Alan Moore’s Hugo Award winning graphic novel Watchmen has finally found a studio home. It has jumped from Paramount to NBC Universal and now has landed in the lap of Warner Bros. However, once Warner gets its writing and directing team ducks all in a row, Paramount does have the option of being involved in the financing of the feature.
Watchmen, a book-length graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is about a band of retired and out-of-work superheros who have all seen better days. In the original novel, when one of their own is killed, they band back together to bring the murderer to justice.
This graphic novel is not your typical read. Told in stark realism, beautiful panels and convoluting storylines, Watchmen was one of the first “comic books” to go above and beyond what we had come to know as comic book entertainment.
In 1986, Time Magazine called Watchmen “a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium.”
Source: Variety
So, is this going to be a TV series or movie?
Don’t know if any of you have heard Alan Moore’s opinions on the cinematic adaptation of his work. He’s not very fond of any of them (to say the least).
I think mr. Moore’s writing is in general extremely difficult to adapt (From Hell, V. for vendetta, specially Watchmen).
Comparatively, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was easy (quite linear, episodic story) and they screwed it up big time. I quite liked ‘From Hell’, but it didn’t had anything to do with the original.
I simply don’t want to see the kind of movie which could originate from Watchmen. I find kind of unfair the fact that a brilliant, relatively unknowm comic book can easily be transformed into a mediocre blockbuster movie.