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Dave Gibbons On the Forthcoming Watchmen Movie

Posted by timothy on from the alternate-title-the-winders dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Den Of Geek has been talking to comics legend Dave Gibbons about the upcoming transition of the Watchmen from the comic book to the silver screen. 'There are hardcore fans out there who'll be satisfied with nothing less than a word-for-word, line-for-line, scene-for-scene recreation of the comic book. I didn't believe that was ever going to happen.'" It's a rather short interview, but Gibbons addresses some interesting elements of both the movie and comic-book worlds.

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  1. Re:Alan Moore doesn't do well on screen by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A dark story with a non-happy ending doesn't sit very well with focus groups. No kidding. Just look at what happened with I Am Legend. In the book, the hero dies at the end knowing that, to the vampires, he was the monster. And then there's V for Vendetta. How the hell did the Wachowskis take a character that was a bomb-making anarchist and make a liberal out of him?
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  2. Know what's funny? by liquiddark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every normal person I know seems to believe V for Vendetta was a great movie. Maybe adapting a good book into a good movie, even at the expense of diverging from the original work, isn't all bad.