Alan Moore always said his graphic novel was unfilmable, and for a while, that almost looked true.
Silver said: It was a much, much better movie…
I was trying to get it back from the studio at that point.
Christ almighty, its the goddamn Watchmen!
It all started when Silver and 20th Century Fox president Lawrence Gordon optioned the comic back in 1986.
More infamously, he changed the ending.
Meanwhile, Silver reportedly had some ideas about his dream cast for the film.
Moore told him that he felt it was neither cinematic, nor filmable.
A clock without a craftsman.
When Hugh Jackman climbed aboard that film, Aronofsky jumped back onto his passion project.
Five minutes to midnight…
I think theres a benefit, ultimately, to it being at Warner Bros, Levin said, optimistically.
Studios in the past wanted to turnWatchmeninto something its not.
Theyre embracing it for what it is.
AMC is making in-roads to comic book shows, with their hugely successful adaptation ofThe Walking Deadand the upcomingPreacherseries.
By the same token, DC is increasingly interested in spinning off their comics for TV, inArrowandThe Flash.
If those two movements intercede, after enough time has passed, maybe a Watchmen series could still happen.
We might seeWatchmenon-screen again, in a different form, in the next ten or twenty years.
On the other hand, Alan Moore definitely wont.
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