In 1997, Michael Haneke directed Funny Games. The film was shot in Austria and starred Austrian actors. In 2005, British producer Steve Coen proposed he direct an English language remake: Funny Games U.S., which was released in 2007. In 2011, with Funny Games (Funny!), Mathieu Arbez Hermoso highlighted the boundaries that Michael Haneke chose to respect.
In Funny Games (Funny!), the odd-numbered scenes are from Funny Games, and the even-numbered scenes are from Funny Games U.S. The scenes alternate in this way, without repeating, throughout the entire 107 minutes of the presentation that maintains the unity of the film and underscores the absurdities of a territorial split that has been kept silent.