My Cage "Classic" 08/22/2008
Added 2022-02-18 12:29:08 +0000 UTCWeird thought pattern leading up to this question, but: What are some examples of editors/studios. etc. changing something about a book, movie, tv show, comic, etc. from how the creator(s) originally wanted it that you've heard of?
Originally run Aug 22st 2008.
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Comments
Wow. Very interesting!
My Cage
2022-02-21 17:25:40 +0000 UTCPersonally, casting Manhattan as the menace made more sense plotwise since it also gave a reason for Big M to leave the planet and left out unnecessary wrinkles in the ending. As for killing the Comedian (wasn't there a queue?), I had the impression that he had been a co-conspirator in the movie and leaving out the plastic aliens simplified that too. Besides, it's plenty long now and I would not have liked to stretch it out to include the CGI/latex monsters. Adapting some books to other genres involves trimming to fit. Now if Watchmen were redone as a limited series you could have room for such things. And in fact, the Watchmen series did have things that would have had to be cut out of a movie.
J.E. Melton
2022-02-18 23:42:35 +0000 UTCAnd another thing;) Michael Crichton's books are usually different than the movies they make from them (Exception was Andromeda Strain--very close to the book) And usually the movies are better than the books. (Crichton usually had a hand in creating the movies, so no real harm there.) But one thing in the Eaters of the Dead/The 13th Warrior that you get in the book, but not so much in the movie was a sort of subplot about who the people were who Buliwyff etc fought with. (You should also get that he was using Beowulf as his model, but unless you actually read this in school, you probably missed this.) Anyway, Crichton made numerous references in the book, kind of little reference sections sandwiched between some of the chapters, to Neanderthals, and how far into human history they may have survived. The takeaway is that he wrote EOTD as history, and Buliwyff and his people as fighting a community af Neanderthals that survived into the middle ages. That idea sort of blew me away in the book, but didn't really come through in the movie.
Jon Benson
2022-02-18 18:17:39 +0000 UTCWhen they made the Watchmen movie, it was all pretty close to comic, but they changed one thing--the comic had Ozmandias creating a giant fake alien that was supposed to be teleported into Times Square. This was supposed to simulate an alien attack and unify the people on Earth to a defensive mode. In the movie they just made Dr. Manhattan the threat. Sorta worked, but the whole starting point of the movie was the assassination of The Comedian, because he had seen the island where the "alien" was being constructed and had worked out Ozymandias' plot. Yes, he was killed because of his knowledge of the plot, but they never really made it clear how he got to that place. As that particular point was kinda the mcguffin that started the whole thing going, it was a disappointment to me that they rewrote it. (Probably for time or because they couldn't figure out how to make it work CGI-wise etc, but still.)
Jon Benson
2022-02-18 17:55:04 +0000 UTC
