Is Cinema the Best Medium for Superhero Stories?

Watchmen would arguably make a better TV show than movie.

Does a movie, then, constrain superhero stories?

I keep thinking it would be better as a miniseries; a five-hour miniseries is what I thinkWatchmenshould be.

Nobodys ever suggested it as a five-hour miniseries except me.

Nobodys come forward and said, what a great idea!'

Zack Snyder met with HBO in 2015 to discuss the possibility of aWatchmenTV series.

That it simply wont translate into moving pictures.

Also, putting those concerns to one side, itsreallylong.

As that films been a colossal success there is no reason for Marvel to reinvent the wheel.

Theres a very simple reason for this.

Geeky culture does delight in referencing or revisiting old ideas.

All of which makes cinema a strange medium for this kind of storytelling.

This in turn has a bigger knock-on effect on merchandising and licensing.

Well take what were given.

This article originally appeared onDen of Geek UK.