I’ve heard the term ‘remake’ for as long as I have been watching movies. It usually comes out in discussions as “did you hear they’re remaking [old movie]?”, followed by a groan of discontent by those listening. One would think that with all the complaining and generally negative criticisms people give to remakes that movie studios would get the hint and stop making them. However, remakes and reboots aren’t always terrible and often times breathe life into dead stories and franchises, as we saw this May with ‘Star Trek’. Rarely do I hear people say a movie is being ‘reimagined’ usually it gets tossed in under the ‘remake’ category and it wasn’t until this past year that the term ‘reboot’ became the pop word for dead franchises. So what exactly is the difference between the three terms?

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