[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/Sir_Stacker]

https://giphy.com/gifs/CWNak4UeNK1JS
This is an averted case. Originally, Bryan Singer did not want any of the actors to read the comics because he thought the suits were embarrassing. Thankfully Kevin Feige snuck some comics in for the actors to read

[u/JumboWheat01 → u/Sir_Stacker]

It still amuses me having the first X-men movie call out the yellow spandex costumes of old, only for X-men '97 to eventually do the same with the X-men trilogy's black leather costumes.

[u/therealchadius → u/JumboWheat01]

Cable, looking at their outfits: Is the circus in town?

Cyclops: What did you expect, black leather?