Adapted Out: Difference between revisions

replace franchise link with link to work
(replace redirect, spelling, copyedits, italics on work names)
(replace franchise link with link to work)
 
Line 63:
** In the Robert Downey Jr. version, Irene's divorcing Godfrey, because he snores and was boring.
* Sony's ''[[Peter Rabbit (film)|Peter Rabbit]]'' does this with Josephine Rabbit, Mrs. McGregor, and a few others, some of them only appear in the film's prologue.
* In the [[Harry Potter (film)|film versions]] of the [[Harry Potter (novel)|''Harry Potter'' books]] numerous characters were adapted out. Some are omitted entirely, like Ludo Bagman and Peeves, others are absent in the earlier films, yet show up later when they're important with explanations to explain their absents (Like with Bill and Charlie Weasley), and others (like Nearly Headless Nick and Firenze) appear in earlier films but are absent in the later ones. The same thing occurs in the [[Harry Potter (video game)|video game adaptations]], but there's multiple versions of each game for different platforms, nearly every non-major character that's absent for one game or another without explanation, this leads to many cases of [[Remember the New Guy?]] in later games. Kreacher was almost removed from the script for ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', until the screenwriter heard from Rowling that the house elf was gonna be important later on.
* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' ends up cutting up several human characters and [[Pair the Spares]] by getting two characters, who had their love interests taken out with each other.
* The adaptations of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' various examples: