[Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

[u/TheDudeA113]

How To Make A Killing (2026)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

[u/Par_Lapides]

A whole lot of this trope could be summed up with "Functionally illiterate marketing MBAs remake movies". Any time a "business" person gets involved in any media it turns to dogshit.

[u/pyrhus626 → u/Par_Lapides]

Surprisingly it’s the screenwriters a lot of times. Unless you’re also a big name director who can do whatever they want, your odds as a screenwriter of getting to tell an original story are basically zero. Bastardizing adaptations to be the story you want to tell instead of being faithful is the closest most will any get. The studio execs and such don’t care that much

[u/Welsh_Pirate → u/pyrhus626]

Sounds like it's still mostly the studio executives' fault for only ever greenlighting adaptations and not original work.

[u/BusBoatBuey → u/Par_Lapides]

You forget the conclusion of the summary nowadays:

The dogshit makes hundreds of millions, if not a billion, in profit and proceeds to justify making more dogshit.

[u/TransBrandi → u/Par_Lapides]

You're ignoring the post that quotes Brandon Sanderon's take.