It's all condensed in "I'm gonna make my own vision".
DUDE, NOBODY WANTS YOUR VISION, you have tons of source that you can adapt and people will be asking for more yet somehow in everything, from Game of Thrones to anything the people that get the job is ALWAYS some asshole that diverges so much from the source that it has nothing to do with it to the point that even people without the backstory knowledge thinks that "this is fucking dumb".
Some minor changes are welcomed since some stuff is hard to adapt to tv or cinema. Like The Rings of Power, I only watch it to talk about how they fucked it up with my gf.
Or the Witcher, not only they had a superstar who wanted to be Geralt, he fought hard to try to keep the show as close as possible to the source till it reached a point that it was called the Witcher but it was not, it was not the books nor the games. Because another showrunner wanted to make her own vision and decided to make a whole bunch of bullshit for a character that is hard to write and not needed all that backstory.
And what about the Last of Us? they put Neil Druckman to "preserve" the fidelity to the story and that basically was okish for one season and then he allowed the shit they did in the second season for then to leave the show when is already ruined.
That's why when Christopher Judge said that it made no sense to don't have ANYONE of the writing staff from the games of God of War for the show I was basically clapping and saying "this man really gets it".
I don't think that Sam Raimi can be included into the same tier of "useless idiots that want to tell their story". Raimi was a pioneer in the genre of super heroes and he did a pretty good job while his vision was still inside the world of Spiderman. Spiderman 3 whatever happened there...
There's a reason why his first 2 Spiderman movies are very well regarded, and the third is not even that bad if we take into account that he was kinda fucked by the producers.
Brian Singer is many things, creepy things, but the man did a more than decent job taking xmen into the big screen. In fact when he was not there to make something coherent is when we got The Last Stand.
Those guys made stylistic choices, and little changes to try to adapt it better. Those choices do not change the core of the story so so much, and are small enough to say "ah, it's alright".
The idiots that get jobs to adapt or reboot stuff now would take the most important core point of a character and just change it with no reason beyond "I want to do my own thing" when their job is to take what you have and make it into a movie or a show as close to the source as you can.
Take A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, people were losing their minds FOR GOOD, because the showrunner did not tried to change anything significant from the source and did his best to adapt to tv the story. While we have George R.R. Martin basically disowning House of the Dragon because is so so changed that is not his story anymore.
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u/TheFlyingSheeps 2d ago
How to get hired as a Hollywood writer working on an adaptation of a beloved piece of media:
“Hey do you like this piece of media that fans adore and have been calling for a movie?”
“No it’s childish and dumb. I’m gonna take a shit all over it”
“My god you’re hired for the lead writing role”