“For a superhero junkie, I’ve never done a superhero movie or a superhero TV show,” he said. Whether Moore approves or not, Lindelof clearly feels an urgency to tell this particular story at this particular time. It’s easy to see why Moore can’t stand what Hollywood does to his work and why he demands to be removed from just about everything the industry does with his stories. “ we’re trying to find a way to do it that honors him.” Alan Moore took several old school literary heroes, teamed them up to face Moriarty in the Steampunk era League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. “He most certainly doesn’t want us to be doing this,” he said of the author, who famously stated his intention never to see Snyder’s film and generally refuses to be involved with filmed adaptations of his work. It was too mature for me, but not, I think, completely and totally inappropriate.”Īs for making his HBO take something that Moore would be proud of, Lindelof understands the essential futility of trying to satisfy the notoriously prickly writer. “It dealt with a psychological realism in the superhero genre that I have kind of fallen in love with. Adaptation of the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons at the hands of director Zack Snyder (Man of Steel). “It just crackled with electricity,” he said. En enero de 2008, Alan Moore hizo conocer que había negociado para que quitasen su nombre de la película de Zack Snyder y para que todas las regalías fueran a manos de Dave Gibbons. Lindelof first read Watchmen when he was 12 - an age he concedes was perhaps too young - and yet he reflected on the experience as an important part of his artistic development.

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