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Buttery Jeb wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 9:15 pm Also in July:
A Man Named Rocca (1961) 2021 4K Restoration by StudioCanal
La Scoumoune (1972)

Was surprised to see that La Scoumoune is actually a remake of Becker’s Rocca directed by the source novel’s author Jose Giovanni, and with Belmondo playing the same role in both, about ten years apart… what other movies have been remade but retained the actor(s)?

Not counting things like Bottle Rocket?

Nah, I think shorts that get expanded / remade into features are their own thing

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Death at a Funeral (Peter Dinklage)
Abre los ojos/Vanilla Sky (Penelope Cruz)

swo17 wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 7:57 pm
Death at a Funeral (Peter Dinklage)

Both versions have him! I assume this is the Frank Oz original and not Neil LaBute’s

A small part as Lector's guard, but Frankie Faison played the same role in Manhunter and Red Dragon.

Gerard Depardieu in both the French and US remake of 'My Father the Hero'

Jean Reno and Christian Clavier in Les Visiteurs and Just Visiting (haven't seen either of these, so I don't know if they play the same characters with different names or different characters)

beamish14 wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 9:19 pm

swo17 wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 7:57 pm
Death at a Funeral (Peter Dinklage)

Both versions have him! I assume this is the Frank Oz original and not Neil LaBute’s

Dinklage plays the same character (though with different names) in both the Oz original and the LaBute remake.

...or wait, did you think my post was a list of upcoming Kino announcements? I was just responding to domino's question

swo17 wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 9:26 pm

beamish14 wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 9:19 pm

swo17 wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 7:57 pm
Death at a Funeral (Peter Dinklage)

Both versions have him! I assume this is the Frank Oz original and not Neil LaBute’s

Dinklage plays the same character (though with different names) in both the Oz original and the LaBute remake.

...or wait, did you think my post was a list of upcoming Kino announcements? I was just responding to domino's question

Correct, I thought these were new announcements!

LaBute's Death at a Funeral was a lot of fun, if I recall correctly. Would love to see that and/or Lakeview Terrace announced when Kino runs out of other bullshit to put out.

"other bullshit" does that mean you think Death at a Funeral is also bullshit?...some strange sort of superior...bullshit?

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 7:39 pm what other movies have been remade but retained the actor(s)?

The King of Burlesque / Hello, Frisco, Hello - Alice Faye
Holiday (1930)/(1938) - Edward Everett Horton
Red Dust / Mogambo - Clark Gable
Thunderball / Never Say Never Again - Sean Connery

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 7:39 pm

Buttery Jeb wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 9:15 pm Also in July:
A Man Named Rocca (1961) 2021 4K Restoration by StudioCanal
La Scoumoune (1972)

Was surprised to see that La Scoumoune is actually a remake of Becker’s Rocca directed by the source novel’s author Jose Giovanni, and with Belmondo playing the same role in both, about ten years apart… what other movies have been remade but retained the actor(s)?

Michael Caine isn’t the same character in both, but he notably appears in both versions of Sleuth and Get Carter

Takako Fuiji (Kayako) & Yuya Ozeki (Toshio) in both Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) & it’s 2004 US remake.

Alan Hale Sr. played Little John in both the Fairbanks and Flynn Robin Hoods (and once more in the "unofficial" sequel Rogues of Sherwood Forest). Lon Chaney and Harry Earles reprised their roles in the talkie remake of The Unholy Three, as did George and Florence Arliss in the 1929 Disraeli.

The Golem (1915)/(1920) - Paul Wegener
The Lodger (1927)/(1932) - Ivor Novello
The Lion King (1994)/(2019) - James Earl Jones

Not the same role, but Patty Duke of course played Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and later played Anne Sullivan in a TV remake.

Brigitte Helm starred in a 1928 silent version of Alraune and then in a 1930 sound remake. She also starred in the German and French language versions of Gloria (1931) by different directors. These different language versions of films from the early days of the sound era are the most common reason why the same actors were cast in remakes, provided they spoke the language. However, as with Dracula, the cast was often swapped out entirely.

Ingrid Bergman's 1939 Hollywood debut was in a remake of her breakthrough role in the Swedish melodrama Intermezzo from 1936. However, when Bergman's A Woman's Face (1938) was remade by Hollywood in 1941, they cast Joan Crawford.

In the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Kevin McCarthy still tries to warn the world of the pod menace, and we are to understand that he is playing the same character from the 1956 movie.

Penelope Cruz in Abre los Ojos and Vanilla Sky

TimeCode, if you count the early take of the film contained on the DVD along with the final one as both having merit, rather than being a dress rehearsal for the last version shot. The only major incident of 'recasting' on display there is that Laurie Metcalfe is the Therapist in the opening section, who is played by Glenne Headley in the final take, just because of who was playing the role on the particular day.