Lost in Translation

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is as perfect an adaptation as seen here at Lost in Translation.

This week, instead of reviewing an adaptation, Lost in Translation looks at how to be adapted.

Murder, She Wrote was a light mystery, a cozy, with a well-meaning busybody snooping around when she felt the police had arrested the wrong person.

While the James Bond 007 RPG is out of print, and the Avalon Hill Game Company has folded the Victory Games imprint, the game itself is again available.

The analysis of this decade will have to be redone once it’s over, to take into account films like Deadpool and the Marvel Cinematic Universe offerings.

There is a difference between the Watership Down remake and the Mary Poppins sequel.

BattleTech: The Animated Series aired in 1994. Produced by Saban, the fourteen episode series melded traditional animation with CGI and detailed the exploits of the 1st Somerset Strikers.

What the proposed Tetris movie does have in its favour is Larry Kasanoff, the producer of the Mortal Kombat movie.

Hercules: The Legendary Journey paid lip service to being a proper adaptation.

Any work with a large geek following is fodder for being adapted as a tabletop role-playing game.

The movie Real Steel wasn’t the first adaptation of “Steel.”

Speed Racer has been called a live-action anime, and for good reason.

Audience expectations are a risk with adaptations, more so than original movies.

The main problem the Jem and the Holograms movie has is not being the cartoon.

Supergirl, while meant to be a stand-alone film, still leans heavily on Superman.

Batman Fluxx combines two franchises well, keeping the flavour of both without either being overwhelmed by the other.

While “Casting the Runes” may be too short for a theatrical release, that still leaves a television adaptation open.

“Casting the Runes” may be too short to adapt properly, even for a 95-minute film.

If the rights were available, it wouldn’t be difficult to remake The Last Starfighter and keep the core of the movie intact.

The movie adaptation of The Green Hornet shows some of the problems of copying a copy.