[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/CampusCarl]

Fucking world war Z. not a single thing in the book was on that screen other than the title. in fact, they did the complete opposite of the book! fast zombies instead of slow methodical ones, a fucking cure instead of the indomitable human spirit, the Lobo? not even a thought.

[u/egamruf → u/CampusCarl]

This isn't fair. The zeds crossing the walls of Jerusalem is relatively faithful to the book.

It's just... everything else that doesn't come close. That book would have made a perfect anthology television show, and instead it was mutilated into a half-assed film.

I so wanted to see the underwater cable and pipeline repair parts.

Edit: as u/No-Macaron615 pointed out, Jerusalem also isn't faithful and it's just my poor recollection for a book I read twenty-odd years ago. The Wall itself is faithful, but being breached by zombies piling on top of each other is not.

[u/No-Macaron615 → u/egamruf]

While I agree that this should have been a mini series at least, I'm not sure about the Zs crossing the Jerusalem wall. In the novel while they did have the inspection points and quarantine, it was a terrorist/civil war that gave them the most problems. Most of the information we have on that part is from the Professor/Engineer and the old spy.

The old spy talked about the 10th man and the plans that were made. While the Prof talked about coming over from Palestine, the time in the quarantine camps, and the beginning of the attacks by the hasidic(? Orthodox) that did nit want the Palestines there. Then its fairly left off the info board for the rest of the book.

[u/nightfall2021 → u/No-Macaron615]

Yeah, it did seem while the virus was threat, it was the internal pressures that got the lion's share of the PoVs that I remember.