✔️ 2022-10-19 18:30:18 – Paris/France.
At this point in life, it's not at all surprising that good old Alan Moore unleash your fury every time a studio or creative team dares to adapt one of your works. It happened with 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen', with 'V for Vendetta', with Zack Snyder's underrated 'Watchmen' and, of course, it happened with Damon Lindelof's fantasy miniseries for HBO based on the universe of the same comic.
"Don't bother me anymore"
Although a long season has already passed since its premiere, Moore reopened the thunder box in an interview with GQ media in which, among other things, he explained that received a message from Lindelof himself asking for forgiveness and advice at the same time. As expected, things didn't go too well.
"[Recibí] an honest letter from the showrunner of the TV adaptation of 'Watchmen,' which I hadn't even heard of at the time. But the letter, I think it started, 'Dear Mr. Moore, I'm one of the bastards tearing up Watchmen.' It wasn't the best start. He went through what seemed like a lot of neurotic ramblings. “Can you at least tell us how to pronounce “Ozymandias”? I responded with a very abrupt and probably hostile response, telling him that I thought Warner Bros. knew that neither they nor any of their employees should contact me again under any circumstances.
I explained that I had disowned the work in question, in part because the film and comic book industries seemed to have created things that had nothing to do with my work, but would be associated with it. I said, 'Look, this embarrasses me. I don't want anything to do with you or your show. Please don't bother me anymore. »
Moore, who believes that “he would be the last person I wanted to sit down with to adapt my work” and that, after accepting, “It would have been torture for no very good reason” for Lindelof and his team, it was a reaction to the resounding victory of 'Watchmen' at the Emmys - where it scratched 11 awards, including the award for best limited series - question the understanding of the source material.
"When I saw the TV industry awards and 'Watchmen' had won, I was like, 'Oh my God, can a good chunk of the audience think that's what it was? Watchmen? Do you think it was a dark, gritty, dystopian superhero franchise that had anything to do with white supremacy? Didn't you understand "Watchmen?" “Watchmen” is almost 40 years old and relatively straightforward compared to much of my later work. How likely were they to have figured out anything since then? It makes me feel less attached to these works. That they mean a little less in my heart.
Fully understanding Moore's position—it can't be easy to see how others manipulate his own creation—it's undeniable that, in the case of HBO's "Watchmen," we're faced with a brilliant expansion of your universe. But good old Alan seems will never changeAnd I couldn't be happier about it.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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