[HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

[u/Chill0000]

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

[u/MartinTheOrderly]

I can understand these producers ignoring the original material, however stupid I may think it is. 

What makes no sense is why they would BRAG about it. The whole point of adapting a work is to cash in on popularity of the original thing. So why would you openly talk about how, by design, it does not resemble the thing whose popularity you're trying to take advantage of? 

[u/PuppetWraith17 → u/MartinTheOrderly]

Ego... that's it. They think they can do better... they think they ARE better.

[u/Tasty-Departure9398 → u/MartinTheOrderly]

What I find interesting, is that there is an opposite effect in gaming, particularly for super hero games. For the last 10 years or so, game studios have intentionally mucked with character designs for super heroes, refusing to use classic, accepted or immediately recognizable designs. I assume this is the same kind of ego. They want their vision to be unique, and “better”, but it ends up looking like a knock-off of the character.
I suppose it is possible that the IP holders could be causing it too, like when they refuse to allow some characters in shows, but you don’t usually see this level of bad/weird visuals in shows.
Why can’t Peter Parker look like Tom Holland? Maybe life rights. But why can’t the Spider-Man suit look like the current MCU suit? Or a classic suit? Why do we have Temu Wolverine?
Why hasn’t Batman looked good since Arkham?

[u/fUnpleasantMusic → u/Tasty-Departure9398]

Spider-man has so many suits... including MCU. And he doesn't look like Tom Holland because he's not played by Tom Holland. It's a different Spider-Man in the multi-verse. There are so. many. spider-men.

I don't think you understand the iterative nature of super heroes. Are you also mad when Robert Pattinson doesn't sound like Kevin Conroy?

[u/Tasty-Departure9398 → u/fUnpleasantMusic]

Toby McGuire voiced Spider-Man in the 2000 video game. Andrew Garfield voiced Spider-Man in the Amazing Spider-Man game.

I don’t think you understand that the games used to be tied to the media; not a completely unique expression. It’s the same issue as this post, in reverse. Instead of basing the game on the comics or movies, now they are half-assed adaptations that look nothing like the source material.

[u/Das_Autobot → u/Tasty-Departure9398]

Bruh, those games were directly based on the movies starring those actors. The recent PlayStation games are their own thing, not tied to any specific comics or movies, but influenced by them. An amalgamation, as it were.

Hell those games aren't even consistent with themselves. Halfway through the series they completely changed Peter Parker's face. Now he looks like a weird hybrid of their original design and Tom Holland. Something about how it was better for the actor's facial capture to come across on screen, which is a weird explanation considering all of the other characters still have the same faces.

[u/Tasty-Departure9398 → u/Das_Autobot]

The Halo TV series is its own thing, not tied to any specific comics or movies, but influenced by them. An amalgamation, as it were.

Does that negate the premise of this entire post? Or could there be, possibly, an overlap between these two things?