How the World Remade Hollywood
2022 · BOOK
By Ed Glaser
For decades, filmmakers around the world have been remaking Hollywood movies in wildly creative ways. They’ve chronicled a singing and dancing Hannibal Lecter in India, star-crossed lovers aboard the doomed Nigerian ship Titanic, a Japanese expedition to the planet of the apes, and an uncivil war in Turkey between Captain America and a mobbed-up Spider-Man. Recently, thanks to cherry-picked YouTube clips, these films have begun to resurface—but why and how were they made in the first place?
Drawing on years of research into international film history, How the World Remade Hollywood uncovers the stories behind these remarkable productions and the filmmakers who created them. From an Italian 007 film starring Sean Connery’s tradesman brother to a Turkish space opera assembled from stolen Star Wars footage, the book explores how familiar stories were transformed as they crossed cultural, political, and economic boundaries. The result is a global history of cinema viewed through some of its strangest, most inventive, and most overlooked creations.
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