The ratio of medicore/terrible adaptions of IPs to decent/good adaptions is too far slanted towards the "terrible" side for me to be remotely excited for this.
There's a reason for that. The IPs people want to adapt/reboot/leech upon (delete as appropriate) are the exception, not the rule.
The vast majority of books, films, TV series, music &c fail and fail hard becoming forgotten and irrelevant either immediately or very soon thereafter. The very small proportion that generate fanbases that remember the IP fondly, are prepared to spend money on it, and are therefore candidates for exploitation, achieve that as a result of some combination of unusually talented creator and/or the luck of delivering just what it transpired (with 20/20 hindsight) that people wanted at that particular time.
Often the original creator can't "recapture the magic". There are no shortage of authors/film makers who achieve success but are never able to repeat that success.
So, for someone else to come in years or decades later to try to "recapture the magic", the chances of matching or bettering the original are marginal at best. Quite apart from the luck factor of hitting the market with just what it wanted at just the right time, that this someone else believes they can replicate or surpass whatever rare talent the original creator delivered is, to use an expression from another tragic IP strip mining, sheer fucking hubris.
As if the odds weren't stacked against success enough these clowns turn the hubris up to 11 by convincing themselves that they can reimagine, reboot, update, modernise or, god forbid, subvert, the original work; i.e. they can do better than the original that itself succeeded against the odds. Writers and cast are told and are proud to not watch/read the original. Leaving aside that the more you depart from the original the less likely you are to replicate whatever made the original successful; this is a recipe to alienate the actual fanbase - that group of people prepared to spend money who made the original the success that "justified" the remake in the first place. Instead there is this belief that they can attract a new wider audience; those people who have never shown any interest in the IP. It's cretinous.
These are skin suits. They wear and exploit a popular IP to get publicity for a product whose connections to the original, and what made the original succeed, are superficial at best.
I'd be delighted if this is good but am expecting a trashfire. At best I expect something that offers surface promise but fails to deliver before embracing full retardation (see Westworld). The warning signs are there, all the shiny memberberries, all of it being dumped online at the same time, showrunners with form (Westworld again) and statements like the below from a Collider interview less than a week ago.
"Jonah, video game adaptations are not new. How do you please the fans of the game while also bringing in new audiences?
NOLAN: I don’t think you really can set out to please the fans of anything, or please anyone other than yourself. I think you have to come into this trying to make the show that you wanna make and trusting that, as fans of the game, we would find the pieces that were essential to us with the games and try to do the best version of those that we can. It’s a fool’s errand to try to figure out how to make people happy in that way. You’ve gotta make yourself happy, and I’ve made myself very happy with the show."