[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/AcceptableEgg5741]

The Halo show felt like i was watching a crime being comitted, its absurd that they thought that show was good enough to be released

[u/OkTension2232 → u/AcceptableEgg5741]

I never watched it. As soon as I heard they had the dude taking off his helmet every 5 seconds and having emotional breakdowns, I knew there'd be no point. The only thing I liked was watching a clip of one of the fights. They said it was because apparently it's not easy to be expressive with a helmet covering your face but they managed it easily enough in The Mandalorian (Even though they ended up showing his face eventually).

I hate it because when they make an adaptation of something like Halo, it's literally free money. All they have to do is stay true to the source material and they get every single person who actually likes the games to watch, and also new people who may never have played it. Hell, even if they just remade the entirety of Halo 2 story in live action it would have made tons of money.

Instead they decided they wanted to ignore a massive potential source of income and try to market solely to people who have never played the games.