We’re back with another BIONICLE book vs movie comparison….

Remember the Mask of Light Book vs Movie comparison we did to launch the twentieth anniversary of 2003? We’re back again with another one, this time focused on The Legend Reborn! Yes, we’re temporarily skipping the other two movies in the original BIONICLE trilogy, but we’ll be back for those later. In the meantime…

Over the past few weeks we’ve debuted a series of Glatorian comic adaptations, and since the comics lead us up to (and slightly past) the events of The Legend Reborn, we figured we’d round out our time in 2009 with a study on the differences between the movie and book versions of things.

As can be expected, Greg adds a number of scenes into the books that magnify the worldbuilding and characterization of an otherwise mediocre story, elevating it to be closer in line with that in the rest of the 2009 story. Other differences can be traced back to the production process, where revisions in dialogue and sequencing were made to the early script which Greg had been working off of. These latter differences aren’t nearly as pronounced as those in the Mask of Light story, however, and often come down to rearranged dialogue or shortcuts to spare additional animation.

Like before, the fruits of our labors can be found in the pdf below, based on the digital edition of The Legend Reborn found on our sister site, Wall of History. We hope you enjoy the breakdown!

Font colors are to be understood as follows:

• Red = Line from the book, perhaps representing a sequence in the original script
• Green = Addition made for the movie
• Orange = A scene or line that was moved to a new spot
• Purple = The new spot for a scene or line that was moved