25 Movies That Would Have Been BETTER As TV Shows
When the small screen beats the big.
Wouldn't it be great if you could walk out of every single movie you ever watched with no notes? Of course it would, and of course it's not ever going to happen. They always come with their own issues and flaws, while some of them shouldn't have been movies at all.
The allure of the big screen is undeniable, but sometimes it is the small screen that would have made a better home for certain projects. Away from the bright lights and potentially lucrative box office numbers for sure, but had certain movies instead been produced as TV shows, they may well have been better for it.
"Better" on this list could mean a variety of things. It could mean making a stronger end product on a different platform, it could be a change that may have resulted in more people seeing the project, or it could have allowed a full story/adaptation to be told, and more.
Imagine if something like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad had been a film series instead of on TV. Here, the right decision was made, but unfortunately that can't be said for the films on this list. There's no way of knowing exactly how well they would have done, but they would have been an improvement to say the least.
25. I Am Legend
There will always be creative changes made to any story when it is adapted to film, whether it is coming from a novel, a comic book, or a video game. Some of these changes are easy to justify, and they make a lot of sense, while the reason behind others isn't always so clear.
Take I am Legend. Richard Matheson's novel was adapted in 2007, with Will Smith in the lead role as Robert Neville, and it's no exaggeration to say that it completely missed the point of the source material, instead favouring a big CGI finish.
In the novel, as the title alludes to, Neville ends up killing so many vampires that he becomes the legend to be feared among them. It is a thought-provoking piece that raises certain questions about humanity and morality, and absolutely none of that was translated onto the big screen.
Put this story on the small screen however, with more time to develop and no need to rush towards a typical and almost cliché finish, and this could have been a lot better. Hell, the sequel that is currently in development, and working from an alternate ending that never made it into cinemas, would have, and could have, just been a normal second season, without the confusion of picking up from an ending nobody saw.