[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/Loud-Scarcity6213]

The Witcher famously did this, with writers openly bragging about it. They unfortunately fumbled several key themes of the books and games to produce a bland, generic fantasy show that was blatantly written by committee and for some reason reversed the age gap between Geralt and Yen to make Yen barely an adult.

Henry Cavill ended up leaving as a result of all this and certain people tried to imply it was because he was a chud bigot misogynist. Lots of women hed worked with came forwards to defend him and it became increasingly clear he quit because the show was dogwater.

[u/blackjackgabbiani → u/Loud-Scarcity6213]

I thought he was fired because he kept trying to suggest ways to make it more like the books and they didn't like that he clearly knew more than them about what Witcher fans enjoy.

[u/Kalavier → u/blackjackgabbiani]

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/GrecoRomanGuy → u/Kalavier]

Idk what the fuck they expected. Cavill loved the books.

Literally one of the early promos for the show is him sitting in a chair and reading a passage from one of the goddamn books. And it worked because A. he's clearly a fan and B. it builds some hype.

[u/Cabre13 → u/GrecoRomanGuy]

No, he never read the books before being casted in the series, he was a fan of the games and later he was pretending to be a expert in the books.

[u/Feeling_Sector_4726 → u/Cabre13]

It’s hilarious that you’re being downvoted. He definitely had not read the books, he had only played the games. 

He literally talked about this on Jimmy Kimmel.

[u/Louiebox → u/Kalavier]

To be fair, Geralt fucks.

[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

[u/Flaky-Ninja2398 → u/SmoothDiscussion7763]

That statement is genuinely absurd to me. Why have an action movie - why not just show the aftermath? Why have a love story and not just tell us two people got together? Why show a war movie and not just them signing the peace treatsy? Do you even hear yourself?

[u/SmoothDiscussion7763 → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

hey, if i want to see fucking, there's already a genre for it.

if i'm watching an action movie, spare the fucking thanks

[u/Flaky-Ninja2398 → u/SmoothDiscussion7763]

No obviously pornography and naritive film are wildly different, come on. While titillation is one thing sex on camera can do it's also powerful as a storytelling tool

[u/SmoothDiscussion7763 → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

yes, i can see why sex needs to be played out on screen, like in GoT when danny learns to have sex differently to gain power over kal drogo, that can be shown on screen for visual impact.

HOWEVER, not all scenes need to be

[u/Flaky-Ninja2398 → u/SmoothDiscussion7763]

That's fair. But right now in most mainstream American movies we don't even get the fade to black, unless it's a "sex movie" and then that's the whole thing, the ballance feels way off. We should be able to have light fun casual sex in movies just like in real life

[u/SmoothDiscussion7763 → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

meh, i can do without them if they're just meant to be "yeah they banged" without the specific sex-related plot relevance like "while banging, the woman noticed spines growing out of the man's ribcage, making her suspect he was a godzilla hybrid" or some shit

[u/Blue_Moon_Lake → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

You can have the character speaking together in the disheveled bed after the fact, so it's implied.

[u/Ayotha → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

Rarely

[u/Flaky-Ninja2398 → u/Ayotha]

What do you mean by this? It objectively does. It's a plot point and a very dramatic one at that

[u/Blue_Moon_Lake → u/Flaky-Ninja2398]

I wasn't speaking specifically about The Witcher.

Sex scenes that don't progress the story in meaningful ways are useless.

[u/Flaky-Ninja2398 → u/Blue_Moon_Lake]

But two characters have sex is advancing the story. It's literally a plot point. And one of the most dramatic you can have. I really don't understand why people say this