I think we should remove examples that overlap with Adaptation Overdosed (like Dracula and Alice In Wonderland); they probably fit better under Lost in Imitation or Adaptation Decay than this trope.
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Still Dracula by nature has proven hard to get right in non-printed media which is the nature of this trope.
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Really? There's been tons of adaptations to film, television and other non-printed media formats. If it's just aspects of a work that are hard to adapt or are Adapted Out, that seems more like Lost in Imitation to me (most Dracula adaptations are based on the play rather than the novel)
There’s tons of adaptations yes but even a play can’t do justice the structure of the book. It’s not really lost in imitation, more that the the book is simply written in an effective way that cannot be translated into any medium beyond print.
Even comic adaptations can’t nail it.
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By the way, while I'm here, should we put Uchu Sentai Kyuranger and Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger (or just the former) on here, due to Simon Benett saying they won't get adapted. The former because of its massive Ranger lineup and the latter because "cops are controversial/Rangers can't be thieves" (paraphrased).
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Does Uncharted really belong on this page? While I do enjoy the games, they're pretty much borderline interactive movies with generic plots and character archetypes, I don't think they would be that hard to adapt as movies.
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It may be redundant, but not necessarily hard to adapt. I guess I agree.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
To quote its listing in the Uncharted YMMV:
Since the series' plots and visuals are already so film-like, you'd just be condensing what's already there from a 15 hour product to a 2.5 hour one, at the expense of the series's meticulous character work.
It maybe movie like, but there's a lot of material to work with.
Someone removed the Disney Live-Action Remakes example, but I definitely feel they worthy of being here. They’re prime examples of something struggling to recapture what made the source material good.
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