Adapting TV to Movies

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In the future every adaption post will be released only on Saturday due to a much more busy schedule.

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There's been on and off cases of this kind of adaption. One example that comes to mind is the train wreck that was the Wild Wild West Movie starring Will Smith.

Looks like an intense action film, right? Well, this is what it's based off:

Old, odd and hardly intense compared to what we have now. This show was running during the 60s and was adapted in the 90s. It had incredibly mixed reactions since people were split between enjoying a nonsense action film or hating an awful reimagining.

Now that we're delving deeper into the visual adaptations it becomes more apparent that it's just as slippery as book adaptions to be faithful.

But here's an excellent example:

Monty Python's: Life of Brian

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python's: The meaning of Life

And now for something completely Dif

These movies aren't exactly direct adaptations of the TV show, Monty Python's flying circus, but they are directly an adaptation of the writing and comedy style and fits fine with the diversity of the sketches' scenarios.

Not good enough? How about you try this on for size:

Although this is leaning alot more on the American side (American city, American actors, American action) it isn't lacking the Doctor.

In fact that's all that's necessary to make a Doctor Who movie and that's the Doctor.

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I should probably come clean at this point that in order to make a good adaption of a TV show to a movie it should be known that making a longer than usual episode isn't enough. It's better to somehow provide an interesting revelation to the main conflict that the TV show has setup to be satisfying.