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(Certainly no attempts to wrest the franchise away from its creators recent pivot toward anti-trans bigotry.)
What I am proposing, though, is what if itsnot?
What if, actually, faithfulness is bad because it is stay with me here impossible and boring?!
For starters, the entire concept is simply false.
The dream of a faithful adaptation is a work that makes no choices of its own.
It is pure translation, a one-to-one, frictionless transfer of energy from one work into another.
What could possibly be the problem?
Casting someone as Harry Potter requires deciding what Harry Potter looks like.
But treating faithfulness as the chief value of an adaptation is a creative dead end.
(John Williamss score alone would be enough for those movies to count as individualized artistic productions).
Its empty of any purpose except to make money.
