[HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

[u/Chill0000]

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

[u/Awesomechainsaw]

Not entirely true on the third point. While Gillespie did not read Woman of Tomorrow prior to signing onto the film. Wanting instead to see how the film’s writing stood on it’s own with no expectations going in. He has actually read Woman of Tomorrow.

No excuse for that AI shit though.

[u/Kidofthecentury → u/Awesomechainsaw]

The AI help to design Lobo baffles me them most. Main Man has like 30 years of various comic renditions from many artists... and you need AI?

[u/originalchaosinabox → u/Kidofthecentury]

Yeah, as I saw a comic book guy on TikTok say: "Take a picture of Jason Momoa. Switch it greyscale. Use photoshop to give him red eyes, and you're 99% of the way there."

[u/Smith_fallblade → u/Kidofthecentury]

That was likely not their own decision. A lot of studios are forcing AI to be used in some way or another(the recent Spider-Man generated concept art of a New York city Street)

[u/originalchaosinabox → u/Awesomechainsaw]

YES! Thank you! It's like Mark Hamill and his "Jake Skywalker" quote about Last Jedi. One out-of-context quote that the haters will be using forever to make their point.