>>213634660Your mistake is assuming they wanted to adapt it in the first place.
Whenever you see an “adaption” like this, it’s almost always an IP the studio owns being stapled onto a script they want to push out the door. Sometimes it’s because they’re losing the rights and need to make something, sometimes it’s because some nepo baby has a dogshit script and the clout to get it produced, and sometimes it’s even paying people off by proxy. Either way, adapting the source material is a tertiary concern at best.
The few exceptions generally happen when someone high in production actually likes it, or at least recognises milking one movie isn’t worth the opportunity cost.