Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

The Rock was not a good movie. [/objective scientific view]

lol I actually saw some of this on TV the other day - was kinda worth it for my wife's lolzy reactions, but not really

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2012/01/WATCHMEN_2012_OZY_Cvr.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/books/dc-comics-plans-prequels-to-watchmen-series.html

Brian Azzarello, a comics author who is writing the mini-series for the Watchmen characters Rorschach and the Comedian, said he expected an initial wave of resistance because “a lot of comic readers don’t like new things.”

er...

“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”

I love how Alan Moore just gives the same response he always gives to everything.

“I think the gut reaction is going to be, ‘Why?’ ” Mr. Azzarello said in a telephone interview. “But then when the actual books come out, the answer will be, ‘Oh, that’s why.’

the accounting books

Azzarello's writing Wonder Woman for DC's New 52 and it's not bad, and his Joker graphic novel from 2010 was well receive if a little overrated, but this? Eh.

no, i LIKE azzarello but doing watchmen for a DC that could not proclaim its creative bankruptcy more clearly is the king of NAGL

They've really tried to buttress this terrible idea with talented writers.

I for one can't wait for the comic which finally reveals to us all those things Ozymandias already told us in rich detail about his life.

Brian Azzarello, a comics author who is writing the mini-series for the Watchmen characters Rorschach and the Comedian, said he expected an initial wave of resistance because “a lot of comic readers don’t like new things.”

I would say the lack of self-awareness is amazing here, but we are talking about an adult that creates super-hero comics and just signed up to write a watchmen prequel.

It's a living

Yeah but it's not like they hired in Stephen King and he's all "I have heard of these Watching Men and look forward to reading them" - Azzarello should know this is a pretty poisoned chalice.

I'm sad that Darwyn Cooke is doing this, most especially because it means yet another year in which Darwyn Cooke is not doing his own comic

actually also bcz it's going to make me less likely to want to read that if he ever does get around to it

Cooke does have another Parker book out soon.

I'll just stick w/Morning Glories and Locke & Key. They're the only things I've read in the last year that have really been any good.

the parodies of this are going to be much better than the comic, imo

http://livingincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/watchmen-babies.jpg

Len Wein?! ;askldfj;vauwnpoeiv .qajfasdjahfffffffffuuuuuuuuu

Not that I'm interested in these anyway, but Len fuckin' Wein?! He's terrible!

If you want a comic that reads like it could have come out in the 60s he'll be fine.

Parker is not Cooke's character fyi

I'll just stick w/Morning Glories and Locke & Key. They're the only things I've read in the last year that have really been any good.

man this is just insane an odd non-sequitur

Len Wein + John Higgins = look folks, we have half the original creative team from Watchmen in EVERY ISSUE!

I think both Darwyn Cooke and Len Wein have done some great comics, but I can't see how anyone thought either of them would be a good choice for a Watchmen comic, since they both predate the deconstruction era (Cooke in spirit, Wein in his actual career) that Watchmen kicked in.

Azzarello probably can do the grim & gritty deconstruction thing, but if his Joker mini (which was an awful attempt to take the Heath Ledger "edgy emo Joker" TO THE EXTREME) is anything to judge by, his Watchmen will have all of the grittiness and none of the humanism of Moore's original.

Just watched the Ultimate cut of Watchmen out of curiosity. The Black Frieghter stuff is jarring and not-that-well integrated, but the added other (live-action) material def helps flesh out the universe a bit, makes the whole thing into a more agreeable shape. Also, I'd forgotten just how perfect Patrick Wilson and especially Billy Crudup are in it.

The violence, unfortunate old-age discrepancies (JDM's supposed to be pushing 70?) and awkward dialogue lifting still the principal issues for me. Still a fair sight better (not to mention more fun) than, say, TDKR.

did these ever come out then? i was almost going to drag myself to the comics shop for a guilty flip-through but i was afraid my rubbernecking might be mistaken for actual interest.

Mr. Moore, who has disassociated himself from DC Comics and the industry at large, called the new venture “completely shameless.”

Speaking by telephone from his home in Northampton, England, Mr. Moore said, “I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.”

Love you, Alan.

you know something is heinous when you're worried about how flippng through it will make you look in the eyes of the denizens of a fuckin comic book store.

same reason i never picked up Lost Girls

^this

love to see how you'd "flip through" a box set of three slipcased hardcovers in the shop tbh

one displayed, unboxed

WHERE THE HECK ARE OUR WATCHMEN?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:27 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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WHERE THE HECK ARE OUR WATCHMEN?

same reason i never picked up Lost Girls

That book is why I can't get too worked up over anything DC does with Watchmen.

Good point, Lewis Carroll had spent 1971-1991 repeatedly fucking Moore and his close friends over before he took his revenge, gr8 analogy

This thread might be of help: those Before Watchmen comics

http://hilariousworld.webs.com/photos/Funny-Pictures/squirrel_on_motorcycle.jpg

WHERE THE HECK ARE OUR WATCHMEN?

...really?

http://collider.com/watchmen-tv-series-hbo-zack-snyder/

yuck

But with Game of Thrones‘ end looming in the next couple of years

really?

Jesus christ. This is just layer upon layer of unnecessary and stupid. I'd honestly rather watch a documentary series chronicling the myriad of creative methods employed in destroying all of the money would have otherwise been used to fund an inadvisable Watchmen television series.

If they want to adapt some Moore property, why not Top 10? Unlike Watchmen, the concept is tailor-made for a TV series. Though I guess the whole premise would be too expensive to produce for television?

If they did do Top 10 though, I'd love to see the flame wars that'd follow the transporter accident episode: "OMG, they stole that light vs. darkness monologue from True Detective!".

"Too expensive" isn't really an HBO problem. GoT ain't cheap and Westworld won't be either.

Halo Jones would be ideal for a TV series. So perfect that there's no way it would happen.

I'd prefer to see a tv show based on literally any comic that isn't a finite story which has already been adapted, in full, by the dude who's trying to adapt it a second time.

aren't the ABC things like top 10, promethea, tom strong more likely to be owner-controlled? wasn't that whole thing creators' rights based?

(would like to see them try to get promethea green-lighted...)