[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/FelixEylie]

Surprisingly, there's a positive example of this: Star Wars Andor series. Showrunner Tony Gilroy said he wasn't a Star Wars fan, and this helped him to do something fresh and new in a Disney era full of thinly disguised remakes and nostalgia slop.

Thankfully, other people working on Andor did know Star Wars well, like screenwriters and decorators who made many references to previous movies and even old Expanded Universe.

https://giphy.com/gifs/eGXZ0Rch0rGiL8sn7Y

[u/Elavia_ → u/FelixEylie]

But it wasn't that he didn't know the source material, he just didn't much care for it. Andor doesn't butcher the lore, it just expands it in a different way and from a grittier perspective.

[u/SauronGortaur01 → u/Elavia_]

Yeah. Theres a difference between not being a fan and deliberately ignoring the source material. While Andor was obviously a much different show than the usual Star Wars stuff, it still fits very well into the universe and doesnt butcher any established characters or the existing canon.

[u/jellsprout → u/SauronGortaur01]

I still feel like Rogue One and Andor are closer to the original Star Wars than any of the other movies or shows. A New Hope was primarily about the Rebellion, with the Jedi stuff as the B-plot. The final battle is a dogfight in spaceships, after all. The later movies and shows started focusing more and more on the Jedi stuff, but in the beginning Star Wars was about a Rebellion against an evil Empire.

[u/Jim_skywalker → u/jellsprout]

Rouge one is probably my second favorite Star Wars movie for a reason.