Lost in Translation

Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett is a complicated character, fighting his old desires and reputation to be accepted.

A Knight’s Tale, while tagged as Action, Adventure, and Romance on Netflix, is a sports movie at heart.

BattleTech, at its core, is a wargame featuring giant robots stomping across the battlefield.

Stephen D. Sullivan achieves the impossible with his novelization of Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Dr. No was filmed with a low budget compared to the films that would follow.

WandaVision has the task of taking a character arc from the late 80s and bringing it over to a cinematic universe that has been going in its own direction for over a decade.

Each episode of Visions explores Star Wars, playing with concepts and adapting them to both anime and to Japanese culture and history.

It’s a new year! There are plans in the works for Lost in Translation, some that can be announced now.

Getting the obvious out of the way first, Marvel superheroes are represented by half the films in the list.

If entertainment centres are shut down, streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime can fill in the gaps.

Cyberpunk 2077: Where’s Johnny mixes up elements from tabletop and video game, mixes them up, and provides a story that fits in

Shadowrun would be a challenge for a studio to adapt, but the setting is rich enough to make the effort pay off.

Suffice to say, BattleTech provides a wide range of potential for adaptations.

Unlike Dragonlance, the Forgotten Realms had no ongoing plot, just various organizations both good and evil plotting.

Over the next few weeks, Lost in Translation will be looking at how to adapt settings from tabletop RPGs.

In the case of Mechwarrior: Age of Destruction, the enthusiasm of the students guided by the people responsible for creating the setting results in a video that represents the original work, a video worth watching.

The new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is a reboot of the classic Eighties cartoon.

The 2020 series makes an effort to update The Hardy Boys while still keeping to the core.

Bond represents a problem Star Wars and Star Trek didn’t have – he is a contemporary character.

Note that rebooting is not the same as a creating a new series.