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** The 2018 adaptation of ''[[Peter Rabbit (film)|Peter Rabbit]]'' took a [[Peter Rabbit|classic book character]] and transformed him in an [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]. It also rebooted the original plot and replaced what [[Beatrix Potter]] put to make the character lovable with [[We're Still Relevant, Dammit!|cheap pop culture gags]]. Somehow it managed to avoid being a flop, but it's still marred by the controversy surrounding a scene where the [[Designated Villain]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|is deliberately assaulted with stuff he is deathly allergic to by the titular character]].

** The 2018 film version of ''[[Venom (comic book)|Venom]]''. Sony decided to pull a ''[[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]]'' and made a film about one of [[Spider-Man]] most emblematic enemies, in a way that completely removes Spider-Man involvement on the character (for the ones not in the know, in the comics Spider-man is ''completely vital'' in the birth of Venom). In a subversion, the film managed to be somewhat successful, albeit mostly because the people ignored Sony marketing the film as a horror take on superheroism and took it as a dark comedy buddy film between [[A Boy and His X|a man and his killer alien symbiotic thing that combine into a killer antihero]].

* ''[[The Producers]]'' has it both in-universe and in Real Life. The plot is about greedy producers deliberately engineering a musical who alienates public so much so they can pocket their overshare, only to be thwarted by [[Springtime for Hitler|the public taking the show as a parody]]. In real life, the distributors were very hesitant on a film that dealt with both Nazis and [[greedy Jew]]ish [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|corrupt theater producers]] and underpromoted it. As a result the film only recovered costs, but gave Mel Brooks an [[Academy Award]] for Best Original Script that opened the doors to a long and successful career to him, and the story itself got a second, better chance for success when it was adapted into a Broadway musical (which was recursively adapted in a film).

* ''[[The Producers]]'' has it both in-universe and in Real Life. The plot is about greedy producers deliberately engineering a musical who alienates public so much so they can pocket their overshare, only to be thwarted by [[Springtime for Hitler|the public taking the show as a parody]]. In real life, the distributors were very hesitant on a film that dealt with both Nazis (even if [[Those Wacky Nazis|wacky ones]]) and [[greedy Jew]]ish [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|corrupt theater producers]] and underpromoted it. As a result the film only recovered costs, but gave Mel Brooks an [[Academy Award]] for Best Original Script that opened the doors to a long and successful career to him, and the story itself got a second, better chance for success when it was adapted into a Broadway musical (which was recursively adapted in a film).

* ''[[United Passions]]'' is a film about [[The Beautiful Game|football soccer]], centered on ''the federation excecutives'' rather than the actual players. That alone gave people very good reasons to refuse to see it, even before the publid knew it was an excecrable film in many other ways.

== Literature ==