[NYT] Alan Moore's comics are better

[Krug]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/movies/13WOLK.html

A point I've always agreed. Movies have always dumbed down the comics on which they're based.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

The link doesn't work for those of us not signed up with them...

 

[Olive]

Salon said the same thing. They HATED the LXG.

 

[nHammer]

The movie is a joke. I really hope it makes little to no money. The film makers should have their heads dunked in a toilet for the raping of a good comic that they did.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

The movie is a joke. I really hope it makes little to no money. The film makers should have their heads dunked in a toilet for the raping of a good comic that they did.

No one to blame but Alan Moore. He owns the creative rights to League, doesn't he? I'm sure it's an oversimplification, and there's lots of corporate guys making the big decisions, but I'm sure at some point Moore had to say "Yes" to get the movie made. It just goes to show that money generally beats artistic principles in the long run. But God bless him. I hope he gets a nice chunk of change out of this film so he can continue writing great comics, which he can then let Hollywood ruin again with crappy adaptations, ad nauseum. Maybe this is his little comment on the state of creativity in the 21st century. I wouldn't put it past the man.

But I am now officially dreading the Watchmen movie.

 

[Olive]

No one to blame but Alan Moore. He owns the creative rights to League, doesn't he?

I read somewhere that he doesn't, but I can't remember the reasoning...

But I am now officially dreading the Watchmen movie.

I'd be surprised if it ever got made, but I'm really dreading a V for Vendetta flick.

 

[Krug]

No one to blame but Alan Moore. He owns the creative rights to League, doesn't he? I'm sure it's an oversimplification, and there's lots of corporate guys making the big decisions, but I'm sure at some point Moore had to say "Yes" to get the movie made.

Doubt it. It's not how it works. That's like saying the people who write screenplays own the creative rights. Once you've signed it over, prepare to have it stomped and moulded to whatever Hollywood studios want it to be. Not the first time an Alan Moore comic has been reshaped; look at From Hell. But looks like with League, the establishment went even lower.

 

[Viking Bastard]

In his deal with Wildstorm, while he gets full creative control
and publishing rights over all his ABC comic creation (LoEG, Tom
Strong, Promothea etc.) he gives up all the Film/TV rights to
DC/Wildstorm. While he gets a bigger percentance of the total
income than say Bob Kane/Stan Lee do from Batman/Spider-Man
he has nothing to say about it.

It's the same deal JMS did with Tow Cow.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

In his deal with Wildstorm, while he gets full creative control
and publishing rights over all his ABC comic creation (LoEG, Tom
Strong, Promothea etc.) he gives up all the Film/TV rights to
DC/Wildstorm. While he gets a bigger percentance of the total
income than say Bob Kane/Stan Lee do from Batman/Spider-Man
he has nothing to say about it.

It's the same deal JMS did with Tow Cow.

Aha.

I knew he had a certain level of creative control, but I wasn't aware that he had no control over film/TV rights.

BTW, I wonder why 20th Century Fox is releasing a comic movie owned by Warner Bros.?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Well, while Wildstorm is owned by DC, it is an independant company
and in theory they are free from DC's direct rule (this is of course,
not true, as seen in DC's mucking with The Authority). So perhaps,
DC had no direct access to those rights and thereforth neither
does Warner Bros.

But, then again, maybe WB simply didn't have any interest in the
prospect of a League movie and sold the rights.

I don't know.