Author Scott Delahunt

The short version, adaptations continued to dominate the silver screen.

The Real Ghostbusters ran from 1986 until 1991, undergoing a title change to Slimers and the Real Ghostbusters in its third season.

The movie is more than just an extended episode of AbFab, but doesn’t lose what made the TV series a cult favourite.

While Young Frankenstein is a parody, it builds off the original, using Frankenstein as the base to hang the jokes on while still keeping the mood.

The cast isn’t the only factor turning the movie into a success. The scope of the film is epic, despite focusing on Clark.

Captain America and its sequel are very much Seventies-era made-for-TV movies, suffering from budget limitations.

The new Ghostbusters has fun with the material, which is what is expected with an action-comedy.

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.