Why base a movie on a book/comic then change so much?

[Death Metal Moe]

This has really been bothering me lately. Most recently with The Watchmen movie. They were pretty faithful to the book, except for little shit...oh yea, and the whole fucking end.

Now I'm reading around the net about this new Wolverine movie. They completely just fuck with the characters from different Marvel movies, nothing is faithful to the comic or even from the last movie lots of times.

I understand that some things have to changed. I undertand you can't take a long book or multi-issue comic story and make it a tight 2 hour movie without sacrifices. But let's take Deadpool in the new Wolverine movie. He's known for his quick whit and verbal jabs in the comics, in the movie he's mute. That's a big difference.

My overall question is this:

Why think "This is SO GREAT we need to make it a big screen movie" and then change so much of it, most of it unnecessarly. LIke even little shit like costumes, why change it if the comic was so inspiring that you felt the public needed a movie around it?

[MacVittie]

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[FezsAssistant]

This has really been bothering me lately. Most recently with The Watchmen movie. They were pretty faithful to the book, except for little shit...oh yea, and the whole fucking end.

Now I'm reading around the net about this new Wolverine movie. They completely just fuck with the characters from different Marvel movies, nothing is faithful to the comic or even from the last movie lots of times.

I understand that some things have to changed. I undertand you can't take a long book or multi-issue comic story and make it a tight 2 hour movie without sacrifices. But let's take Deadpool in the new Wolverine movie. He's known for his quick whit and verbal jabs in the comics, in the movie he's mute. That's a big difference.

My overall question is this:

Why think "This is SO GREAT we need to make it a big screen movie" and then change so much of it, most of it unnecessarly. LIke even little shit like costumes, why change it if the comic was so inspiring that you felt the public needed a movie around it?

this was a poignant statement 2 weeks ago when ron said it.

[Death Metal Moe]

this was a poignant statement 2 weeks ago when ron said it.

No one said I was covering new ground or trying to start some sort of brave new movement. Just wanted some board opinions on a problem we've all see for many years now.

But thanks for adding, again.

[GreatAmericanZero]

this was a poignant statement 2 weeks ago when ron said it.

i thought Ron made the opposite point..."why see a movie if its exactly like the book, point for point...i would rather just read the book"

[Contra]

They're called studio producers, AKA the cancer of cinema.

[Death Metal Moe]

They're called studio producers, AKA the cancer of cinema.

Those assholes should fucking die. They think their re-imagining will be so much better than the original idea.

Fucking jackoffs, eat a dick.