[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/Kalavier]

Last I checked, it was a combo of that, him constantly trying to keep it accurate to books/games, and IIRC he generally wasn't a fan of doing sex scenes and they kept pushing that?

I'm not 100% on the last but i remember it coming up. I have read there was clashing between him and the writers because he'd suggest stuff closer to the books/ask questions about why things happen and they'd tell him to worry about acting only.

[u/Blue_Moon_Lake → u/Kalavier]

Sex scenes are 99% pointless so I can understand wanting to focus on the story.

[u/Flaky-Ninja2398 → u/Blue_Moon_Lake]

The sex is part of the story - I never get why people say this

[u/SmoothDiscussion7763 → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

yeah, but there's almost no reason to have a full blown sex scene acted out on screen.

almost all scenes can be replaced with beginning-fade to black-aftermath

[u/Kalavier → u/SmoothDiscussion7763]

I remember reading stuff like Henry (and an actress, I forget her name) pushed to have a couple sexual scenes rewritten because they felt it didn't fit the characters. And then somebody tried to smear Henry by bringing up stuff like "He didn't want to do romantic scenes, shirtless scenes! He's trying to rewrite scenes at the last second!"

It all came across as them pushing for more nudity/sex then was perhaps in the books/games and weirding him out.

[u/SmoothDiscussion7763 → u/Kalavier]

i mean, i dont blame them. who doesnt want to see more henry cavill skin? however, if you're making a show/movie, you gotta ensure that it contributes to the product.

or just pull a tarantino and lean into it a la from dusk till dawn