I should have been clearer. Frank Miller obviously didn't write The Watchmen -- but he's the best example of a reasonably good comic writer whose work becomes shiny crap on screen. Alan Moore doesn't have a great track record here, either -- From Hell and TLoEG don't really inspire confidence.
Good Christ, are you kidding me? The best thing that could happen to any comic, ever, is to keep it as far away from the screen as possible. Frank Miller's writing isn't the half of it -- a crappy producer, a crappy director, and the most carefully conceived plot is going to look like warmed-over shit.
Granted, there have been a few wins of late. But I'm not holding my breath on this one. Watchmen is cerebral, with a massive amount of backstory and filler in Rorschach's notebooks. I'm predicting a highly publicized, big-money tragedy... but I'd love to be wrong.
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Collaboration page (here: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk:Wikileaks_obtains_10_years_of_messages,_interviews_from_Osama_bin_Laden_translated_by_CIA) has a nice little note saying that "authenticated by the US CIA" is essentially.. what's the word? oh yeah, "wrong".
I should have been clearer. Frank Miller obviously didn't write The Watchmen -- but he's the best example of a reasonably good comic writer whose work becomes shiny crap on screen. Alan Moore doesn't have a great track record here, either -- From Hell and TLoEG don't really inspire confidence.
Good Christ, are you kidding me? The best thing that could happen to any comic, ever, is to keep it as far away from the screen as possible. Frank Miller's writing isn't the half of it -- a crappy producer, a crappy director, and the most carefully conceived plot is going to look like warmed-over shit.
Granted, there have been a few wins of late. But I'm not holding my breath on this one. Watchmen is cerebral, with a massive amount of backstory and filler in Rorschach's notebooks. I'm predicting a highly publicized, big-money tragedy ... but I'd love to be wrong.