Is it just me or does anyone else absolutely hate when a director tries to make a movie to a book they have clearly never read?
Is it just me or does anyone else absolutely hate when a director tries to make a movie to a book they have clearly never read?
Actually, my favorite was a review of the Watership Down Netflix miniseries. Whoever wrote the review clearly hadn’t read the books
I’ll have to see if I can find it again
Ready player one, fantastic book. Terrible shambles of a film.
Back when I was reading mainly YA I got really excited for Eragon and The lighting thief and the writers and directors have clearly never read the books. They completely changed the stories.
@Robert Dragons with feather wings. Face-palm.
Lmao, that was pretty annoying but, how did they ruin it so much as to completely forget there were several other races of beings in the story. Like the Werecats, the Dwarves, the sorry excuse for Urgals and Kull, the Elves.
@Robert Yeah, everything looked terrible, it was poorly cast, the dialog was abysmal and cheesy and my favorite characters Nasuada and Angela were virtually non existant. They aren’t my favorite books of all time or anything, but they are good in thier own right, and the directors butchered a great opportunity there. Maybe someone will try again someday.
Stephen King has been the victim of some serious WTFary in his time.
Maximum Overdrive
(Original) Shining (still great movie)
Running Man
Lawnmower Man
The Dark Tower
I feel like I’m missing a couple.
Eragon was definitely a hot mess. There are people who deserve to be physically punished for it and Battlefield Earth.
They want to “express” their own vision and at times “ subvert expectations”
@Steven Eragon was a mediocre version of its actual story.
“Subverting expectations” is almost always a huge mistake. -_-
@Lauren yep
@Robert “mediocre” is putting it nicely.
Expressing your own vision is great. Don’t ruin someone else’s vision to do it. Books usually hit the bestseller lists for a reason.
Yes!
Percy Jackson in a nutshell
Comic not movie but I can’t watch Wanted without getting pissed how u not gonna have shit head un there and Rictus gets a name drop that’s it grrrr
Eragon was a case of producers seeing the success of Lord of The Rings so they went out and grabbed the cheapest property possible and butchered it because they wanted to turn a quick buck.
Not as much as when a director/show runner who had read the book and proclaims to be a massive fan but then hints at changes we all know are not needed. Yes I’m looking at you Rafe and WoT.
I’m utterly dreading what’s going to be done to this 🙁
I can absolutely agree with that
i will never forget when i read one of the Studios pitched a idea to the J.R.R. Tolkien estate
for one 90 min movie for the lord of the rings I almost had a heart attack.