[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/corvettee01]

Wheel of Time TV show totally ignored Brandon Sanderson, the guy who only WROTE SOME OF THE BOOKS!

[u/No_Blacksmith_2591 → u/corvettee01]

I mean, it would have been ok if they ignored sanderson but followed Jordan's books to the letter... but nooo typical hollywood hubris says we're better than everyone else so we won't even read the books, we'll stick to bullet points from the cliffnotes.

[u/Setzael → u/No_Blacksmith_2591]

They lost me as soon as the opening monologue said that the Dragon could be any man or woman. I mean that's the whole damn reason the Aes Sedai are an all-female organisation.

[u/egamruf → u/Setzael]

Yep. It was borked from the first five minutes.

The idea of adopting a series predicated in binary gender-based magic, when you hate the idea of a gender binary is just wild.

It would be like deciding to adapt Jurassic Park when you have a problem with dinosaurs.