Solo4114
Master Member
Except that reboots and remakes are subtly different.
A remake takes the existing story, and retells it while retaining a fair portion of what was in the original. For example:
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Are there differences between the two? Yes, but it's basically the same story.
A reboot, on the other hand, need not hew as closely to the original material, and may, in fact, intentionally ignore or "overwrite" the original material. For example:
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Reboots may still include much of the original material -- or the material on which the original was based -- but aren't as closely tied to the original. So, Batman Begins has basically nothing to do with Batman '89, which itself has nothing to do with >ZOT!< the Adam West Batman from the 60s. By contrast, a remake might have taken the same basic plot and made it "more serious" or something. Instead, we have a total departure from the "original."
