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Adaptation Do's and Don'ts
forumghost:
Personally I'm not entirely sure that I want there to be an adaptation at all in the current social climate, but if it happens the most important rules would be:
Do- Respect the source material and fan base.
Don't- Use the name to publish your own story that would otherwise never get greenlit because you're a talentless hack and you know it, and then attack fans of the series on social media because they don't like it.
Mr. Mouse:
--- Quote ---Don't- Use the name to publish your own story that would otherwise never get greenlit because you're a talentless hack and you know it, and then attack fans of the series on social media because they don't like it.
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Oh come on, everyone knows Tolkien would be nothing without Peter Jackson and crew rewriting him.
vincentric:
--- Quote from: Mr. Mouse on May 20, 2022, 03:22:26 PM ---Oh come on, everyone knows Tolkien would be nothing without Peter Jackson and crew rewriting him.
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Peter Jackson's LOTR(not the Hobbitt) movies are the model of respecting the source material that every book reproduction should strive for. Yeah, changes were made, but if you watched them without knowing the movie titles, you could identify the source material.
forumghost:
Yeah. Like, there were a lot of changes I didn't like (especially in the Two Towers, you did my boi Faramir dirty PJ).
But it was at least respectful to the original and didn't, say, kill off the MC and have his corpse jacked (Halo). It didn't 'subvert our expectations' by revealing that all the heroes of the past are worthless losers and failures with nothing to offer their OC Donut Steel (Star Wars Sequels). It didn't retcon important lore and story elements for dumb reasons (Wheel of Time, the upcoming Rings of Power).
Quite frankly I dread a Dresden Files TV Series released today.
morriswalters:
Exercise your right to not consume what you don't like. Butcher got full of himself by writing checks he's having a hard time cashing. The series is too long and spans too great a period of time for TV. It isn't finished and he keeps moving the goal posts. Whoever does it would do better to maintain the style and ditch the main story line. As far in as we are there are still unsolved mysteries in the early books and a back story that is important to the series.
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