Creator-Preferred Adaptation

Let's face it: Most of the time, a work is at its best in its original form. However, sometimes there are exceptions to this, and be it by Adaptation Distillation, Woolseyism or Superlative Dubbing, the new version of a story comes out so much better than the old that even the original creator admits the superiority of the new one.

Contrast Disowned Adaptation.

Examples of Creator-Preferred Adaptation include:

Anime and Manga

Film

  • Chuck Palahniuk prefers the ending of the film version of Fight Club to his own.
  • Christopher Priest, the author of the original novel of The Prestige had this reaction to seeing the movie: "'Well, holy shit.' I was thinking, 'God, I like that,' and 'Oh, I wish I'd thought of that.'"
  • Stephen King, in an interview on the DVD of The Mist, says that he liked the movie's ending better than that of the original story, and wishes he'd thought of it himself.
  • Mark Millar has said that the Kick-Ass movie is superior to the comic book.
  • Gary Wolf preferred the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? to the novel he wrote, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, upon which it was based. He loved it so much that when he wrote a sequel to the film, he retconned the first story as a dream.
  • J. K. Rowling has said that there are some things in the Harry Potter movies which she wished she had made up when she wrote the books. The only such thing she has named specifically is the talking shrunken head from the third film. Ironically, the fandom tends to regard the shrunken head as The Scrappy.
  • David Morrell preferred the ending of the First Blood film as Rambo doesn't die... thus allowing for sequels that ended up making him millions.

Literature

  • Umberto Eco thinks that William Weaver's English translations of his novels are better than the originals.

Music

  • Trent Reznor, describing hearing Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt", stated that "that song isn't mine anymore."
  • After Jimi Hendrix released his cover of "All Along the Watchtower", Bob Dylan publicly stated that he was going to start playing the Hendrix version instead of his own in the future.

Video Games

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