Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
As I pointed out several times before, updating a work through adaptation to be more relevant to a modern audience is not a foreign concept. And doing it to make the work more relevant to the world of its viewers is inherently valuable, provided it's done right.
Though I feel it raises the question if such a work should be adapted at all? If you consider a work objectionable because of one of its underlying concepts, is it a story you really want to tell? If you have to do major contortions to make a story acceptable, is there a point to adapting it in the first place?
I think the answer should be no. But of course the real answer is money.