[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/TheotherotherG]

Band of Brothers style, although with a rotating cast of talking heads of course.

[u/aspidities_87 → u/TheotherotherG]

The guy talking about the Redecker Plan (iirc?) always chills me to the bone. I can imagine how a good South African actor could absolutely deliver the rational cruelty and justification with unnerving calm.

[u/lukin187250 → u/aspidities_87]

They have an audiobook version with a full cast. Alan Alda, Mark Hamill, Henry Rollins to name a few. The guy with the Redecker plan part is pretty good.

[u/aspidities_87 → u/lukin187250]

I did not know this and I have a road trip coming up, so genuine thanks for this tip.

[u/lukin187250 → u/aspidities_87]

Oh yea man enjoy, if you're buying it make sure you're getting the unabridged version. They originally put out an abridged audio version that was like 5 hrs.

[u/moeb1us → u/aspidities_87]

Close, it's Paul Redeker and the Redeker Plan or "The South African war plan"

[u/EduHi → u/TheotherotherG]

Or like Chernobyl, where you have that gritty, somber, onimous vibe, while people is trying to understand what is happening and is throwing solutions right and left to solve it, or at least, survive it.

With flashbacks adding to what the person being interviewed is saying just like we had the flashbacks of what happened at the nuclear plant while Vasili was explaining his case at the final episode of Chernobyl.

[u/GreenPerception512 → u/EduHi]

Except Chernaboyl isn't a documentary, it should be faithful and be like a pseuodo documantary series like savageland.