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Watchmen
Ozymandias:
No, he didn't disown From Hell or LXG.
He started after that, when he realized that Hollywood just wants the ideas from his comic books so they can rape the fuck out of them, toss them in a ditch, pee on them, and let them suffer and die.
Alchemist:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias ---No, he didn't disown From Hell or LXG.
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He VERY MUCH SHOULD HAVE disowned LXG. From Hell was pretty good, though.
Jedit:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 26 Jul 2006, 06:07 ---No, he didn't disown From Hell or LXG
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He did after the fact. It was LXG that caused him to demand that his name be left off all future adaptations of his work and the monies given to the artist.
rynne:
--- Quote from: Axolotyl on 17 Jul 2006, 07:44 ---If Watchmen ever gets out of development hell, it's going to suck. … They are going to bowdlerdize the fuck out of it.
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Bingo. No studio with the budget to make it work would release it with the intended, morally-ambiguous ending. Without that ending, there’s no point.
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 24 Jul 2006, 15:42 ---V For Vendetta was bad enough.
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And that was the best of the adaptations. LoEG sucked ass (Mina’s not a vampire!) and while I enjoyed From Hell, it wasn’t anywhere near as interesting as the comic.
That being said, I think that Tom Strong could be made into a great movie if the right director got hold of it.
*waits patiently for a Lost Girls adaptation. Alice/Wendy/Dorothy threesome: mmm….*
Ragman:
I just can't see the richness of a twelve issue comic being condenced well into something that's only a few hours long. The Watchmen would make a better Televised mini-series, or a series in the vain of Lost. I wouldn't like having to wait a year or two to pick up the story, the Watchmen's great because you're able to read it through and digest it. I think the magic of the story would be lost on a movie.
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