Which books have the worst video adaptation? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by abbadon420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me it's definitely the Dark Tower, but the Golden Compas was also a huge letdown.

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Imagine taking a beloved classic fantasy series and handing the material off to the CW for adaptation and you've got the gist of Amazon's WoT series. It's pretty, it's vapid and there's a whole pile of extra teenage soap opera drama thrown into season 1 for no real reason.

[-] TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Same thing that happened with the Shannara TV show. MTV wanted a kid friendly fantasy romance competitor to GoT, so they butchered a series that's basically none of those things. They also started with book 2 for whatever reason.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

I imagine they couldn’t get the rights to The Lord of the Rings in order to adapt book 1 of Shannara.

[-] TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

What? No it's totally different, our Gandalf is named Allanon and he's a Druid, not a Wizard. Druids get a d8. And the Warlock Lord's Skull Bearers are definitely not Nazgul, they fly with wings not horses.

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