History Main / DisownedAdaptation

** Tolkien's third son Christopher disliked the way Creator/NewLineCinema handled the film adaptations of [=LOTR=], describing them in a 2012 interview as "action movies for 15 to 25 year olds". On the other hand, Christopher's son Simon (Tolkien's grandson) had nothing but positive things to say about the films, which unfortunately caused a rift between him and his father until their reconciliation in 2012.

* Creator/ArchieComics was less than thrilled with the amount of raunchy humor in ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats2001'', and even posted [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010811130900/http://www.archiecomics.com/josies_house/movie_banners/movie_banner_template2.html a letter]] on their website that both politely complained about it and tried to reassure families who might want to take their kids to see it. On home video, Universal released the film in two versions: the PG-13-rated theatrical cut and a more family-friendly PG-rated cut that removed most of the profanity and innuendos, including the "pussy" {{Double Entendre}}s.

* Creator/CormacMcCarthy [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160406153504/www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572 thought the adaptation]] of ''Literature/AllThePrettyHorses'' by Creator/BillyBobThornton could have been better, but contrary to the people who worked on the film claiming that the original 4 hour-long cut was a masterpiece before ExecutiveMeddling forced it to be cut down to two hours, he was doubtful that it would have made it any better, believing that Thornton trying to totally replicate the book was a pointless endeavor because books and films are different mediums, and so he should have picked out the story he wanted to tell from the text and put it up on the screen instead.

* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20100201173301/https://www.ursulakleguin.com/Earthsea.html loathed]]'' the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]]'s ''Series/{{Earthsea}}'' miniseries, purportedly based on her ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' novels. She particularly hated that they {{Race Lift}}ed the brown Ged into a fairly generic white ActionHero. The producers essentially baited her into signing over the filming rights with false promises that she would have a great amount of control over the adaptation, only to gradually cut her completely out of the creative process and straight up ignore her repeated attempts to point her concerns over the script. She was especially angered by the TV creators' false claims that she approved of the adaptation. Calling one of the genre's staunchest feminists "Miss Le Guin" didn't help, either.

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' co-creator Peter Laird has declared that ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'' does not exist as far as he's concerned, and that goes double for the polarizing Venus de Milo. Kevin Eastman on the other hand likes Venus and hopes that she makes a comeback one day.

* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin has expressed some dissatisfaction regarding the later seasons of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', the adaptation of his book series ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Martin was initially involved quite heavily with the show -- he even wrote an episode of each of the first four seasons -- but claimed that the showrunners began distancing themselves by season five (when it [[OvertookTheManga overtook the books]]), and pretty much ran the show themselves from seasons six to eight. The decoupling got to the point that Martin has confirmed that the plot of upcoming books [[https://ew.com/books/george-r-r-martin-says-next-song-of-ice-and-fire-novel-different-from-game-of-thrones/ will diverge significantly from the show]], even though it was previously claimed that he gave some hints to the showrunners regarding how the series ends (although it's unknown what kind of hints he gave in the first place, and whether they were faithfully followed). However, Martin did serve as a co-creator for the prequel series ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', suggesting that while he was disappointed by how ''[=GoT=]'' turned out, he did not completely disown it.

* Similar to the "Blue Moon" story mentioned above, one biography of Music/IrvingBerlin claimed that he loathed Music/ElvisPresley's cover of "White Christmas" to the point of trying to get radio stations to boycott it. However, [[https://silentmovieblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/elvis-presley-irving-berlin-and-white-christmas/ later research]] debunked the claim, which traces to a single acquaintance of Berlin interviewed decades after the fact.

* Tomonobu Itagaki, the outspoken director of the 2004 Platform/{{Xbox}} reboot of ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'', disowns the Platform/PlayStation3 version (''Ninja Gaiden Sigma'') that Team Ninja later produced without his involvement. He has vocally disapproved of the port, even while he was still employed by Creator/{{Tecmo}}, and has reportedly refused to autograph any copy of the game. Specifically, he criticized ''Sigma'' for being more or less a straight port of his original Xbox version and not taking advantage of the superior hardware specs of the [=PS3=].

* Following their departure from the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series, original developers Creator/NaughtyDog have given mixed feelings towards other developers' attempts at recreating the franchise. Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells states that "It's a little bit like watching your daughter do porn". On the other hand, character designer Charles Zembillas actually liked Crash's redesign at the hands of Creator/RadicalEntertainment, actually desiring further involvement in the series while co-creator Andy Gavin at the very least praises ''VideoGame/CrashBash'' for staying true to the original games. Luckily, Naughty Dog was quite impressed by Vicarious Visions' work on the ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy N. Sane Trilogy]]'' remasters of the [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996 original]] [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack 3]] [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped games]].

* According to [[https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/animaniacs-hulu-revival-review-creator-interview-1088188/ this article]], original ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' co-creator Tom Ruegger is dissatisfied with [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 the 2020 revival]] (its greater use of topical humor especially), along with how neither he nor many of the show's original staff were given the chance to work on it, and the absence of most of the recurring cast other than the cameos in "Good Warner Hunting". Both him and Sherri Stoner also particularly disliked the fact that the original show's characters are shown as dead hunting trophies in the aforementioned episode. To be fair, according to [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/arts/television/animaniacs-hulu.html another article]], he ''was'' later offered a chance to write a script for the reboot, but declined because "basically it would be like an audition and I just didn't feel comfortable auditioning for a show that I created."
* Francesca Simon, author of the ''Literature/HorridHenry'' books admitted to not being very fond either the ''WesternAnimation/HorridHenry'' animated series or ''Film/HorridHenryTheMovie'' (neither of which she had much involvement in either), saying that neither bear any resemblance to the source material.

* Vera Caspary was mostly displeased with the film adaptation of her novel ''Literature/{{Laura}}''. Though she praised certain aspects, like the flashback structure, she strongly disagreed with Creator/{{Otto Preminger}}'s interpretations of the characters.

* Vera Caspary was mostly displeased with the film adaptation of her novel ''Literature/{{Laura}}''. Though she praised certain aspects, like the flashback structure, she strongly disagreed with Otto Preminger's interpretations of the characters.

* One of the most extreme examples of this is Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'', based on Creator/RobertCrumb's [[ComicBook/FritzTheCat work]]. Crumb hated the film so much [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun he killed the character off and refused to reuse him ever again]]. He also wasn't too fond of the documentary ''Crumb'' either.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryWillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' was an obvious AshcanCopy made by Warner Bros. so they wouldn't lose the license to [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the 1971 film]]. It was so disliked by the Dahl estate that they actually revoked the license rights and gave it to Netflix.

* Jerry Rees, who directed ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', has admitted to not having seen [[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterToTheRescue either of]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterGoesToMars the two]] DirectToVideo sequels. He doesn't have an opinion of the films themselves, but he was disappointed at all the hard work that he and his crew poured into his movie becoming just another cash grab.

--> "I would have liked the Hulk to be smaller in the [[Film/{{Hulk}} first]] [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 two movies]], and I didn't like the way Doctor Doom was portrayed in ''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2005}}''. Now with ''Film/{{Daredevil|2003}}'', they just wrote the whole thing wrong. They made him too tragic. That's not the way I wrote him."

* Creator/DrSeuss' widow, Audrey Geisel, was so disgusted by the 2003 film adaptation of ''[[Film/TheCatInTheHat Cat in the Hat]]'' starring Creator/MikeMyers that she forbade any live-action adaptations of her husband's works to be made again for the rest of her life.

** Bob Layton, co-writer of such stories as "Demon in the Bottle" and "Armor Wars", only liked the first ''Film/IronMan1'' film. [[http://www.boblayton.com/interview-with-bob-by-dolmen-magazine/ His reasons for despising the sequels]] include hatred for Justin Hammer's AdaptationalComicRelief and AdaptationalWimp in ''Film/IronMan2'' (going from TheChessmaster and a DiabolicalMastermind to a KnowNothingKnowItAll BigBadWannabe who wants to be Tony Stark), felt that what was done with Hammer was an AudienceColoringAdaptation to the character's detriment, felt like ''2'' relied too much on armors, and felt like ''Film/IronMan3'' was a G-rated ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' that made Tony come across as an idiot. Creator/JohnByrne also hated the third movie's [[spoiler:Mandarin twist]].

* Creator/AlexProyas, director of ''Film/TheCrow'', was always opposed to the idea of remaking it, feeling that it would've been disrespectful to the memory of Creator/BrandonLee, who suffered an infamous case of FatalMethodActing on set. Sure enough, when the first images from the remake were release, he [[https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3802157/bad-hair-day-original-the-crow-director-alex-proyas-shares-his-thoughts-on-reboot-images/ joked]] that it looked like "Eric Draven [was] having a bad hair day."

* Creator/ToeiAnimation evidently has something against ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', given how often they send out copyright strikes against the series. They also forced Creator/{{Funimation}} to remove Creator/TeamFourStar from a dubbed episode of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZKai Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters]]''.

* Creator/AkiraToriyama was generally quite positive regarding most adaptations of ''Manga/DragonBall'', but had certain aspects he disliked:

* Creator/AkiraToriyama is generally quite positive regarding most adaptations of ''Manga/DragonBall'', but has certain aspects he dislikes:
** While Toriyama has heavily praised the anime for the most part, and considers it to be as important as the manga, he criticized it for [[AdaptationalHeroism downplaying the more negative parts of Goku's personality]]:

* The cast members of the original ''[[Series/MissionImpossible Mission: Impossible]]'' television series '''despised''' the [[Film/MissionImpossible1996 movie]] starring Creator/TomCruise for how [[spoiler:it turned [[BigGood Jim Phelps]] into a treacherous villain.]] Creator/PeterGraves was even offered the chance to reprise the role, but he turned it down in disgust. In addition, Creator/MartinLandau (Rollin Hand) and Creator/GregMorris (Barney Collier) were also quite critical about the movie, with Morris actually storming out of the movie premiere in anger before the film actually ended.

* When the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheIceAgeAdventuresOfBuckWild'' (which was not produced by Creator/BlueSkyStudios, but outsourced to a different animation studio by Creator/{{Disney}}) was released (not even a year after Blue Sky was shut down by Disney), many former Blue Sky animators expressed displeasure towards the ''extremely'' noticeable drop in quality of the animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryWillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' was an obvious AshcanCopy made by Warner Bros. so they wouldn't lose the license to [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the 1971 film]]. It was so disliked by the Dahl estate that they actually revoked the license rights and gave it to Netflix instead.

* Creator/HayaoMiyazaki disowned New World Pictures' {{Macekre}} version of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', titled ''Warriors of the Wind'', and refused to allow any of his other works to be dubbed for many years. By 1997, however, Creator/{{Disney}} negotiated with Tokuma Shoten, the then-owner of Miyazaki's own Creator/StudioGhibli, to release the films unedited. Studio Ghibli was so serious about this that for ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', one of the producers mailed a ''katana'' to Miramax's Harvey Weinstein, along with a note reading [[{{Pun}} "NO CUTS"]] upon the agreement.