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It would be easier to count what hasn't been adapted rather than what was. There are many adaptations of Shakespeare and Moby Dick. When someone put out an edited version to Huckleberry Finn, I was upset too. But I came to realize that was irrational. It didn't harm the original one iota, it was nothing more than a pebble in the ocean. Such concerns are based on thinking that the adaptation could supplant the original, but that doesn't happen. The original is free, and free competes quite well with the adaptation that you have to pay for.
I don't think I will be reading this adaptation, it doesn't interest me. But whether or not I want it is irrelevant. There are many books that I don't want, it doesn't concern me that they exist. What I want is that the original is available, and no adaptation is going to replace it. Thus I am unharmed by an adaptation, and I would only harm myself by allowing it to upset me.
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