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Is this a benchmark moment in the history of bad ideas? Alan Moore doesn't want it. Dave Gibbons doesn't want it. But apparently - after seeing the original vault to their number one spot in all-time sales on the back of Zak Snyder's film version - DC Comics has opened the door to the possibility of Watchmen 2 hitting the printed page. The talk is apparently not so much a direct sequel but an expansion of the Watchmen world, which I suppose could mean prequels or stories running in parallel or perhaps other stories involving the main Watchmen crew. Yeah, it's a big world and there's room in there to do something like this but - beyond the fact that they should just respect the creators' wishes - is Watchmen not a very specific response to a very specific era? An era long gone and next to impossible to capture in this day and age? Good idea? Bad idea? Somewhere in between?
first one sucked. can;t imagine a second one doing it any help.
Well, this'll teach everybody to skip the movie version next time. Consider yourselves meta-punished. Crap, I thought this was a bad idea when I misunderstood the headline above as referring to a sequel for the film. I was rolling my eyes at that: didn't A.O. Scott pan the movie for being drearily dated? Who'd touch that script with a ten foot pole, anyway? Sam Hamm again? What would that even look like....
But there's nothing to say to this. This is just a bad idea waiting to not happen. DC should amass some talent and make a Watchmen-like thing about the nineties instead. Then maybe they can cobble together a movie version the creators are content to put their names on.
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I'm of two minds on this. I love Watchmen and thought it was a great story. I would really like to see other stories that are prequel, happening off screen, etc. The fact that Moore and Gibbons don't want it to happen should be taken into consideration.
I think the success or failure of this would all hinge on the creators that are brought in to work on the stories and the respect they'd bring to the material.
We should also all bear in mind that the Watchmen story uses analogues for Charlton characters are are ultimately owned by DC.
maybe something along the lines of the cartoon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w
Every time Hollywood tried to make a sequel out of a stand alone film, they invariably fail miserably.
How about these ivy league graduates invest in some fresh new talent, instead of going back to dry wells or tapping in house writing hacks to dish out yet another steaming pile that the audience won't see.
Then they can blame P2P networks for their loss of profits, yet again!
I am not against sequels per se (Aliens anyone?), but some film lore are not meant to be added to. If Watchmen were planed as a series or franchise, then that would be different, However, it wasn't and now it's done.
Time to move on WB and Paramount....