[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/elderlybrain → u/Loud-Scarcity6213]

  certain people tried to imply it was because he was a chud bigot misogynist

Who said this? I've never seen this.

[u/Mayonaigg → u/elderlybrain]

It's hard to find articles in the age of slop but this article sums up most of it, you can probably find the deuxmoi podcast where most of these claims "from insiders" were made. It's pretty widely agreed by all that the allegations are entirely fabricated trying to smear the guy cause he was getting praised as the only good thing about the Witcher Netflix. Hopefully links work here

https://www.nme.com/news/tv/henry-cavill-reportedly-refused-to-do-all-shirtless-scenes-in-the-witcher-3396189

They basically call him a toxic, misogynistic incel "gamer bro"

[u/ThyHolyPaladdin → u/elderlybrain]

Probably on twitter. I swear to God there’s hordes of people with weird opinions that are only native to twitter and don’t show up in other social media platforms

[u/FrigidMcThunderballs → u/elderlybrain]

Oh I actually remember this, it was a very short lived rumor that never really caught on. Basically died in a few weeks. IIRC it was because of the show's colorblind casting that some people painted him as leaving over creative differences wrt the source material as him rejecting the "woke direction" of the show. Like I said tho this didn't really go anywhere as a take, probably because it was invented out of thin air.

[u/Ayotha → u/elderlybrain]

ANy of the show runners when he left to defend their garbage