Which film has been re-made the quickest?

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Inspired by the thread about Robocop being (possibly) re-made just 18 years after the original (it may seem a long time, but Robocop was a high-profile blockbuster at the time, not a little known sleeper hit) I was wondering which film has been similarly re-made quite quickly when the original is still fresh.
I'm thinking of direct English language to English re-makes (i.e. no European or Asian films which are frequently re-made within a couple of years).
 
Manhunter made in 1986, remade as Red Dragon in 2002 - 16 years later.

Also, a bit before my time, Beau Geste 1926 - remade 1939 (and again in 1966).
 
I think in the 1950s, film studios made a habit of making a version of something that their rivals had done a couple of years before. Of course, I can't think of any examples at the moment, but it was usually adaptations of books.
 
It would be interesting to see the time between remakes of original screenplays.

Films adapted from novels have been remade many times, such as popular horror like Frankenstein and Dracula (13 years between John Badham's 1979 version of Dracula and Francis Coppola's 1992 version, for example) or classic work like Dickens (Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol spring to mind) and, of course, Shakespeare.

It's debatable whether you can call book adaptations remakes; you could argue that they're just reinterpretations of the source novel.

But now I'm racking my brain trying to think of a remake that hasn't been originally adapted from a novel or a play.

Dawn of the Dead comes to mind, but that was 26 years between the original and the remake; likewise the remake of Romero's original Night of the Living Dead and its remake were 22 years apart. Perhaps I should try thinking of something other than horror films...
 
Are we counting Hollywood remakes of foreign films? Cos:

Abre Los Ojos (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001)
Ringu (1998), The Ring (2002)
Mon pere ce hero (1991), My Father the Hero (1994)

And I'm sure there are lots more.
 
Bah! I can't remember it's name (typical), but I'm sure that there was a Bollywood film not so long back that was remade only a week after the final cut because 'test' audiences expressed disgust at the female lead. The reshoot lasted longer than the actual original filming with the female lead replaced by a man!
 
How about the new Exorcist prequel. Someone at the studio didn't like it, so new director brought in and a remake was made! Think BOTH versions will be coming out too if internet gossip is to be believed!
 
the ring movies.. japanese and english versions made only a couple years apart. same goes for juon the grudge... the guy who made the japanese grudge version also made the english version. he actually made several versions in japanese. he is supposedly obsessed with it, and keeps remaking it.

also.. willy wonka..... i guess that was long enough ago though... can't wait for the new one this summer!
 
I think there's been a version of Frankenstien every decade since the 1900s.

Apart from that: the crap US version of The Vanishing followed hot on the heels of the original.
 
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