[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/SpiritedSyllabub6822]

The Witcher series.

https://giphy.com/gifs/S8BWMuSDtagNmJF5ex

Heard a lot of negative things from the adaptation.

[u/Griffemon → u/SpiritedSyllabub6822]

The weirdest thing about this is that Henry Cavill who plays the main character Geralt in this is a huge nerd and so was was basically the only person on set trying to play it faithfully to the games/books

[u/MaryotiaPryderi → u/Griffemon]

He at least learned his lesson and made sure that he was the major decision maker for the 40k series, thus not to be beholden to the hubris of failed theater kids

[u/Worldly-Pay7342 → u/MaryotiaPryderi]

I'm sorry Cavill is in a 40k series? Also, there's a 40k series? Where? I want to see Cavill in Space Marine armor damn it!

[u/TheRealtcSpears → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

It's still way early in the works.

But yeah he's a huge fucking 40k nerd, and has said he will not relinquish creative control.

[u/No_Prize9794 → u/TheRealtcSpears]

He got the raw deal on Superman and Geralt, he decided that he’s not getting another raw deal with another franchise he likes for the 3rd time

[u/Begone-My-Thong → u/TheRealtcSpears]

Fucking Chad move

[u/Oozysq25reddit → u/TheRealtcSpears]

Plus hes British already hed fit right in

[u/BordercontrolVulpix → u/Oozysq25reddit]

He's one of the BOYZ

[u/theother-g → u/BordercontrolVulpix]

DAT UMIE KRUMPED DETHPOOL INTO ANOTHER UNIVERSE, 'E IS BLESSED BY GORKNMORK

[u/GIGLI_WASNT_THAT_BAD → u/TheRealtcSpears]

It’s been way early in the works for like 3 years. 😂

[u/karlfranz205 → u/GIGLI_WASNT_THAT_BAD]

That gives an idea of how long organizing this shit takes. Usually we only know of a show way later in the production pipeline.

Here we went from Henry Cavill launching the idea, to like 1.5 years of negotiating between Amazon and GW. It's what, a couple of months they announced who they chose as showrunner?

[u/FlutterKree → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

I want to see Cavill in Space Marine armor damn it!

More likely a Commissar outfit.

[u/AydonusG → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

Cavill was the spearhead for the show to exist, and a few weeks back he mentioned Blur doing Deathmarch as Secret Level S2, Mike Flanagan writing Cavill's show, and Charlie Chaplin's production company producing it. (Untitled Artists)

[u/loscapos5 → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

There are a few, like that one about the blood angels, Kill Lupercal or Hammer & Bolter.

There is also that Secret level episode about Titus from SpaceMarine, made by the guy who made Astartes.

But related to Cavill, nothing yet. He and Games Workshop made a deal with Amazon to deliver a 40k series under their control, to avoid another Rings of Power/The Witcher situation, but they are all moving in secrecy

[u/Silly_Double408 → u/Worldly-Pay7342]

Still in the works.. also I think i saw there going with animation and not real life. I hope that's true becuase theres no way they could do 40k any justice with live action. Because of the cost of cgi it would be reduced to a soap opera with talk talk talk and most of the action stuff written out. Kinda how they completely wrote Appa out of the show in the live action ATAB. He has like 1 animated scene and its a puppet head only in others.. obviously a money decision. lame...very lame.

[u/CantCatchMeSpez → u/Silly_Double408]

You can do it justice with live action CGI. You'd just need the budget of a mainline Marvel movie, which they will definitely not have.

[u/FlutterKree → u/CantCatchMeSpez]

You'd just need the budget of a mainline Marvel movie, which they will definitely not have.

It's being backed by Amazon money.

Which means it could go either way in terms of how good it is. Amazon has Rings of Power. But they also have Fallout.