@GailCBull Lastly, there are Japanese and Korean written works (novels, manga, webtoon) which had great live-action (or anime) adaptations.
They're too many, I can't think of one. LOL.
But, yeah, the Japanese, and Koreans do it right most of the time. Pick the right parts of the original work, the message, the essence. The entertainment value is not central to the production. The result, many of their adaptations are successes; and at the same time, they helped the original authors, the original works, gain even more attention and readers.