Alan Moore Doesn't Care About Watchmen Movie

I know I'm only repeating what some others here have said...but have some basic decency for god's sakes. The man is the one who created some of the best story universes. All you fanboys who would fight to the death with each other about who is a bigger fan than the other, get a life.

A true creator seeks to inspire his readers with the universe that he creates. And Alan Moore was one such creator. So if you really love the Watchmen universe, understand what the creator wanted to share with you...his opinions and view points on what truth is. Look at it and appreciate in seeing this unique view point revealed in the multi layered, complex, artistry that is the watchmen. Be inspired by it so that you may become creators yourselves in the real world. That's what a true creator wants from his audience and the world....not money and fame.

Dont, for godsakes, disrespect the artist, the art and yourselves by behaving like little children. Look at what entertainment for what it really is...it's not entertainment if you dont learn anything valuable from it. So the next time you're at home working on your next costume to wear to your next comic-con, think about better ways to show how much you love the book.

Alan Moore rocks. And, is a modern genius.

You Hollywood girlfriends have just one good brain cell left. Don't over work it trying to defenestrate someone way beyond your little world.

Cheers.

V for Vendetta was a pretty crummy adaptation although I have more respect for the Wachowski Brothers than I do Zack Snyder. 300 is a pretty good movie, but severely overrated, and not comparable to Watchmen as a graphic novel.

How would you feel about David Fincher directing a Watchmen adaptation?

@ akka383...

who is this "a. romero" you speak of? I remember a guy who make zombie movies, and his first name starts with a "G". Does the have a brother?

And anyway Alan Moore is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT in his attitude. His "problem" (as some of you see it, though I think it's a great strength) is that he has VERY HIGH STANDARDS. Not only that, but he can actually recognize when those standards can never possibly be met. And honestly the worst place in the world to place the trust that your high standards could ever be met is in anything even touched by a Hollywood studio. A Watchmen movie would never be able to be made without the financial backing of a big corporate studio, but sadly an honestly good adaptation of Watchmen could never be made within the corporate studio system. They want the flash we saw in the trailer, but the last thing they would ever want is the SUBSTANCE you see in the comic. Now I am curious as to what the film will be like, and I actually feel I have more reasons to hope it will be good than most movies give me, but I will never kid myself and even dream that it could ever be what the Watchmen would really be in a perfect world. I mean does anyone really think that the upcoming film is going to be at all what a really faithful adaptation should be? Yes it might look pretty, and seeing brief images from the comic brought to like on the screen was very exciting in the trailer, but unless the film is four or five hours long it can't possibly live up to the STORY of Watchmen. In fact I would go so far as to say that a twelve hour twelve part miniseries on a channel like HBO is the only possible way that they could do a live action Watchmen and have it be even close to faithful in story. That isn't to say it can't be a good film on it's own, but the obvious and undeniable limitations of the format it is being made in are what drives Alan Moore to NOT BE INTERESTED. It will never live up to his standards. It simply can never live up to his standards. So he doesn't see a point in even paying attention to it. Why pay attention to something you are 100% guaranteed to be disappointed in? There is nothing wrong with not wanting to have anything to do with that. And as has been mentioned before at least he isn't actively trying to stop it from being made. He just doesn't care about it, and doesn't want to talk about something he doesn't care about.

Yes I agree that Zach Snyder did wonders with 300, but The Watchmen is a whole other ballgame. I sat down and read all my 5 issues of 300 in about half an hour...the first six pages are "They march." They had to add stuff to make it a full length movie.

The Watchmen took a couple of days to read and is pretty ambitious. Which means that they'll have to take away from the original story. The only way to do the watchmen proper would be to have an HBO 10 part miniseries...which obviously isn't going to happen.

PLUS: the preview looks like glamourized super heroes, which having read the watchmen, they are anything but. It will probably be cool for people who havn't read it but for those of us who are familiar with it...it'll suck.

Zach Snyder is incapable of capturing the depth and splendid minutia that define Moore's "Watchmen." I applaud Alan's unwillingness to sell neither his art nor his name. I hope Zach Snyder steps in a heaping pile of dog excrement and gets a blindingly painful canker sore. He's a hack. A two-bit yellow belly.

Please read V For Vendetta, then see the movie again and tell me that was a "good adaptation". It was clearly simplified for the mainstream audience and I probably would've been pissed if I'd written the book as well.

Also, as excited as I am to see Watchmen made into a movie worthy of the book, I can't believe you'd hold it against Moore for his opinions on HIS creations being pushed aside. Would you hold it against Bill Waterson if they made a Calvin and Hobbes movie against his will, after a lifetime of refusing to turn them into a franchise?
I actually have a feeling you would. Never mind.

"While Alan Moore may not be watching, the rest of us will be, and, considering his base attitude on it, I’ll enjoy a little guilty pleasure knowing that part of my ticket cost isn’t lining the curmudgeon’s pocket in any way."

Talk about fanboy angst! As pointed out if he were really being "base" he would have blocked a movie period. However, he has allowed fans of his work to experience it in another venue. It is that utter disrespectful self-indulgent fanboy attitude that has robbed readers of the works of Alan Moore! Were fans more respectful of personal boundaries and adult courtesies, he wouldn't be stand offish from fandom. Rafe your immaturity and disrespect for another human being is showing -- how dare you assume that he must bow and caper to your fanboy whims. Do you go to the Doctor and ask that he come speak to you in the lobby between appointments? Come forth and sign a spleen every so often? Discuss his college days and working techniques with you? No. To be honest, I expect adults to behave with a measure of respect toward others, but instead people behave with paparazzi like courtesy towards anyone with an inkling of talent -- as if the talented ones owe their fans something for their talent. He has shown great respect for his fans and co-creators by allowing the movies to go forward -- donating all monies to said co creators and allowing the directors free rein. Will the movies ever match his personal vision -- no. So should he be embroiled in something that will ALWAYS be short of what he saw it to be -- no. Will the movie ever equal the comic book for some of the artistic explorations that were made -- not even close. Watchmen is not Batman, Superman or Spiderman -- factory created comics, this was his personal vision! So respect his decision to allow the creation to stand as what he made it to be in his mind and the right to ignore what someone else's vision of his comic should be as a movie.

"I’ll enjoy a little guilty pleasure knowing that part of my ticket cost isn’t lining the curmudgeon’s pocket in any way." - Waste of carbon.

You will receive pleasure from a brilliantly creative muse who maintained his dignity and did not bow to the kunt that is hollywood. The one you run to with credit card in hand.

Your pleasure comes from his brilliance. Mine comes from your lack there of.

akka383, I gather you've seen Watchmen. Tell me, what was the movie like? How did they include the secret group of artists and scientists? That IMO is the most tricky part of the film.

Couldnt agree more with moore. Sznyder should burn in hell for feeding off the work of OTHER GREAT people like a. romero, f. miller, and moore. Specially moore, since watchmen is, beyond a doubt, a masterpiece and a piece of true literature that doesnt deserve to be soiled with crappy movies.

I don't buy it... I think he's just trying to play hard to get... secretly he wanks off to Natalie Portman with a skinhead.

I don't blame him. He's written some fantastic comics, only to see them turned into Hollywood trash: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, obviously researched in excrutiating detail and a labor of love, transformed into a retarded Fantastic Four; V for Vendetta, which Moore worked on for years, turned into an cheesy action-fest; and John Constantine, an anti-hero Moore claims to have met (!), played by the wooden Keanu Reeves.

What reason does he have to give Snyder the benefit of the doubt? Because Snyder did a zombie movie and a faithful film version of a pretty average action comic?

Hi, long time podcast listener, first time commenter.

I actually think it´s grossly unfair to call Moore a curmudgeon just because he´s not interested in seeing his work being turned into movies. He made the damn things! If he was a "dick" he would try to stop the movies from being made. He doesn´t, since he wants his artists to get some extra pay.

And although V was an OK movie it really dumbed down its source material. It will be visually brilliant, but I can´t see them fitting Watchmen into one movie. I´ll be there opening night to find out, though.

Alan Moore was actually on The Simpsons the other night. I was shocked!

Alan Moore is such a dick. ugh

this might sound crazy, but the dude just seems like he's got other things on his mind and better things to do than watch movies. he's just moved on from all that ...