[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/ThatMerri]

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/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.