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37 Promised Remakes of Documentaries That Still Haven’t Happened

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 17, 2015
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Hollywood loves to remake documentaries because “directors of docs are allowing so much drama to be put into their stories that you experience them like a narrative.” That’s a ridiculously redundant reasoning from Focus Features acquisitions president Lia Buman in a new Hollywood Reporter article on the subject. It got me thinking that this old list is …

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