History Main / DisownedAdaptation

* Henk Rogers, co-founder of The Tetris Company, regrets lending the {{Tetris}} name to ''Tetris Attack'', which was actually a [[DolledUpInstallment modified U.S. version]] of the Super Famicom puzzle game ''PanelDePon''. He doesn't disapprove of the game itself, so much as he felt that publishing it under the Tetris name didn't allow it to stand under its own merits.

-->''I really don’t like saying this, but (the NES version) really wasn’t up to my standards. The care that I put in the original ([=MSX2=] game) wasn’t there. It [the Famicom version] was a more difficult game. In the very beginning, when you go from the entrance into the fortress, for example, there are dogs there. In the Famicom version, the dogs just come after you and you get killed. It was too difficult to get into the fortress. The fun stealth element was not there, and the actual Metal Gear, the robot, doesn’t appear in the game.'' -- '''[[http://www.kojimaproductions.net/features/interviews/hideo-kojima-game-guru-movie-maniac/ Hideo Kojima]]'''

* In a series of {{Twitter}} posts, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' director Mitsuo Fukuda said that he wasn't happy how Banpresto handled ''SEED Destiny'' in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games, especially for ''SuperRobotWarsZ'', apparently due to the FixFic nature of the games.

* In a series of {{Twitter}} posts, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' director Mitsuo Fukuda said that he wasn't happy how Banpresto handled ''SEED Destiny'' was represented in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games, especially for ''SuperRobotWarsZ'', apparently due to the FixFic nature of the games.

* In a series of {{Twitter}} posts, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' director Mitsuo Fukuda said that he wasn't happy how Banpresto handled ''SEED Destiny's'' was represented in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games, especially for ''SuperRobotWarsZ'', apparently due to the FixFic nature of the games.

* {{Pogo}} creator Walt Kelly despised the animated Pogo Birthday TV special made by ChuckJones, mainly for mucking about with what Kelly wanted, and how "he took all the sharpness out of it and put in that sweet, saccharine stuff that Chuck Jones always THINKS is Disney, but isn't." Considering Kelly was a former Disney animator, he wasn't saying that lightly.

* StanislawLem disliked both film versions of his science fiction novel ''{{Solaris}}'', stating that they focus on the human characters too much, and miss the actual theme of his novel, which is the impossibility of comprehending a truly alien intelligence.

* Any adaptation of anything ever written by AlanMoore--''EVER''.

** Zack Snyder, director of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' once said that the best-case scenario of ever getting Moore to watch his movie was that there might come one odd day where Moore accidentally puts the DVD into his player and turns it off after a second. Moore replied to this by saying Snyder was giving the movie too much credit.

* One of the most extreme examples of this trope is Film/FritzTheCat, based on RobertCrumb's [[ComicBook/FritzTheCat work]]. He hated the film so much he killed the character off and refused to reuse him ever again. He also wasn't too fond of the biography movie, ''Crumb''.

* One of the most extreme examples of this trope is FritzTheCat, based on Robert Crumb's work. He hated the film so much he killed the character off and refused to reuse him ever again. He also wasn't too fond of the biography movie, ''Crumb''.

* MichaelEnde requested the ''TheNeverendingStory'' movies to be killed before release or, failing that, not be associated with his name in any way. They did neither.

* Stanislaw Lem disliked both film versions of his science fiction novel ''{{Solaris}}'', stating that they focus on the human characters too much, and miss the actual theme of his novel, which is the impossibility of comprehending a truly alien intelligence.

* Mitsuo Fukuda, in a series of Twitter posts, wasn't happy over how ''MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' was represented in the ''SuperRobotWars'' games (specifically, ''SuperRobotWarsZ''):

* Hayao Miyazaki would like to stress that the {{Macekre}} version of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', titled "Warriors Of The Wind", is much better off forgotten.

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* AynRand hated the 1949 movie version of ''TheFountainhead'', even though the screenplay was written by her and barely altered.

* Similarly to the Live Action listing below, UrsulaKLeGuin also disowned GedoSenki, a StudioGhibli adaptation of... some of the Earthsea books. Her initial response can be read [[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html here]]. But she did stress she liked many things about it. "It is not my book. It is your movie. It is a good movie."

This trope is limited to works that were adapted while the creator of the original was still alive. We might like to think of some posthumous adaptations that the authors were rolling in their graves, but we'll never know what they really think.

* Similarly to the Live Action listing below, UrsulaKLeGuin also disowned GedoSenki, a StudioGhibli adaptation of... some of the Earthsea books. Her initial response can be read [[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html here]]

* Any adaptation of anything ever written by AlanMoore--''EVER''[[hottip:*:Well, with the exception of the episode of ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' that adapted his comic ''ForTheManWhoHasEverything'', but that's not really film, now is it?]].

* Any adaptation of anything ever written by AlanMoore--''EVER''.

* RoaldDahl allegedly hated the film version of ''TheWitches'' so much that he stood outside cinemas with a megaphone telling people not to watch.

* RoaldDahl was apparently so angry with ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' that he left it in his will that ''CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'' could never be made into a movie.

* StanislawLem disliked both film versions of his science fiction novel ''{{Solaris}}'', stating that they focus on the human characters too much, and miss the actual theme of his novel, which is the impossibility of comprehending a truly alien intelligence.