[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/Deuce_GM]

I blame the success of Gladiator. Everyone knows that Gladiator is historically inaccurate but is still considered one of the greatest movies of all time.

Guess ol' Ridley believed that he's an official historical movie genius now. Hubris is a hell of a drug

[u/Angryfunnydog → u/Deuce_GM]

Well it was entertaining and had great story and everything. I don’t mind movies being non-historical if they’re great and altering historical facts make the movie better as a movie

Here it was some weird family porn movie without sex but with half of the script being dirty talks between Napoleon and Josephine, ignoring most of really interesting things about this legendary figure. I legit felt awkward watching this with parents, we just silently looked at each other from time to time with question in mind “what the fuck are we watching??”

[u/RTX-2020 → u/Angryfunnydog]

It's like a propaganda film made by his enemies, but more than a century late

[u/shivux → u/Angryfunnydog]

Those dirty talks were honestly the highlights of the movie.

[u/Angryfunnydog → u/shivux]

Well I mean, compared to the rest I will even agree, though if I knew - I'd rather watched it without parents and stoned asf lol

[u/semisociallyawkward → u/Deuce_GM]

The Great TV series (about Catherine the Great) doesn't even try to be accurate, admits it and is genuinely   better because of it.

It's flawed, don't get me wrong, but being cheerfully, admittedly and intentionally inaccurate is so much better than being unintentionally inaccurate or insisting that you are accurate.

[u/themolestedsliver → u/Deuce_GM]

Gladiator is the cream of the crop of historical inaccurate but still fantastic movie.

[u/Careful-Positive-710 → u/Deuce_GM]

Gladiator also had the advantage of the characters not being as widely known. Its historical fiction and thats how alot of people view it. Alot of the characters in Gladiator that existed IRL, arent familiar to the general population. IRL Commodus was strangled to death in his bath. He didnt die fighting Maximus in the colosseum, but no one cares because its an entertaining movie with characters 90% of the population didnt know actually existed.

Everyone knows who Napoleon is and his accomplishments were only a few hundred years ago instead of a few thousand years ago. I havent seen the movie, but I heard its boring as well and thats likely its biggest sin in the eyes of general audiences. They can change a bunch of the real history and most people wouldnt care if it was atleast entertaining.

[u/Farraddaayy → u/Careful-Positive-710]

Yeah, people act like the biggest sin was making Wacky Feenix be a cuck but at the end of the day the movie just fucking sucked