Which books have the worst video adaptation?

abbadon420@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 84 points –

For me it's definitely the Dark Tower, but the Golden Compas was also a huge letdown.

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Imagine taking a beloved classic fantasy series and handing the material off to the CW for adaptation and you've got the gist of Amazon's WoT series. It's pretty, it's vapid and there's a whole pile of extra teenage soap opera drama thrown into season 1 for no real reason.

Same thing that happened with the Shannara TV show. MTV wanted a kid friendly fantasy romance competitor to GoT, so they butchered a series that's basically none of those things. They also started with book 2 for whatever reason.

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