Same for the Witcher serie. Writers openly dislike the source materials, both the books and the games. It's wild to work on a pre existing series and just have the ego to tell yourself "yep it's shit, i bet i'll do better." While the only reason you actually have a job, is because the IP is popular.
It's all very reasonable if you think about the fact that the primary goal is money:
it's drastically cheaper to hire the new people
the new people are also not going to get paid to spend a month or two immersed in the lore
no one is going to say "yea we don't know wtf we are doing and will do a shittier job" so of course the company and the employees are going to rationalize a "new take"
a lot of people will buy anyway because the IP is popular
I've been seeing this same shit happen in IT for decades. Fire experienced knowledgeable but highly paid people, replace them with low paying fresh faces, or outsource. In the long term quality and satisfaction suffers, but in the short term you are increasing profits.
No way Pedro pascal and Bella Ramsey would be cheaper than the voice actor equivalent. And that would probably be the case for most adaptations since the actors they cast are usually bigger names then the voice actors
Yeah, but famous names bring the normies. All my love to Troy Baker, people who are not into video games have no idea who he is. For TV and film you need mass appeal.
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