5. Maleficent (2014)
While Alice in Wonderland may have really gotten the ball rolling on these remakes, Angelina Jolie’s turn as Maleficent is where the trend solidified. With this film, not only did you have that megastar, you had a film that added to the mythology of the original. She’s a villain who changes and we get to see her from a whole new perspective. That’s what these movies do best, and few do it as well as Maleficent.
