Regarding adaptations
Amelia Rules!
>Creator of Amelia Rules! is approached by an exec to make a tv show to which he agrees to
>She backs off at the last second because she didn't actually read the series and when she finally did she found out it tackled more serious topics than expected
>They changed their mind because Amelia Rules had too much "content" and "content" is bad for the female demographic who just needed a cute icon to latch onto to buy stuff and having "content" is damaging for a girls property
>This exec was a woman
Franny K. Stein
>Creator was approached to get Franny K. Stein adapted for a cartoon series
>Network execs wanted to age up the character, make her envious of popular girls, have her focus on crushes, etc
>Basically the series in name only to which he heavily disagreed with
Bone
>In 1998 Nickelodeon wanted to adapt Bone for the big screen and signed a deal with Jeff Smith
>They wanted the Bones to be played by children, Fone Bone to have magic gloves, have the focus move to Thorn, the ending to be changed, and have music from Nsync and Britney Spears
>The meddling got so bad Smith walked out of the project
