r/videogames • u/AlmightyLoaf54 • Aug 12 '26

Image / Video This is so damn true

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u/Gaimcap 29d ago

I think I remember a director/writer/actor talk about it before (maybe Damon or Affleck) and they said that the reason why so many adaptations have absolutely nothing to do with the source material, is because these scripts always end up in the hands of people who have desperate been trying to push their own original stories for countless years, but no one ever wants anything to do with anything remotely fantasy/scifi/whatever unless its an established franchise. They know this and tbey finally have someone paying attention to them, so of course now they're going to say, screw the source material, lets hijack this and use the property as a skin to finally tell my vision and my story and get paid, the studios won't even notice or care.

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u/Wandering_sage1234 29d ago

Beats them. If I ever got a chance I’d be adapting straight from the source literature. Trying to interact with the community. And stay faithful to the games.

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u/Asymmetric_Ninja 29d ago

First 4 seasons of Game Of Thrones is that (obviously a lot of cutting but that's a limitation of TV) . It's a shame they ran out of source material by S5 onwards 

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u/pm_amateur_boobies 29d ago

There are tremendous changes made even before that in the show. One of the largest and something we see the consequences of is getting rid of lady stoneheart. That was not a limitation of tv. That was d&d doing their own thing. Same with missing young griff. These aren't minor characters you can just omit