Lost in Translation

Created by Ian Fleming and first published in 1953, James Bond has appeared in 57 books, including 43 by other authors, at least 29 movies, and in comics.

St. Trinian’s updated the source while remaining true to both the cartoon strip and The Belles of St. Trinian’s.

The movie of the series is a perfect example of adapting properly.

For adaptations, this reversal of roles means that television is the better medium, especially for long-form works like novels.

What happens when a film made on the cheap gets a budget? Let’s look at the Roger Corman classic, Death Race 2000.

Get Smart, though, was more than the gadgets. Like many good parodies, like Airplane!, the characters took the situations seriously.

What helped Cortex be flexible enough for the range of adapted works is its simplicity.

Deadpool set out to correct the problems with the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

With some works, though, choosing an iconic moment to tell is difficult.

The biggest problem the 2015 Jem had was obvious – it wasn’t the cartoon.

A while back, Lost in Translation reviewed the 2015 Jem and the Holograms film. Today, let’s look at the cartoon that people were expecting to be the base of that film.

Given that Godzilla was meant for a younger Saturday morning audience, Hanna-Barbera succeeded in what they set out to do.

Despite being in its twenty-fourth season, the studio went back to the beginning, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Nancy Drew was aimed at the same audience that the books are, but made sure that the clues were there to be seen by viewers as well as Nancy herself.

“Rinse the Blood Off My Toga” is a hard-boiled detective story using Julius Caesar as the starting point.

A localization is an adaptation remade for a new audience, taking into account what the culture that the audience lives in.

Wells’s War of the Worlds was first published in 1897 as a serial and told from a first-person perspective as a journal by the narrator.

The critical issue with a Lethal Weapon TV series, though, is the chemistry between the leads.

The result is a well-done adaptation that demonstrates how to adapt well.

Of special note, Starship Excelsior ran a Kickstarter campaign to create an episode for the fiftieth anniversary of /Star Trek/’s first airing.