# Great Movies that Betrayed Their Source Material

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 18, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-that-betrayed-their-source-material/819821 "2018-08-18T05:08:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-that-betrayed-their-source-material/819821/101 "2018-08-24T21:54:31Z")

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It wasn’t made into a movie, but I was disappointed with the SyFy version of _The Magicians._ I actually liked the TV series, but I was so looking forward to seeing a version of the books, that at the same time I was kind of hating on it.

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**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-that-betrayed-their-source-material/819821/102 "2018-08-25T17:44:54Z")

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The 1940 version of “The Sea Hawk” used Rafael Sabatani’s name for commercial value but is a whole lot different than his original (the 1924 silent film version was fairly faithful to it). But with World War II occurring, it was changed to a Francis Drake-type privateer warning Queen Elizabeth that her brother-in-law Phillip II of Spain was sending an Armada against England, giving Bess a chance to declare that no one man rules the world. This appealed greatly to British audiences of the time, who after World War I ruled about one-quarter of the world

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