Alan Moore Refuses Rights to Watchmen

[ark123]

I'm surprised he didn't shoot whoever took down these comments. He's crazier than a juggling chimpanzee.

 

[The Random One]

Watchmen was an earthquake to the idea of superhero comic books when it came out.

Now its concepts are so dilluted it's an exercise in pointlessness at best and a circle jerk at worst.

Moore knows what he's doing. Now let's all read Transmetropolitan and Sandman instead.

 

[Dorian6]

One of the most important things about a story is knowing when it needs to end. Would your enjoyment of the Watchmen really be increased by learning what made The Comedian so dark and cynical? Or how Silk Spectre was pushed into the world of masked adventuring by her mother?

If you said "yes" then please report to your nearest hospital for castration, so that your level of stupid cannot be passed onto the next generation.

 

[BlackWidower]

Oh, who cares? The Watchmen is grossly overrated anyways.

 

[BlackWidower]

One of the most important things about a story is knowing when it needs to end. Would your enjoyment of the Watchmen really be increased by learning what made The Comedian so dark and cynical? Or how Silk Spectre was pushed into the world of masked adventuring by her mother?

If you said "yes" then please report to your nearest hospital for castration, so that your level of stupid cannot be passed onto the next generation.

Wait...you're saying more information is a bad thing?

 

[BlackWidower]

also how is he going to make a sequel? every one comes back to life and gois to fight eveil robot dinosares and evil humans on the plaent zog?

Um...only two of the heroes died in Watchmen. There are still four left.

 

[Lono Shrugged]

I heard that way back when he planned on expanding the universe, and I imagine that if he was asked ten years ago he may have done it. But considering the amount of bad blood and the fact it's obviously just a cash in I'm happy he's sticking to his guns. And to clarify he would make a shit-ton of money out of this.

I really want to see Moore take on a new subject. Maybe Ennis will let him guest write The Boys

 

[Dorian6]

One of the most important things about a story is knowing when it needs to end. Would your enjoyment of the Watchmen really be increased by learning what made The Comedian so dark and cynical? Or how Silk Spectre was pushed into the world of masked adventuring by her mother?

If you said "yes" then please report to your nearest hospital for castration, so that your level of stupid cannot be passed onto the next generation.

Wait...you're saying more information is a bad thing?

Those things i mentioned are ultimately unimportant in the grand scheme of the story that Moore was telling and are better left to the reader's imagination.

 

[Clockwork Scarecrow.]

Well I'm sad that Alan doesn't want to work on it but if he's happy leaving it be then it should be left alone.

 

[The Last Nomad]

I didn't really like the Watchmen book but really liked the film, so in a way this is good news... No more of Moore's Watchmen. But on the other hand... Its just news that I really don't care about. If they make another watchmen film/comic, I'll probably give it a look if it gets as much hype as the original but I'm not awaiting anything new...

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

also how is he going to make a sequel? every one comes back to life and gois to fight eveil robot dinosares and evil humans on the plaent zog?

Um...only two of the heroes died in Watchmen. There are still four left.

oh that i know. i was trying to make a point, as the story ended, and a sequel would be retarded

 

[BlackWidower]

One of the most important things about a story is knowing when it needs to end. Would your enjoyment of the Watchmen really be increased by learning what made The Comedian so dark and cynical? Or how Silk Spectre was pushed into the world of masked adventuring by her mother?

If you said "yes" then please report to your nearest hospital for castration, so that your level of stupid cannot be passed onto the next generation.

Wait...you're saying more information is a bad thing?

Those things i mentioned are ultimately unimportant in the grand scheme of the story that Moore was telling and are better left to the reader's imagination.

Okay, fine, but overall, there are probably more stories to tell in the Watchmen universe. Such as: what happened to Rorshorshashor's journal? Did Dan and what's her face continue their crazy vigilantism? Both are sequels. A prequel probably wouldn't work, but if they do release one it's not necessarily a bad idea.

Now if you're saying we should make up our own ending, I'm sorry but that's a practice I reserve for when they already wrote an ending and completely fuck it up. See: the Matrix Revolutions the movie and FlashForward the book.

 

[BlackWidower]

also how is he going to make a sequel? every one comes back to life and gois to fight eveil robot dinosares and evil humans on the plaent zog?

Um...only two of the heroes died in Watchmen. There are still four left.

oh that i know. i was trying to make a point, as the story ended, and a sequel would be retarded

Yeah, it ended...on a cliffhanger. Doesn't count. We still don't know if Ozzy Egyptborne's plan worked in the long run, especially considering who has Rorshite's journal.

 

[BlackWidower]

I didn't really like the Watchmen book but really liked the film, so in a way this is good news... No more of Moore's Watchmen. But on the other hand... Its just news that I really don't care about. If they make another watchmen film/comic, I'll probably give it a look if it gets as much hype as the original but I'm not awaiting anything new...

Interesting...I've never seen anyone share my opinion on Watchmen before. Overrated book, movie was better.

 

[The Last Nomad]

I didn't really like the Watchmen book but really liked the film, so in a way this is good news... No more of Moore's Watchmen. But on the other hand... Its just news that I really don't care about. If they make another watchmen film/comic, I'll probably give it a look if it gets as much hype as the original but I'm not awaiting anything new...

Interesting...I've never seen anyone share my opinion on Watchmen before. Overrated book, movie was better.

I never had anyone agree with me on that matter either. I felt the book was too full of itself, as though the creators had it in their heads that it was the createst comic ever before they even started. To quote Peter Griffen "It insists upon itself". The movie didn't have that problem. It didn't take itself seriously. It left out all the bits that I felt were bad in the comic. I really need to watch it again though. I havn't seen it since it came out in the cinema.

 

[Cameron Baxter]

Is the plot in the film Watchmen the same as written by Alan Moore?

In that case, I am not surprised that he is not interested in monetary pursuit.

There is a fair bit of difference between his original novel and the film.

A lot of fan's hated the film because it changed the odd thing. Pretty much most of the film is true to the book with odd changes here and there so it fits on screen better. But the endings are completely different. Which is were I think most people drew the line.

Spoiler

In the book Vedit's engineers some giant creature, with tentacles and a giant eye that he unleashes on the world. People think it's some alien and all band together over it creating unified peace and what have you. I think the whole point of it was that the entire book had been so realistic as far as superhero comics go. So the end was meant to be ridiculous to make the impact of it more unbelievable.

Whilst in the film he engineers those quantum bomb things and destroys parts of the world making it look like Dr Manhattan killed everyone. Again creating unified peace under threat of destruction.

Only I like the films ending better. It's more believable and really makes more of an impact than some genetically modified alien squid rampaging. But most fans and I suspect Moore don't agree.

I haven't read the book in going on 10 years now so if I got some of it wrong people are more than welcome to correct me.

But that's the general gist of it.

gotta say i feel the complete opposite way abot the endings but it did take me a while too, dr manhattan could always explain he didnt do what he did in the film while the original ending is designed to be completely unbelievable and unchallengeable because people swallow lies providing they are big enough

also good on alan moore not selling himself out although i would like to see he write more graphic novels cos i have enjoyed all of them so far