Thread 24647891

>Book I care about gets an adaptation for the big screen
>>>It's absolutely NOTHING like the book, only tangential similarities here and there in the shallowest manner possible

Why? Why do they always do this? Just to spite us?

Because their objective is to make a successful movie not to cater to nerds that read books. Also it wasn’t that bad, they just had to remove the scenes with Parvati patio that would have been r-rated

>>24647891 (OP)
Because why would anyone who've read the book then watch the movie?

The Shannara Chronicles fucking pissed me off.

Hollywood is run by marketers and private equity firms (wall street,) who don't understand films or know what people want. So they search for things that have pre established audiences. This also means creators can't make what they want. So you get two outcomes. They take a book for example, and make it generic to appeal to people who don't read the books. Or creators find properties to adapt, but hollow it out to make the thing they actually want to make, in the aesthetic shell of what they are adapting.

>>24647891 (OP)
The Prestige was better than the book.

>>24647907
I actually have to ask people this sometimes. People are surprised when I tell them I've never seen a Harry Potter movie or watched Game of Thrones. Harry Potter was my third favourite series as an early teen (Deltora Quest was first and Artemis Fowl was second) and A Song of Ice and Fire was my favourite series as a mid to late teen. Why the fuck would I ruin those memories by watching some awful movie or television version when I've already enjoyed the books? I no longer think either series is good, but I'm still unwilling to waste time watching shit I've already read and enjoyed. I've seen clips of HP and been told how GoT ruined my favourite character Jaime, before anyone asks how I know they're shit without having watched them. "Why would I fucking watch something I've already read" should not be a surprising question.

>>24647891 (OP)
There's a shitload of aspiring writers who have all sorts of movie or show ideas but can't get any of them produced because nobody wants to give a random unknown writer a massive budget for their personal pet project (and the hard truth is most of their story ideas are dogshit). The solution is to pitch an adaptation of an existing work. They then basically take the script for their personal story and change the character names and maybe add a few beats from the original work.

>>24647891 (OP)
>why
because hollywood is a degenerate cesspool of shit and cannot think up anything new so they have to steal ideas

somebody read that book and used it as a starting point for yet another slop film to get the instant credibility for a crappy movie that otherwise NOBODY would spend $$ to see

>>24647891 (OP)
Grab a camera and make your own adaptation nerd, you have a 90% of chance of making something more entertaining and soulful than the shit produced nowadays. Expect me in the first row for the premiere

>>24647910
>The Shannara Chronicles fucking pissed me off.
what? Theres a Shannara trilogy movies? Huh? I *love* "Stee Jans"... would love to see him in a movie!

>>24647917
>Or creators find properties to adapt, but hollow it out to make the thing they actually want to make, in the aesthetic shell of what they are adapting.
THIS
its been admtted. You buy he IP (intellectual property) rights, just to make it the "skin suit"for *your* story that you really want to tell.
which is how this shit goes down OP is talking about.

>>24647944
>The Prestige
killer movie.
I'm older so I know Michael Caine. And hey, batman was in it, LMAO.

>>24649719
It's an MTV two season series. It combines the plots of The Elfstones with the later Scion series I think. It was an unholy amalgamation that was ultimately aborted like a dead, fetid fetus.

It was more like a teeny-bopper masturbatory aid rather than an honest adaptation of the books.

>unfilmable epistolary novel I like keeps getting picked up by directors
>Even the right kind of directors to film unfilmable epistolary novel
>every one of them let the rights lapse
Head pictures it is