Every Good Story Deserves a Franchise

When I was younger, nothing was more offensive to me than the idea of a movie deriving from a video game, or a book deriving from a movie. Adaptations were to flow in only one direction: first the book, then the movie, then the Sunday morning cartoons, then the video game, and then the action figures. From the purity of the written word to the soullessness of fake plastic consumer goods. Any deviation from this seemed…