Did You Know These Classic Films Were All Remakes?

Poseidon

With legends as fascinating as the greek gods, expect a lot of potential remakes. Poseidon is a 2006 ocean survival thriller, but it first got the film treatment back in 1972. It had an admittedly very unique plot, but the latter still consider the 2006 version to be a recreation of the original. 

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The More You Know

  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for.
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio did not do the drawing in ‘Titanic’
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