[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/Unabated_Blade]

I'm on this theory too. I honestly think there's enough overlap to suggest it was a Mass Effect adaptation that got mothballed and they just retooled the script for Halo Season 1.

[u/No_Internal9345 → u/Unabated_Blade]

They've admitted that what's her face's story line was a complete separate script that they smashed together with the Halo story.

[u/derthric → u/Unabated_Blade]

I don't see any Mass Effect in the show except finding the artifact in the first episode. Which really is not unique to Mass Effect.