It’s a fine line. Sometimes you need to have the freedom to make some changes. Peter Jackson walked the line beautifully with The Lord of the Rings. But what’s important at the end of the day is that the creators love these stories and characters. Any changes need to come from a place of passion. Right now, a lot of these adaptations feel like mandates from executives trying to cash in on a popular IP. Not “Oh my God, this person came to us with such a good script and a love for this world!”
Reluctantziti on
Eichiro Oda is showing with the success from LA One Piece that having author control of the content can generate success. It won’t be the way studios want success, which is as cheap and self serving as possible, but you can really tell the difference from the casting to the costumes to the essential soul of the story being intact between a truly great adaptation like LA OP and the god awful fan fiction mess House of the Dragon turned out to be. I hope they redo the Dance accurately as an animated series one day but I won’t hold my breath.
tony_countertenor on
“Accuracy” is not at all relevant to how good an adaptation is , and generally novelists are bad judges of what will make a movie good or bad
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It’s a fine line. Sometimes you need to have the freedom to make some changes. Peter Jackson walked the line beautifully with The Lord of the Rings. But what’s important at the end of the day is that the creators love these stories and characters. Any changes need to come from a place of passion. Right now, a lot of these adaptations feel like mandates from executives trying to cash in on a popular IP. Not “Oh my God, this person came to us with such a good script and a love for this world!”
Eichiro Oda is showing with the success from LA One Piece that having author control of the content can generate success. It won’t be the way studios want success, which is as cheap and self serving as possible, but you can really tell the difference from the casting to the costumes to the essential soul of the story being intact between a truly great adaptation like LA OP and the god awful fan fiction mess House of the Dragon turned out to be. I hope they redo the Dance accurately as an animated series one day but I won’t hold my breath.
“Accuracy” is not at all relevant to how good an adaptation is , and generally novelists are bad judges of what will make a movie good or bad