I usually hope for my favorite books to be adapted by Hollywood, knowing full well that they'll butcher the source material and mangle everything I love about it. Sometimes it's not so bad (V for Vendetta wasn't a bad adaptation, in my opinon) but some ideas make me shudder (the Evangelion movie, methinks, will be quite bad -- but look very stylish). And some things are begging for adaptation/remake, especially the Japanese anime short film "Magnetic Rose" from Katsuhiro Otomo's short-film presentation, Memories. I think that it could be made into a very good, solid American sci-fi movie with effective directing and design.
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Originally Posted by Orion_mk3
It's entirely possible for an adaptation to be better than its source material, though it's rare.
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So true for Jules Verne novels. I've read both 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, and I have to say, the books bored me to tears when I loved the movies. Especially Journey...I don't know how Verne made that boring, but it was. Great concepts, but maybe I'm just too modern to appreciate them.
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