History Main / TruerToTheText

* TimBurton plays this straight with his adaptations of PlanetoftheApes and CharlieandtheChocolateFactory.

* ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'' was to be a far more faithful retelling of the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga. The anime adaptation, in this case, was [[AdaptationDisplacement quite popular in its own right]], but at the same time, [[BaseBreaker it left fans of the manga livid]]. That said, many fans found ''Brotherhood'' lacking as well.

* {{LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine}} is the most faithful adaptation to the original manga in spirit, tone, and content.

* JohnCarpenter's ''TheThing'' compared to ''AThingFromAnotherWorld''. The older film used the beginning of the plot of them finding UFO in the ice and it containing and alien, but from there diverged quite a bit. Carpenter's version had the alien keep it's assimilation powers and overall stayed much closer to the plot of the book.
* The 2011 version of ConanTheBarbarian, according to WordOfGod, was intended to be closer to the original Robert E. Howard novels than the 1982 film was.

* The 1997 miniseries of ''TheShining'' was far closer to Stephen King's book [[spoiler: with the huge exception of the {{Bowdlerise}}d ending]]. This is a strong example of "more faithful" not equaling "better": the miniseries was underrated (and scarily effective in its own right), and the 1980 film has significant weaknesses, but Kubrick's vision--however un-Kinglike--still resulted in a better movie.

* Tim Burton's ''[[Film/{{Batman}} Batman]]'' was this to the Adam West series, being darker and moodier. After it suffered AdaptationDecay and became LighterAndSofter ChristopherNolan's ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' became this in it's own right.
** This is debatable. [[DorkAge At the time, the Adam West series was incredibly faithful to its source comics]], and the Burton films were way darker than most of the comics at the time, tweaked Batman's origin story and the Joker's past, and showed Batman acting out of character in regards to killing.
** In addition, Nolan's movies borrowed heavily from comics such as Year One, The Long Halloween, and No Man's Land, but still changed many things. For example, the Joker wears make up instead of having his skin bleached white and his hair dyed green, and instead of using the super-steroid Venom Bane has anesthetic gas pumped through his mask so he feels no pain.

* TheCoenBrothers said this was their intention when they made their film adaptation of ''TrueGrit''.

Sometimes, these complaints are heard, and the result is a TruerToTheText adaptation. When this happens, the story gets ''another'' adaptation, or at least go out of their way to cover what they missed out on last time. This time there will be no annoying additions, no alternate ending, no important details ignored, just the original story, pure and proper. If done well, the {{fandom}} will [[AndTheFandomRejoiced probably be quite pleased]].

* The anime version of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' left many fans quite bitter over how much it deviated from the source material. Correction, [[MemeticMutation there was no Tsukihime anime]]. There was, however, a manga that retold the original story quite faithfully.

* The 2011 version of ConanTheBarbarian, according to WordOfGod, was intended to be closer to the original Robert E. Howard novels than the 1982 film was. YourMileageMayVary on whether they succeeded in that regard.

* A new anime for ''HunterXHunter'' has been announced for the Fall2011Anime season, to be a retelling from the beginning. Whether or not this turns out to be a "truer" adaptation has yet to be seen.

** This is debatable. At the time, the Adam West series was incredibly faithful to its source comics, and the Burton films were way darker than most of the comics at the time, tweaked Batman's origin story and the Joker's past, and showed Batman acting out of character in regards to killing.

* Tim Burton's ''[[Film/{{Batman}} Batman]]'' was this to the Adam West series, being darker and moodier. After it suffered AdaptationDecay and became LighterAndSofter ChristopherNolan's ''TheDarkKnightSaga'' became this in it's own right.

* ''[[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' seems like it's headed this way. Peter's in high school, Gwen's his first girlfriend, he has mechanical webshooters, his parents have a mysterious past, he's a jokester, etc.

* ''[[TheAmazingSpiderman The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' seems like it's headed this way. Peter's in high school, Gwen's his first girlfriend, he has mechanical webshooters, his parents have a mysterious past, he's a jokester, etc.

* Tim Burton's ''[[Film/Batman Batman]]'' was this to the Adam West series, being darker and moodier. After it suffered AdaptationDecay and became LighterAndSofter ChristopherNolan's ''TheDarkKnightSaga'' became this in it's own right.

* The first two ''Film/HarryPotter'' films are noticeably closer to the text than the movies the followed. On the SlidingScaleOfAdaptationDecay, the first two movies would score a "4" and the rest would score a "3". Fans are divided over which approach was better. Critics are less divided and prefer the later films (except for RogerEbert).

* TheAmazingSpiderMan seems like it's headed this way. Peter's in high school, Gwen's his first girlfriend, he has mechanical webshooters, his parents have a mysterious past, he's a jokester, etc.

* TheAmazingSpider-Man seems like it's headed this way. Peter's in high school, Gwen's his first girlfriend, he has mechanical webshooters, his parents have a mysterious past, he's a jokester, etc.

* The anime version of ''{{Tsukihime}}'' left many fans quite bitter over how much it deviated from the source material. Correction, [[MemeticMutation there was no Tsukihime anime]]. There was, however, a manga that retold the original story quite faithfully.

* The first two ''Film/HarryPotter'' are noticeably closer to the text than the movies the followed. On the SlidingScaleOfAdaptationDecay, the first two movies would score a "4" and the rest would score a "3". Fans are divided over which approach was better. Critics are less divided and prefer the later films (except for RogerEbert).

* ''[[BramStokersDracula Bram Stoker's Dracula]]'' and ''[[MaryShelleysFrankenstein Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'' were intended as faithful adaptations of two books that had been quite heavily changed in previous film adaptations. They had their own changes and quirks, though.