15 Times Hollywood Butchered Our Favorite Books, Turning Them Into Box Office Bombs
On one hand, adapting a book into a movie seems like an easy way out: the screenwriters already have a plot and they just need to modify it to focus on some aspects that would shine in the cinema and condensing it into a smaller runtime.
On the other hand, though, some interpretations can omit way too much and be too creative in handling the source material. We're gonna talk about the latter ones.
Not every written story can be properly translated to a movie medium, and sometimes the parts that the screenwriters decide to highlight simply overshadow the main plot points that were showcased in the original. And that becomes a problem: the movie that parades itself as an adaptation of a book and not something that was inspired by it feels like an edgy fanfiction.
Complicated worlds get diluted, characters become dull combinations of tropes with no depth, timelines end up being jumbled, and don't get us started on the cliffhangers that follow where the adaptation of the first book in the series flops.
Some movie adaptations have nice traits: Queen of the Damned, for example, looks nice and has a cool soundtrack, but that's all it has.