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When something goes from one medium to another, it's because of two elements: 1. * It's popular! 2. * Producers like money! Moving something to a new medium is a way of breathing new life into an existing product which generates two things. New revenue from the fans, and new revenue from potential fans who for one reason or another never were into it in its original medium, but might get into it here. See also: In Name Only for the more extreme New Blood cases, or They Changed It, Now It Sucks and Pandering to the Base for the more extreme Old Guard cases.

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  • When something goes from one medium to another, it's because of two elements: 1. * It's popular! 2. * Producers like money! Moving something to a new medium is a way of breathing new life into an existing product which generates two things. New revenue from the fans, and new revenue from potential fans who for one reason or another never were into it in its original medium, but might get into it here. See also: In Name Only for the more extreme New Blood cases, or They Changed It, Now It Sucks and Pandering to the Base for the more extreme Old Guard cases.
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  • When something goes from one medium to another, it's because of two elements: 1. * It's popular! 2. * Producers like money! Moving something to a new medium is a way of breathing new life into an existing product which generates two things. New revenue from the fans, and new revenue from potential fans who for one reason or another never were into it in its original medium, but might get into it here. This is where the problem arises. Take for instance a comic book being turned into a movie. Most comics have up to 70 years of Backstory, cool sequences, and ranging from a handful to an army of cool heroes and villains. All that has to be crammed into a two-hour presentation or the fans are upset. Meanwhile, it has to be perfectly understandable, and -- more importantly -- easy to follow, or else the new blood won't like it. Ultimately this leads to a dangerous balancing act, one that is rarely done right, although producers appear to be getting better at it. You need to throw in enough of the classics and not change things too much or you alienate the fanbase, but at the same time you can't rely on in-jokes or backstory or you'll lose the new blood. While the fanbase may be more loyal, the new blood represents more money for the new genre, so as far as the scale goes it almost always tips to the new blood side. Before continuing, it's important to understand two things. First of all, any examples here are at best subjective. For this reason, an example could show up in more than one location under different arguments. This is allowed. Everything has an implied "arguably" in front of it. Secondly, an example being in any of the three categories does not necessarily indicate that it's bad. A movie that has nothing to do with the original premise can still be enjoyable, as can one that is very hard for newcomers to follow. One common way to balance the scales is to adapt the characters and styles, while only representing the original story in broad strokes, sometimes only keeping parts of the origin story. Most recent Comic Book movies follow this method. See also: In Name Only for the more extreme New Blood cases, or They Changed It, Now It Sucks and Pandering to the Base for the more extreme Old Guard cases.
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