Adapted
Adapted adjective - Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose.
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Rewritten and adapted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rewritten" instead an adjective "Adapted".
Rewritten
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- By 1937, when the movie was adapted for radio, The Hays Code was firmly in place, so the plot was completely rewritten.
Source: Bowdlerise / Radio -
Adaptational Villainy: In a way, in the adapted (in fact, rewritten from scratch) episode "T*R*A*S*H", instead of Gena, Tolik and Danila being pitted against people on strike, this episode features prominently Lena and Tolik, and places the Bukins themselves as the antagonists.
Source: Series / Happy Together -
While Silence and Dragon were faithfully adapted by Ted Tally (the script for ''Silence'' is more or less the novel with the non-essential chapters removed), Hannibal was more thoroughly rewritten.
Source: Literature / Hannibal
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