Soylent Green for a modern audience
Occasionally, there's talk of remaking Soylent Green. Of course, the film's twist ending that the titular substance, a last-ditch effort to feed an overpopulated planet when the oceans have died, is actually made of people, can't really be reproduced. (Witness what happened when Tim Burton remade Planet of the Apes and tried to go for a twist.)
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