Why do they change the storyline?
Why do producers change the storyline when they take a book/comic book and make it into a movie/ TV show?
I mean, I've been watching the walking dead since 2010 and I recently read all the comic book issues. I can understand why they didn't put some really brutal scenes in the TV show, but why did they have to change the storyline?
I could understand if they wanted to add stuff if there weren't enough on the comic book to make the TV show last, but there are like 10 seasons alone that could be made from the comic book issues and it is far from ending.
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There can be numerous reasons. You have to remember that media like TV shows and film have to cover stories in a far more restricted timeframe than print media can. This means they can't dwell on story lines or certain characters for too long. This May result in shallower character development, characters being dropped, added, or altered. You may also have content considerations, as you've already noted. Sometimes the writers change things to keep those that have read the source material on their toes, or to make things more relatable to those who haven't read the source material.
In the end there can be many reasons why shows like The Walking Dead have the changes they do. I simply recommend viewing them as two separate items entirely. The comic book writer is telling his story, the show writers are telling theirs.
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Why do filmmakers make changes to the story?
In addition, the narrative limitations can force some scenes to change or even the creation of new ones, instead. Because, ultimately, the only narrators of a movie are the camera and the characters through their dialogues, which leads to true challenges to introduce all the events from a book.Why do directors insist on changing important details when making a book into a movie?
Granted Directors can work with a screenwriter and both of them can write a movie together. Screenplays are 120 pages (more or less) and each page has significantly less words than any book would have. So a book that is being made into a screenplay has to be narrowed down significantly.Why do characters need to change?
Characters change because:The experiences they undergo during the story alter their perception of the world, of other characters, and of themselves. The world is changing around them and they need to adapt. They travel to a new world and need to adapt to it. They're growing older.What is the difference between story and plot in film?
The story is the action of the movie, and the plot is how the story is told. The narrative structure can be either linear or nonlinear. Linear narrative structure is a movie that moves in chronological order.The Story of Change
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There is always a gap to bridge when adapting a book/comic/graphic novel into a TV show. A graphic novel is not addressing the same audience as the TV show. There is even a difference between the ways such literary works are adapted for Movies and TV shows. Given the episodic release format for the shows spanning over different seasons, the makers try to gauge the audience reactions to certain aspects of the show that make it click.
Since you have given the example of The Walking Dead, let's take that under consideration. We can clearly see that the start of the first season is true to the story in the graphic novel. In the first season the only new additions were made by the characters of Daryl and Merle. Since these are new introductions they can be treated as experiments by the writers. If the audiences accept them, they can incorporate them into the story-line. If they aren't they can be easily written off. In this particular case, the audiences loved these characters so much that they became characters around whom entire episodes were filmed. Therefore, the writers can now take the liberty of using such new introductions to further make creative additions.
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