It’s not too often a director gets to (or even wants to) remake their own film. Aside from Hitchcock, only a few have dared such a feat, but recently Dreamworks gave fast-rising Ken Scott that opportunity.

If you live near an arthouse or a box theater that features indie films, there is a good chance Ken Scott’s film Starbuck recently made an appearance on the local silver screen. Released originally in 2011, the comedy effort about a man who learns he fathered over 500 children as a sperm donor earlier in his life, a portion of whom want to know his true identity, just completed its initial theatrical run here in the states. You might think that means that remake teased in the headline is years away, but that is in fact the exact opposite of the truth.

This morning, Dreamworks released the first trailer for Ken Scott’s new film, Delivery Man. The film follows a man who fathered hundreds of children as a sperm donor earlier in life, a portion of whom want to know his true identity. Other than the title change and the replacement of up and coming actors with the likes of Vince Vaughn and Chris Pratt, the film is exactly the same. You can view the trailer for both films below.

While I am happy people are recognizing the hilarity of Scott’s work, it’s a shame he has to remake a film that already works so well. I hope he at least managed to work the top billed cast from the original into the remake, but it does not seem that is the case from the information and footage that has been made available thus far.

Delivery Man opens November 22.

Synopsis: From DreamWorks Pictures comes “Delivery Man,” the story of affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn’t look worse for David when he is hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twenty-somethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the father he could become as well.

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