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Same Bones

Remake workbench

Same bones, new skin.

Remakes and adaptations are everywhere this season - games into films, films into series, old novels into new miniseries. The good ones keep what makes a story work and rebuild everything else. Put a story you love on the lightbox, name a new setting, and see which parts transfer, which must be translated and which must be replaced - then find out whether your pitch is a real remake or a reskin.

Try a film:

The case file

Or drop a .txt or .md file of notes here -

      The lightbox

      • transfer - keep it, human nature
      • translate - same job, new world's version
      • replace - bound to its time, invent anew

        The page's sort is a keyword guess. Tap a kind to change it - your sort goes with the run.

        X-ray it

        Names the core appeal, the job each bone does and its new form in your setting, the pressures the setting adds, a logline and the risks to watch.

        Take it with you

        Your films