Would you let a company adapt your story badly if they paid you

[jmhenry]

Money is nice and all but in the long run I have too much respect to let someone else ruin my story, I can do that myself thank you very much.

When you have a passion project that you've spent years developing, no amount of money could sway you. There are plenty of other professions out there if money was the only end goal

[33rdCenturyCaveman]

but has anyone ever offered you no amount of money

[Redsheis]

well now, you have gotten my attention good sir

[JamesLSarandis]

If I could quit my job and stay home with my family which would give me even more time ho create new things 100% absolutely.

[k5rakitan]

My story is already hated by a lot of people, so they can't make it too much worse! I'll take the money, assuming they handle all the legal issues over it being fanfiction. I'll use it to commission more illustrations for the original version

[herhumanist]

For me, I don't think I would want to let a company make a trashy adaptation of my story.
The thought of having a horrible version of your story and where everyone agrees how terrible it is, which in turns makes everyone hate your story makes me shiver lol!
The quality of the work is very important to consider, even if the money is very promising!

[AVXP]

which in turns makes everyone hate your story makes me shiver lol!

So are we now adding new twists to the scenario?
Okay so after they turn and hate your story, they turn and hate you.
And then they turn and hate your significant other...
and then they turn and hate your pets....
and then, then they turn some more....lol

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I guess this is also the part where we are considering that a bunch of us only have one good idea....
and if that goes, then you have nothing?

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What about a done series?
Finished and you've moved on to a different IP.....
Do we want to still keep that archive pure? lol

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I mean a bunch of artists are doing reboots and basically trashing their series and starting over....
What if another artist (and writer and publisher) wanted to take over your old story (IP) and breathe new life into it?

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Like, for instance, it was their original idea, but it was SOOO similar to yours, they had to ask for rights so they wouldn't be sued. BUT- you don't like their similar concept.

[MochoStudios]

Well for meh adaptions like avatar or batman the killing joke
People always say the book was better which would make people appreciate the original more after checking it out

[herhumanist]

No, I'm not twisting the scenario. When I say "makes everyone hate your story", I literally mean everyone hating your story. I wasn't branching into people ending up hating an individual, a significant other, your pets, etc lol. If something like that were to happen, that would be very unreasonable on the readers/viewers part!

If people are gonna see a terrible version of your story, and they hate it, they're gonna hate that story. And I said it makes me shiver because for me personally, what i create is very personal to me haha

And also I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make because I am just stating a personal opinion of how I would feel about creating a trashy adaptation of my story in exchange for good money and pretty much nothing else besides that.

But! If you could or would like to elaborate bit more, I would really appreciate it ^o^

[herhumanist]

ah shoot! I must've missed a word or two in your original post. lol so sorry about that! I was so confused earlier as to why people were pointing out the part where I said I wouldn't want people to hate my story.

I reread the question, and yeah, it's true that there are horrible adaptations of media such as avatar.
But there are, of course, people who still turn to the original anyway and stick with that.

For some reason, I read the statement and thought about a story that was not yet published but then horribly created and released, which is why I made the original statement lol
I think my original statement could still hold true to some extent if the original source was practically unknown or has a very small fanbase and then was released for mainstream consumption.

But yeah, ig my answer would still be no haha

[herhumanist]

I checked back the original post and it seems like I misread it lol.

I get what you're saying and I answered the original post based on a slight misunderstanding lol so sorry about that!

[violin]

I think it depends on the contract you sign

If it's non-exclusive, I don't see why not? You get paid, if it turns out horrible people might still come check out the original since folks who have read the original (hopefully you have a following) might rage/complain about it, therefore drawing readership, and you are not barred from signing another non-exclusive contract for someone to adapt it really well

Personally I think allowing folks the freedom to adapt your work is a mark of some of the great classics

Look at all the bad fanfiction the most popular fandoms have generated

Look at how many movie/show/comic/whatever spin-off adaptations the most popular classics of history have generated (Shakespeare, fairytales like Cinderella, asian classics like The Monkey King, the original Wuxia novels by Jinyong etc)... some adaptations are horrible, some are really good

Now if this is an EXCLUSIVE contract, and this is the ONLY adaptation of this medium that can be made of it, I would 100% think twice (and the answer is probably no)

[AVXP]

Here's a question for you and it's the opposite....hmmm should I start a new thread?
No, same outcome, different circ...

What if they become more exposed to the adaption than your/original story?
What if THAT becomes the main media/franchise and it actually stops people from reading your story....
(not totally stop, but people turn to the movie/novel/Tv show as the BETTER version of your story)

In this case, they made a version and it blew up, now they are back and negotiating for the next spin-off project.

How do you feel, what do you do?

And I have a pretty good answer too. lol

[Zaboem]

I can think of a few franchises in which the movie greatly improved upon the original story. The classic example is Jaws. A more recent example would be How to Train Your Dragon.

[demthorshie]

Short answer is no. Actually, that would be a hard hell to the no. This comic is my life's passion, it's beyond any mount of money. For someone to come in and destroy years of labor for some paper dollars just isn't worth it in my eyes. I don't care if it's millions of dollars, I'd still say no.

[MochoStudios]

How to train your dragon is good stuff

[sushy00]

If they pay enough everything is possible.
like who wouldn't refuse 2 million or something

[Boyle]

Really depends. If they pay me millions of dollars, I'd use that money to develop my own, better, projects in the future. I'm still passionate about my comic, but I have many ideas I'd love to see realized in the future, and that money would help greatly.

[azzy-m]

war flashbacks to the PJO movies

No. Absolutely not. I'm not going to/ I didn't spend several years making my comic for someone else to completely shit on it for a quick buck.

[Insanebaker92]

If they don't respect my desire / wish and made my story into a crap, then no. Because this will put my effort, dreams and story to shame. Imagine I have so many fans who loves my story and when they see my adapted , crappy story, I'll be embarrassed for life.