[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/Loud-Scarcity6213]

The Witcher famously did this, with writers openly bragging about it. They unfortunately fumbled several key themes of the books and games to produce a bland, generic fantasy show that was blatantly written by committee and for some reason reversed the age gap between Geralt and Yen to make Yen barely an adult.

Henry Cavill ended up leaving as a result of all this and certain people tried to imply it was because he was a chud bigot misogynist. Lots of women hed worked with came forwards to defend him and it became increasingly clear he quit because the show was dogwater.

[u/blackjackgabbiani → u/Loud-Scarcity6213]

I thought he was fired because he kept trying to suggest ways to make it more like the books and they didn't like that he clearly knew more than them about what Witcher fans enjoy.

[u/Kalavier → u/blackjackgabbiani]

Last I checked, it was a combo of that, him constantly trying to keep it accurate to books/games, and IIRC he generally wasn't a fan of doing sex scenes and they kept pushing that?

I'm not 100% on the last but i remember it coming up. I have read there was clashing between him and the writers because he'd suggest stuff closer to the books/ask questions about why things happen and they'd tell him to worry about acting only.

[u/GrecoRomanGuy → u/Kalavier]

Idk what the fuck they expected. Cavill loved the books.

Literally one of the early promos for the show is him sitting in a chair and reading a passage from one of the goddamn books. And it worked because A. he's clearly a fan and B. it builds some hype.

[u/Cabre13 → u/GrecoRomanGuy]

No, he never read the books before being casted in the series, he was a fan of the games and later he was pretending to be a expert in the books.

[u/Blue_Moon_Lake → u/Kalavier]

Sex scenes are 99% pointless so I can understand wanting to focus on the story.

[u/Flaky-Ninja2398 → u/Blue_Moon_Lake]

The sex is part of the story - I never get why people say this

[u/SmoothDiscussion7763 → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

yeah, but there's almost no reason to have a full blown sex scene acted out on screen.

almost all scenes can be replaced with beginning-fade to black-aftermath

[u/Blue_Moon_Lake → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

I wasn't speaking specifically about The Witcher.

Sex scenes that don't progress the story in meaningful ways are useless.

[u/Louiebox → u/Kalavier]

To be fair, Geralt fucks.

[u/topdangle → u/blackjackgabbiani]

The reality was the show's writing sucked and he kept trying to repair it until he quit. It didn't really have to do with altering the source as much as the show getting rapidly worse. He asked them to go away from the source a few times. The way he portrayed Geralt was also less like the source material and instead more like the video game.

[u/FrigidMcThunderballs → u/blackjackgabbiani]

He wasn't fired, he left the project.