If you're adapting an author's work, then your one job is to bring the author's vision to life as closely as possible. Any changes in appearance, personality, events, etc, is you failing to uphold your end of the bargain, and is a testament of your disrespect for the original material. Any fans of the franchise should be criticizing it and calling it out.
If you're adapting an author's work, then your one job is to bring the author's vision to life as closely as possible. Any changes in appearance, personality, events, etc, is you failing to uphold your end of the bargain, and is a testament of your disrespect for the original material. Any fans of the franchise should be criticizing it and calling it out.