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Mrph1
MOD
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2023-07-18 15:12:48
The Miss Marple adaptations tend to do the same thing, so I was just looking for the same trope...
It's not on the adaptation trope index, though, so it may not exist.
Kayube
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2023-07-18 20:08:22
There's Sequel First, but that seems to be specific to works being released in a different order in other parts of the world... however, its trope list does include the Dan Brown example.

Do we have a trope for when multiple story installments (such as novels in a series) are adapted into another medium, but the adapted installments are in a different order than the original installments, leading to parts of the story being changed or recontextualized in order to accommodate the new sequence of events?
I know of this happening in the early Eon James Bond films (before the adaptations became In Name Only), and I know The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons were adapted out of order as well. I see descriptions of this phenomenon on pages for these works, but not a trope that is specific to it.