lrt - guess it's really time for me to get back to my live action atla adaptation thought experiment thread

b/ryke exiting could be a good thing, since their egos have been getting in the way of their stories for awhile. But it could also be a bad thing. Once again, i REALLY hope netflix gives the reigns to asian and indigenous creatives

at their best, adaptations aren't "remakes" but are opportunities to interrogate and engage the source material in new ways, and in changing societal contexts.

There are, of course, creators who can adapt or expand their work without creative blinders, and even if they CAN'T, it's important to not pretend they weren't instrumental to the thing we love's existence, even if we dislike them as people & believe their story grew beyond them.

Also important to remember that original creatives exiting a project can be in service to a story, but just as easily be in service to corporate cashgrabs. And one can slip into the other sometimes, unfortunately (see: the promising beginning and sharp decline of disney era sw).

however, in my opinion atla always owed so much more to asian & indigenous story traditions (perceived thru a diaspora lense????) than to bryke as individuals. So that makes me hopeful...

Before seeing this news, I'd just watched the fanmade "Bel-Air" trailer that will smith is now going to turn into an actual show, and (as @enfysblessed said after linking it in our gc) it's an example of how a good story can transcend genre/format (.5 hour sitcom vs 1 hour drama)

It's valuable to re-explore stories that have become constructed myths of our pop culture landscape. It's important to consider this in conversations about plethoras of remakes. I like to distinguish adaptations from "reboots" & "remakes." The discourse doesnt bow to me, ofc.

I really started appreciating the joys of multiple adaptations of completed canons after watching The Untamed and then reading the novel it's based on & its ongoing comic book adaptation, and watching the available seasons of it's half hour cartoon adaptation.

The Untamed is the most different both stucturally & content-wise, but each of them has their own distinct canon even as they all tell the same story with broadly the same plot and character arc outcomes.

Before getting this i was much more fixated on One True Adaptations that make any additonal ones obsolete. But Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice doesn't make 1995 BBC P&P obsolete any more than it makes another creative's take on the story "unnecessary."

There are no "necessary" or "unnecessary" adaptations (or sequels, or indeed ANY piece of media), only ones that do or do not have a clear vision and execute that goal well or badly.