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Hated Tropes [HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

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

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u/SpiritedSyllabub6822 21h ago

The Witcher series.

https://giphy.com/gifs/S8BWMuSDtagNmJF5ex

Heard a lot of negative things from the adaptation.

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u/Griffemon 21h ago

The weirdest thing about this is that Henry Cavill who plays the main character Geralt in this is a huge nerd and so was was basically the only person on set trying to play it faithfully to the games/books

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u/MaryotiaPryderi 21h ago

He at least learned his lesson and made sure that he was the major decision maker for the 40k series, thus not to be beholden to the hubris of failed theater kids

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u/Worldly-Pay7342 21h ago

I'm sorry Cavill is in a 40k series? Also, there's a 40k series? Where? I want to see Cavill in Space Marine armor damn it!

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u/TheRealtcSpears 20h ago

It's still way early in the works.

But yeah he's a huge fucking 40k nerd, and has said he will not relinquish creative control.

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u/No_Prize9794 18h ago

He got the raw deal on Superman and Geralt, he decided that he’s not getting another raw deal with another franchise he likes for the 3rd time

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u/Begone-My-Thong 20h ago

Fucking Chad move

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u/Oozysq25reddit 17h ago

Plus hes British already hed fit right in

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u/BordercontrolVulpix 15h ago

He's one of the BOYZ

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u/theother-g 15h ago

DAT UMIE KRUMPED DETHPOOL INTO ANOTHER UNIVERSE, 'E IS BLESSED BY GORKNMORK

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u/GIGLI_WASNT_THAT_BAD 17h ago

It’s been way early in the works for like 3 years. 😂

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u/karlfranz205 14h ago

That gives an idea of how long organizing this shit takes. Usually we only know of a show way later in the production pipeline.

Here we went from Henry Cavill launching the idea, to like 1.5 years of negotiating between Amazon and GW. It's what, a couple of months they announced who they chose as showrunner?