15 Adaptations that Completely Disregarded the Source Material

Different media are, well, different. A book is not a movie, and a comic is not a TV show. What works on paper may not work on the screen, and some things you can read about, but you definitely don’t want to see. Changes are inevitable when you’re adapting something.

And then there’s these. The people behind each of these adaptations took the original work as just a bunch of suggestions they couldn’t be bothered to follow -- and amazingly, in some cases it worked. Still, you have to wonder why they took the trouble to get the rights to the original at all, don’t you?