16 Movies That Owe Their Existence To Other Films

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Actors are well-known for inter-marrying and producing offspring. It's the Hollywood way. But as it turns out, movies themselves have a way of breeding, too. New movie ideas are hatched from the bowels of other movies all the time. And we're not just talking about sequels and spinoffs.

There are a ton of movies that owe their existence to other movies. Or at least a Father's Day card.

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GREMLINS Director Joe Dante pored over Frank Capra's iconic It's A Wonderful Life and decided that It was the exact spirit he wanted for Gremlins; a h

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A CRACKED OON MILLIIN WAYS WEST TO DIE IN THE Seth McFarlane was watching Hang Em High (1968) when he began joking to his writers about how depressing

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Ben Stiller got the idea for Tropic Thunder while he was working on Empire of the Sun. A number of his castmates were getting roles in war movies, and

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Director Christopher Nolan wanted to create empathy inthe audience towards the plighto of the soldiers by focusing on visual storytelling and suspense

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Will Smith got the idea for A FTER EARTH from the TV show I Shouldn't Be Alive. tiscOVERY SHOULDN'T CHANNEL BE AILL'Ve It was originally intended to b

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16 Movies That Owe Their Existence To Other Films

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Director Ari Aster was going through a horrible breakup when he was offered to direct Midsommar. So he modeled his latest folk horror after breakup mo

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HEREDITARY Ari Aster cited the theme of family breakdown and emotional brutality in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From A Marriage as one of the influences i

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Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment, got the idea for the show Lost after he watched the movie Cast Away. CAST AWAY

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CRACKED.COM In 2010's Buried, Ryan Reynolds plays Paul Conroy, a US citizen working in Iraq who wakes up trapped in a coffin. The entire film takes pl

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Christopher Nolan has said that Inception was very much inspired by the James Bond movies.

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The RObocop writer got the idea by working his a*s off on the Blade Runner set. Edward Neumeier worked in the Blade Runner art department, making garb

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T H E FAVOURITE Director Yorgos Lanthimos was inspired by the quick back and forth bickering between Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple

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The Shape of Water came about because six-year-old Guillermo del Toro didn't like a movie's ending. At six, del Toro saw the 1954 monster movie Creatu

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Joel Silver said tHat the Wachowskis had showed him the anime Ghost in the Shell to give him an idea of what they wanted to achieve with The Matrix. s