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philippos42

confession #1: my Watchmen movie idea

Oct 20, 2007 23:17

If I made a Watchmen movie, I would make it in as deliberately unfaithful a fashion as possible. My present idea is to take every theme & premise of the book & in some fashion "turn it upside down."

Not because I think Watchmen is some kind of masterpiece that should really be read in its original form rather than having spoiled it with a movie. ( ( Read more... )

confessions, alan (spit) moore, movie adaptations, watchmen

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twigcollins October 21 2007, 05:08:57 UTC

I was very amused by all the whinging about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie "getting the characters wrong," since they weren't Moore's characters to begin with, & he reinvented them himself (like turning Mr Hyde into the Hulk).I think most problems with LXG were not so much that it was an unfaithful movie as that it was a REALLY INDESCRIBABLY AWFUL MOVIE ( ... )