Are Videogames Remakes of Movies?

[leunas]

The journal The Velvet LIght Trap recently released a call for papers for a special issue about remakes. That got me thinking about the recent trend of making videogames based on old movies. Just this year games based on, The Godfather, The Warriors, Jaws, and Scarface have been released -- and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. What are these games? Since the call for papers asked for papers about remakes, the question that popped to my head was, "Are these remakes?" In some cases, they are sequels. In other cases they are side stories. Can a story taken from one medium and made in another even be a remake -- that is to say, are adaptations different things than remakes? Must a remake be in the same medium as the original? Is a film of Romeo and Juliet a remake? I'm not sure. Any thoughts?


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