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by dragonwriter 4660 days ago
> Due to the increasing popularity of casual dining and the decreasing accessibility of Danish nobility, I've rewritten Hamlet to be an Appleby's assistant manager.

Replace "casual dining" with "megacorporations" and you get an actual movie made in 2000 [1]. And, of course, that example is not unique [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171359/

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114279/

[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/

[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184791/

[5] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265713/

[6] et cetera

[7] et cetera

[8] et cetera

[9] ad nauseum

[10] ad infinitum