The 6 best fan-made trailer reshoots on YouTube

A few amateur filmmakers have created an impressive shot-for-shot remake of the Iron Man 3 trailer, adding to a list that includes The Hobbit, Inception, and more

Amateur filmmakers recreate The Avengers trailer with their version of Capital America's awaiting uniform.
(Image credit: YouTube)

In 2006, Michel Gondry's film Be Kind Rewind introduced the idea of "sweding," which SwededMovies.org defines as "the summarized recreation of popular pop-culture films using limited budgets and a camcorder." (In Gondry's movie, two characters remake all the movies in a video rental joint after the originals get accidentally erased, and tell the customers that the new versions are from Sweden.) In the years since, budding filmmakers and movie fans have taken up Gondry's challenge, recreating popular movie scenes and trailers with an ingenious blend of amateur acting, a capella music, and action scenes using cardboard and toys. The latest example? A shot-for-shot reimagining of the Iron Man 3 trailer, complete with corrugated Iron Man armor and a devastating attack on a cardboard box by a toy helicopter. Here, the fan remake of the Iron Man 3 trailer, and five other brilliant sweded trailers:

1. Iron Man 3

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