ringu; True Grit (2010), by the Coen brothers; Let Me In (2010), an adaptation of Let the Right One In.

Video game remakes include Resident Evil (2002) by Capcom, a rebuilt version of the 1996 game with modernized visuals and gameplay; Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020), which reimagines the original JRPG while expanding its story across multiple parts.

Reception to remakes varies, with some praised for technical achievement or fresh interpretation and others criticized for redundancy or eroding originality.