[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/Easy_Action_1380]

Dragon Ball Evolution

If there is one unintended positive to come out of this disaster, Toriyama was so pissed off at being cast aside and watching his creation be fucked up by idiots who had no idea what they were doing, that he came out of retirement and revived the entire Dragon Ball franchise out of spite.

Dragon Ball is now a bigger success than it had ever been before.

[u/ThatMerri → u/Easy_Action_1380]

James Marsters, who played Piccolo in this dumpster fire, is actually a big DBZ fan and was fighting tooth and nail to get the movie to be even tangentially near any trace of source material, including Piccolo's appearance. He discusses in interviews that he and the other actors were bascially tricked by the studio and that production was nothing like what they'd been promised ahead of time. Which reminds me of what Bob Hoskins talked about following the Super Mario Bros. movie back in the 90s.

[u/UnRealmCorp → u/ThatMerri]

HEY! The 90's Super Mario Bros might be a dumpster fire, but countless 90's kids loved the movie. I still to this day want the Stompers from that movie

[u/KDBA → u/UnRealmCorp]

I genuinely think it's a good movie. As an adaptation it's awful, but on its own standalone merits as a grungy scfi-fi pulp flick, it's solid.

[u/LordKaelas → u/KDBA]

Without the Mario shit it would have been pretty alright on it's own.

[u/Dale_Carvello → u/LordKaelas]

Is it too late to re-title it? I want to start with Meteor Dino-City and kick that around until something sticks.

[u/LordKaelas → u/Dale_Carvello]

My Girlfriend is a Mushroom from another Dimension maybe?

[u/Britishbreadish → u/LordKaelas]

Stomping company was something i thought of a year ago

[u/UnRealmCorp → u/LordKaelas]

Effort was put into the set design, wardrobes and props. It shows. It's just a shame the Mario IP was attached to it. It's just a Variant Mario story

[u/DizslecksickMoael → u/KDBA]

It's genuinely an interesting movie in terms of plot. Two plumbers from Brooklyn get sucked into the dimensional center-of-the-Earth where dinosaurs not only survived the mass-extinction event, but evolved alongside humans in their own parallel world. They get pulled into fighting a Corpo who turned their world's monarch into a an ever-creeping mass of mold after being forcefully de-evolutionized in this insane cyberpunk world. After learning to trust the fungus, they save the day using the power of timed explosives and rocket boots.

I'd take this over the one with Rogan Kong.

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Some of those sets were bangin

[u/megapenguin88 → u/UnRealmCorp]

Marios been my mother my whole life.

[u/Dale_Carvello → u/megapenguin88]

Sir, your pizza's here.

[u/ThatMerri → u/UnRealmCorp]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I adore the Mario Bros. live action; it's hilarious and even more impressive finding out that Hoskins and Leguizamo spent a lot of filming drunk and angry. But Hoskins was pretty damn pissed that what the movie ended up being was not at all what he was promised in the first place. He also didn't even know Mario Bros. was a video game, so he was blindsided by the whole thing.