Watchmen 2 Could Be in the Cards

[Therumancer]

The world has changed too much to do it right anyway. When Watchmen was written it was dealing with fairly "current" issues. To go back and play with it now, would basically involve writing alternative history which would lose a lot of "oomph" and there is no way a lot of issues parallel to the ones we're dealing with now could have developed from that work.

I see the potential for someone to do something similar to Watchmen, but as far as far as using that name and liscencing... no, just no.

Personally I think if someone wants to go for a similar vibe they might want to look at Warren Ellis' "Transmetropolitan" series. It's not a super hero tale in the same way, but makes societal criticism in a vaguely more relevent way.

 

[That's Funny]

NO, Moore is king of writing in my eyes (Watchmen and the Killing joke being my favourites from him) but Watchmen without Moore, meh I'm gonna have to pass on that one.

 

[MrRags]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000OOOOOO
I would NEVER buy an atrocity like this
you are a sick person for wanting to watch
such a great story be RUINED just for some
DC fat cat's extra limo.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

NO.

Hasn't Watchmen been treated badly enough already? They will NEVER be able to make a film that even approaches the complexity and scope of the graphic novel. This sequel should not be made.

You are the definition of fanboy. It makes me sad

Really though, Watchman wasn't as great as it could be, i don't give a flying merde-covered banana hamock if the concept behind Dr manhattan(or w.e his name is) being naked all movie long is that he is blah blah blah. I don't care i went to see a better superhero movie with my parents and we get flashed for 2 hours. Thats really my only complaint though. And besides where the hell would you fit a sequel after the ending to the first one?

 

[Dorian6]

no....no...NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!!

There is absolutely no way that it could possibly be good. This is nothing more than shameless capitalization on the success of someone else's work.

I pity the actors from the original, who would then be legally obligated to be any piece of shit sequel

Thankfully, Alan Moore will never allow it. He'll kill this shameful abomination straightaway

 

[Warmoon]

no I wouldnt buy it, but I would rent it, yes just to see also how they have ruined my beloved watchmen memorys, (and by memorys, i mean all of 8th grade)

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Alan Moore will probably respond as if someone pulled out Watchmen Babies or something.

 

[theunreliablecritic]

as much as I hate sequels (and believe me when I say this) to good movies, I do hate the fact that Rorschach died in the first one and I would watch it only to see if (and only if) there`s any Rorschach flashbacks or some other sort of Rorschach-related topic but other than that all I have to say is: no, never, not in a million years would they ever, EVER!, have the audacity to even think of having a sequel to watchmen, because A: the movie will obviously be terrible due to the lack of knowledge they have about the watchmen characters and storyline, (and they obviously won`t have any help from the original creators) and B: sequels are terrible.

 

[theunreliablecritic]

This is where I draw a major line.

I love "The Watchmen", both the graphic novel (though I have a major problem with the ending, so sue me) and the Zack Snyder adaptation is probably one of the few movies in the world of Superhero movies that I would put on my favorite movies list (Dark Knight isn't bad, but upon repeat viewings, it almost becomes laborious to finish).

However, A Sequel is a bad idea. What made the Watchmen so good was that it fleshed out the characters enough (the important ones) to make me get involved. A sequel would downgrade the original, and let's face it, does the thought of David Goyer getting his hands on a typewriter to make a Watchmen Sequel seem like a good idea to anybody (Lord knows he'd do it just because he was "That Guy who co-wrote The Dark Knight")?

Onto the series being destroyed and seeing it... it is probably the one of the few times I would say "No." I have a major problem advancing a story that needs not to be advanced. Personally, I liked the First "Saw" that I never needed to see the sequels (and I haven't seen them, I don't feel like anymore of a tortured soul by not seeing it).

Even if Alan Moore put his amazing name on it, I still wouldn't read it, watch it, ETC. Seriously, if this is all we can come up with in Hollywood is destroying an original idea by going further with it (See the first 2 Terminator Movies, The Early Star Wars Movies), why not do it to everything? Let's Screw up "Catcher in the Rye", or "Moby Dick" while we have "creative ability".

yeah i always thought that anakin was a whiney *****...

 

[Rooster893]

I hated the movie, hopefully the sequel will be better.

 

[theunreliablecritic]

Oh great, another full 3 hours of Dr Manhattans cock

I'm thoroughly against Watchmen 2. Posts like yours are going to make me all for it. What do you really want?

What do you mean by " Posts like yours are going to make me all for it. What do you really want?"

hahahahaha Dr. Manhattan`s cock.....

 

[FaceFaceFace]

I died a little inside just by seeing the headline. I am reading it correctly that Alan Moore can refuse? Cause if so, this headline might as well be "Watchmen Sequel Idea Killed Instantly"

 

[ShinningDesertEagle]

This could potentially be a good idea considering the original Watchmen graphic novel is incomplete. That is one of the reasons I did not like it. In my opinion, that was not an ambiguous ending but a 'I have written to the point where my arm hurts' ending. Also the book carried too many nihilistic themes, none of the characters' actions (except for Ozymandias's) mattered, and all of them were completely unlikeable in that they were assholes or sickeningly pathetic.

For the record, I have read the book. I did not see the movie.

 

[Simriel]

I hate Didio so much. The guy just seems to hate Comic Books doesn't he? He seems to have a total loathing of the people who read them and their wishes as well.

 

[LewsTherin]

I smell HERESY

 

[The Austin]

......I don't see the big deal, Watchmen wasn't a good movie anyway.

 

[13lackfriday]

Never read the original comic graphic novel even after it started flooding Borders, so anything approaching the greatness and "diluted" complexity of the movie is totally sold for me.

 

[matrix3509]

If Alan Moore was already dead, he would be turning in his grave, he would then turn into a zombie and gnaw the head off of every one of those damn greedy suits.

(This assumes that he wasn't already rolling in his grave from the rape/pillage of his other stories *cough*V for Vendetta*cough*.)