Question: Billy Jack Goes to Washington is a loose remake of the film that was made by someone who was born where, and is considered the American dream personified?

Context articles: The Return of Billy Jack
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
Jack Goes Boating (film)
City of Angels (film)
House of Wax (2005 film)
The Born Losers
Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)
The Trial of Billy Jack
Runaway Daughters (1994 film)
Frank Capra

The Return of Billy Jack is the unfinished fifth and final film in the Billy Jack movie series.
 The film starred Tom Laughlin (who also directed), reprising his role as Billy Jack, and co-starred Rodney Harvey and Delores Taylor.
 The film was produced from December 1985 to early 1986 in New York City (with some scenes filmed in Central Park), with additional scenes filmed in Toronto.
Billy Jack Goes to Washington is a 1977 film starring Tom Laughlin, the fourth film in the "Billy Jack" series, and although the earlier films saw enormous success, this film did not.
 The film only had limited screenings upon its release and never saw a general theatrical release, but has since become widely available on DVD.
 The film is a loose remake of the 1939 Frank Capra film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".
Jack Goes Boating is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman (in his only career directorial effort) and stars Hoffman in the title role, as well as Amy Ryan, John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega.
 The film's script was written by Robert Glaudini, based on his 2007 play "Jack Goes Boating".
 The film's cast was mostly the same as the cast of the play's premiere at The Public Theater, although Amy Ryan replaced Beth Cole.
 The film was produced by Overture Films and Relativity Media.
 It premiered at the 26th Sundance Film Festival and was later released in the United States on September 17, 2010.
City of Angels is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling and starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.
 Set in Los Angeles, California, the film is a loose remake of Wim Wenders' 1987 film "Wings of Desire" ("Der Himmel über Berlin"), which was set in Berlin.
 As with the original, "City of Angels" tells the story of an angel (Cage) who falls in love with a mortal woman (Ryan), and wishes to become human in order to be with her.
 With the guidance of a man (Dennis Franz) who has already made the transition from immortality, the angel falls and discovers the human experience.
House of Wax (originally titled Wax House, Baby) is a 2005 horror thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and stars Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams and Robert Ri'chard.
 It is based on a story by Charles Belden.
 It is a loose remake of the 1953 film of the same name, itself a remake of the 1933 movie "Mystery of the Wax Museum".
 The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released in US theaters on May 6, 2005.
Born Losers is a 1968 action film and the first of the Billy Jack movies.
 The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half-Indian Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack.
 Since 1954 Laughlin had been trying to produce his "Billy Jack" script about discrimination toward American Indians.
 In 1968 he decided to introduce the Billy Jack character in a quickly written script designed to capitalize on the then-popular trend in motorcycle gang movies.
 The story was based on a real incident from 1964 where members of the Hells Angels were arrested for raping five teenage girls in Monterey, California.
Virgil Riley Runnels Jr. (October 12, 1945 – June 11, 2015), better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who most notably worked for the National Wrestling Alliance, Jim Crockett Promotions, and the World Wrestling Federation, later known as the WWE.
 Following his retirement from wrestling, he made occasional on-air appearances on WWE television and pay-per-views and worked as a backstage booker and producer in WWE's NXT developmental territory.
 Billed as "the son of a plumber", Rhodes did not have a typical wrestler's physique; his character was that of the "Common Man", known for the personality exhibited in his interviews.
 WWE chairman Vince McMahon remarked that no wrestler "personified the essence of charisma quite like Dusty Rhodes".
The Trial of Billy Jack is a 1974 film starring Delores Taylor and Tom Laughlin.
 It is the sequel to the 1971 film "Billy Jack" and the third film overall in the series.
 Although commercially successful, it was panned by critics.
 The film was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
 Directed by Laughlin, it has a running time of nearly three hours.
Runaway Daughters is a 1994 television film directed by Joe Dante that originally aired on the cable television network Showtime as part of the anthology series "Rebel Highway".
 It is a loose remake of an American International Pictures production from 1956, the year in which both the original and the remake are set.
 Much of the cast of Dante's "The Howling" is reunited on this film, including Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace, Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, and Belinda Balaski.
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.
 Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American dream personified."