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Originally Posted by T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!
Why WOULDN'T Hollywood want to make a movie that appeals to the real fans? I mean if they are basically making a movie for people that don't really "keep up" with the franchise the way we do then why wouldn't they make it as close to the source material as possible?
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While I whole heartedly agree with that entire rant, it's actually because of movies like John Carter of Mars, or Scott Pilgrim, or even Kick Ass 2. Movies that were very faithful to the source material, but didn't make
enough money, what ever that means.
It's also because they make a very simple, but inaccurate assumption.
"So the circulation of comicbook 'x' is around 20,000 copies a month. That means if we made a movie, that was exactly the same as this comic, we might get 20,000 people interested, but only 10% could be counted on in attendance. To engage the people who just aren't interested in comicbook's, we need to leave out all the nerdy bits, and make it BETTER, more ACCESSIBLE."
The flawed logic that if you're not reading the comics, you must not be interested, therefore there is a problem with the comics, that they should "fix".
It's also that really annoying catch all phrase, that EVERYONE seems to accept as fact "The audience today needs more/won't buy it/is more sophisticated/fill in the blank"
The precise reason they just had to change the ending of Watchmen.