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?
How the World Remade Hollywood uncovers the little-known stories of the crafty filmmakers who created an Italian 007 film starring Sean Connery’s tradesman brother, made a Turkish space opera by stealing a print of Star Wars for its effects footage, and transported a full-fledged Terminator to the present day—not from a post-apocalyptic future, but from the vibrant mythology of Indonesia. These tales reveal more than just imitations—they show the fascinating ways ideas evolve as they cross cultural borders.
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