Least Accurate Book, Comic, Videogame, etc to Movie Adaptation

[Black Rabt]

Battlefield Earth wasn't too good either

 

[berault]

Spider-Man 2: The Movie The Game, there was a level where you fought aliens, there were no aliens in Spiderman 2! The game developers pulled that straight out of their asses...

 

[stiver]

Wow, I'm the first person mentioning Starship Troopers? Love the book and the movie but literally the similarities end with

1) There is a character from Earth called Johnny (in the book his name was Juanitto) and a couple of the other characters had the same names as well.
2) You have to serve in the military to become a citizen.
3) There is a war with a race called Bugs (in the book they were an industrial race more like humans).

Yeah, plus the title that's pretty much it. My personal favorite difference though is the character 'Dizzy' Gilespy(sp?). In the movie the character was a hot redhead that ends up being a romantic interest for Johnny. In the book...a guy who dies on the first page.

You do realize that Starship troopers, or "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine" wasn't an actual adaption of the book. The film had already entered production when someone stood up and said "hey your movie is similar to this book". And thus they took the name, and a couple character's names, and smashed it together with their movie and a misunderstood bastard child was born.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Nuff. FUCKING. Said.​

This. What about Mario Bros. screams "Englishman and Latino fighting Dennis Hopper and his army of 8ft Goombas in a Blade Runner style fucked up dystopia"?

Were they even brothers in this film? It's almost as if they just cynically took loads of names from the series and applied them to some bland sci-fi in orer to boost it's appeal... but the movie industry would never do that, right?

 

[Georgie_Leech]

What about books to videogames? Can we include those?

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

BloodRayne. If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't believe it was possible to make a film I didn't love out of that game.

Most adaption do tend to suck in some way compared to their original, but some a lot more than others.

 

[Trifixion]

BloodRayne. If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't believe it was possible to make a film I didn't love out of that game.

I agree, and I'd like to expand that to say "pretty much every Uwe Boll film."

 

[That's Funny]

I'm gonna say V for Vendetta, the setting is very different in the comic and the ending to it is not a happy one like the movie.

(damn you Wachowschi's)