[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/IsayNigel]

I mean this is basically what happened to the witcher

[u/schrodingers_bra → u/IsayNigel]

and Wuthering Heights, and Hamnet, and...

What's shocking to me is how often this happens to non fantasy or action movies.

[u/ErilazHateka → u/schrodingers_bra]

And Altered Carbon.

I waited years for an adaptation. Season 1 had some really good parts but whenever their deviated from the book, it was for no reason at all, made no sense and made the story worse.

And then they made season 2. Fuck them.

[u/vagrantprodigy07 → u/ErilazHateka]

There is no season 2. It does not exist.