lol thinking like a businesswoman there. nice.
The comic I'm doing right now isn't really plot dependent. As long as they stay true to the characters I don't care if the change the entire plot to something else. I'd love to see a new story with my characters or a new take. Just so long as my baby Hugh is still himself.
Only got the three conditions:
I get my money and share the IP rights for however long this contract lasts (before getting said IP rights back in full). Even then, I want them royalties.
The characters stay the same in appearance. Personality can be flexible if it helps with plot, but appearances are grandfathered in. Like Brenda is still veru much black and very much gay.
Keep the Monster Romance. Is there a love scene in my comic with monsters? Guess what -- we're going all in, my friends.
That's all I ask. My demands are pretty chill, I'd say. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain, so I might as well make the most of it to get the most.
As long as I keep the ownership of the IP and the characters stays faithful to the original work, then by all means.
No. Not in a million years. My story is worth more to me as is than it would ever be in another adaptation where it was heavily changed. You could not pay me enough to do anything like that.
Big yes from me. In this scenario since they're approaching me for an adaptation I can't imagine anything core to the narrative being changed too radically- otherwise they wouldn't need to adapt my work and could either find a different author or make their own? Any number of small changes for marketability would be fine. The only changes I can really think of being not okay would be things that start to push it towards a totally different genre or radically change it in other ways in which case... again, at that point it's not an adaptation and they don't really need my story xD
I'd change parts of it, but not the really important events and characters. I understand that some things have to be changed because a novel and a movie have their differences in how they are made. But I've put a lot of thought into my story and why would I change something if I know it's doing well with readers? They can change some parts that might be too expensive in a movie or whatever, but the main plot, messages and characters have to stay.
Mine is fanfiction, so a lot would have to be changed before we could start making money on it. Still, I would want to monitor the changes and approve every single one. My story deals with controversial subject matter involving stigmatized groups (polyamorous people and sex workers) so I'd want to make sure that my core message doesn't get twisted.
Now if the producer/director was also a sex worker and/or a polyamorous person, I'd have a little more trust in them and would let them take more liberties, but I would still want to review the final product before it went out.
I would allow small changes, but they have to tell me what they're changing first, and receive my permission.
I'm very much open to changes to things like story structure to fit the medium. Like when you look at Attack on Titan, the reason the first season of the anime is so much better than the manga is that they were able to look at that whole first arc, then completely restructure it to have much better pacing, setup and payoff, as well as to create pleasingly complete-feeling episodes. Then after season one, the anime famously goes downhill, loses all direction and kind of meanders, and that's because it becomes a much more direct translation of the manga.
Maybe if somebody looks at my comic from a wider vantage once large chunks of it are done, they'll go "Oh, actually, this prologue would work better as a couple of flashbacks later and people watching this as an animated series will want to get to know the main protagonist as an adult first". Fair enough, I'm sure a more experienced writer or editor might have changes that'd be beneficial, so I'm open to hearing them out.
However.... IF a change that was requested really changed the message or some of the characters... then we'd maybe have a disagreement on our hands, depending on what the changes were and the thought process behind them. For example if somebody was like "Okay, it's an action series with a female lead.... hmmm, yeah we think she needs to be sexier. She should wear a sexy outfit with heels and cleavage. And we think she'd be more appealing if her personality was more like Harley Quinn, you know like edgy, making random jokes... yeah!" or my absolute nightmare scenario, "Yeeeah okay so we're trying to market this at a male 13-25 kind of audience and they really don't like this lesbian sjw character, Sarin. We think she should be more like... Rekki's rival for Urien's affection and jealous of her, and like... maybe more of a cute genki Japanese schoolgirl archetype." Yeah if something like that happened, It'd be hard not to be like "STUFF YOUR MONEY UP YOUR ARSE!" 
There are some things I would willing to change for Crow’s Worth. I would be fine with cutting out the blood spit and face slapping. I would also be ok with changing some of the races or skin color for some of the characters.
I would be against them adding characters. I also do not want any romantic tension between my two MCs nor do I want a mother/son dynamic.
I'd absolutely be open to my story being changed as long as I maintained ownership over it, and had the right to veto decisions I would never approve (like sexifying my main character). I'm not a professional comic writer/ artist so to have someone come in and look at my story with fresh eyes and real understanding on how stories are crafted would be amazing.
Plus as it would be a tv/ movie adaption and not a 1-on-1 re-creation, some things would automatically be changed/ shortened/ cut completely. I also have zero experience in movie making so I'd just sit back and let the pros do as they please.
This sounds like the typical sellout scenario. Plenty of hair bands back in the 80s went through this. Funny story I know...
If its a compromise I have to make I'm willing to work with anyone as long its within reasonable term.
Money normally talks to lots of folks. For me, if some producer end up watering down my intended material I just shrug and treat the story as an alt timeline. The best case is to just take the money and leave.
Alt timelines could be another option to consider if the official big screen ended tanking so badly. It's exposure regardless. With the extra money you could fund for new projects or set up an indie studio to create what was the intended vision for the fans. Just be sure to read all the disclaimers before selling out.
I just don't really get what's wrong with "selling out"? I see people throw that around on the forums a lot.
If you're making money, have read the contract (and read it well), and you're satisfied, even happy and proud, with the results (be it bad movie or not), why is it a sell out?
What have I sold?
It depends. If they're only wanting to make minor and insignificant changes to parts of the story, then definitely. Also, I would have to be able to continue fully own the rights to my works as well after the show/movie airs. If they're looking to change the entire story's plot and/or the likenesses of my characters drastically or completely omit important characters, then it's going to be a hard no.
Depends on the changes. Comics and movie/tv shows are different mediums, and what works in one might not work on another, so I understand having to change some things to fit the adaptation. However, I'm not going to approve if they end up changing major parts of the plot and lore and ESPECIALLY the characters.
