Ready For Watchmen 2? DC Comics prepares the ground Source: Bleeding Cool
That crackling sound you can hear is Alan Moore setting fire to his beard. Comics news site Bleeding Cool is reporting that, in the wake of Zack Snyder's block-rocking Watchmen movie, DC is thinking the unthinkable. Alan Moore's graphic novel, untouched for twenty years, may finally get the franchise treatment.
The word is that, despite DC's very public falling out with the irascible Moore, head honcho Paul Levitz was always adamant that Watchmen, at least in print form, was not to be messed with. But with Levitz stepping down, Watchmen is now without in-house defenders. And with the movie propelling the book to the status of DC's all-time bestseller, the barbarians are howling at the gates.
Apparently an expanded Watchmen universe is now the pet project of DC's senior vice president Dan Didio, who has visions of a series of comics prequels, sequels and spin-offs, and, of course, further movies.
It'd be something of a poisoned chalice for any writer or artist that took it on: the only person that could feasibly attempt it without getting the full force of fanboy vilification would be original Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons, who was more amenable to the movie than his writing cohort. But even Gibbons would be on very thin ice.
Maybe you think all this roping off of Watchmen is being a bit precious. Maybe (whisper it) you thought the ending of the movie worked rather better than the ending of the book. Maybe you'd like to see more. Or maybe you'd just like to see Rorschach let loose in the DC offices. Is there anywhere for the story to logically go next? Your thoughts, as always, below...
THIS WAS THE MOST BEST MOVIE OF 2009 I WAS VERY OUTRAGED WHEN IT WASN"T NOMINTAED 4 ANY OSCARS!!!!!! but y a sequel, a prequel would make way more sense, eg the minutemen, but the sequel would just be niteowl, silk spectre ozymandias and dr manhatten with NO ROSCHACH!!! I DEMAND A PREQUEL INSTEAD OF A SEQUEL!!!!!! PREQUEL!!!! PREQUEL!!!! PREQUEL!!!! PREQUEL!!!! ... Read More
Why would anyone prefer the ending of the film to the ending of the book? It is completely at odds with the points that the story is making. Ozymandius forces the world powers to co-operate and become a team by bringing them a new threat which they cannot possibly understand and must unite against. He unleashes something completely nonsensical on the world, something we have no way of comprehending. That forces the world powers to realise how destructive and pointless all their previous conflic... Read More
The themes can be updated, but taking the story forward chronologically seems a no-no (too many watchmen dead or departed).
The original expressed contemporary fears/politics through a backdrop of alternative history. I believe (just from a spitballing ideas point of view) that taking the story chronologically backwards would be the way to go. And just as leaders espouse the ideas of fighting terror, they once created fear of society being destroyed by 'commies' and went to war against ide... Read More
People are saying there's no way to move the story forward, but it seems obvious to me- post 9/11 world, Afghanistan, Iraq and all that. I agree it shouldn't be done, though. ... Read More
Typical of Hollywood,not content with remaking every classic film we grew up with they have to dillute the memories we have of strong stand alone originals by making half arsed sequels/prequels. The Watchmen is fine just as it is..leave it alone. Besides the two most interesting characters got killed off (and I'm not gonna spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen yet by saying who!). Hollywood you need some new material. ... Read More
I love Watchmen, I've seen it so many times now. There is no way in the world that anyone can make a sequel to this as we all know that nothing can happen
Rorschach - dead
Dr. Manhattan - buggered off somewhere
Comedian - dead
Ozmandias - fuck knows where he went
silk spectre and nightowl - together
and if we all remember the world goes back to normal cos of Rorschach's journel!! ... Read More
It's an interesting universe that has plenty to explore, but leave that to the fanfiction people! Any official sequel/prequel is the worst idea in the history of bad ideas. Except maybe greenlighting the Love Guru. ... Read More
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A room full of people decide these things. Everyone involved is top of their peers and successful and influential, yet still they come together with such hair-brained ideas! And horribly, they usually go through with it, ignoring the very fans they hope will go and watch it. These fools make me want to eat my teeth!!! ... Read More
