Author Scott Delahunt

Remakes of popular films have it rough; the production staff needs to balance the expectations of existing fans while still working to get new viewers in.

Released sixty-five years after the strip’s debut, The Peanuts Movie was the first to present the classic characters using computer animation.

This TV season, Lethal Weapon returned as a TV series. Its biggest challenge is to recapture the onscreen chemistry between Riggs and Murtaugh.

In the tabletop role-playing game industry, Dungeons & Dragons is the 800 pound gorilla, the game that the general population knows by name.

The new Magnum, is a sequel, as mentioned. John Rogers has said that Tom Selleck is too iconic as Magnum to replace.

The new MacGuyver still needs a few episodes to get comfortable in its own skin.

One of the panels was called “Adapting Literary Works to Television and Movies”, so, naturally, I had to go.

Star Trek: The Animated Series transcended the Saturday morning cartoon format, bringing back the crew of the Enterprise to boldly go, once again, where no man has gone before.

The new Electra Woman and Dyna Girl is very much a product of now, much as the original was a product of the 70s.

Overall, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game not only makes the effort to recreate the TV series, it succeeds.

There are good adaptations out there, but it takes effort.

Unlike the Good and the Bad, the Weird show how adaptations can misfire and still cleave close to the original work.

These are films that managed to miss the point so much, they made audiences wonder what was being adapted.

After five years, Lost in Translation has seen a number of adaptations, the good, the bad, the mixed.

The live action Transformers was announced in 2005. Fan reaction was mixed.

The LEGO Movie is probably the best toy adaptation made.

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.