When a film based on a comic that is still considered a masterpiece in the artform of comics, telling a mature and sophisticated story. The long and rough road that Watchmen took to get to the big screen was left with a whimper as many hardcore fans were excited to see it so faithfully presented, while others just couldn’t get into it and tore it apart.
So with such polar opposites on the critical review, and boxoffice results barely breaking even for this film, I am surprised they want to kick this dead horse again. It was a momentous event, but it was what it was, now walk away. But no… we may yet see a Watchmen 2 or a Prequel.
When Paul Levitz left his position as President and publisher of DC Comics it left the story of the WATCHMEN alone, vulnerable, and ready to be exploited by anyone. Dido
has taken it upon himself to crusade for prequels, sequels, and spin-offs for the world that is occupied by Rorschach, Nite Owl II, Dr. Manhattan, Silk Spectre II, Ozymandias, amongst many others.Levitz stayed loyal to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, saying that he knew they would be against anything WATCHMEN 2. Now with Levitz out of the picture and Moore disassociating himself completely from his own work, this leaves Dido free to do what he wants.
I dont need to see one frame more of the Watchmen. Originally when Moore wrote Watchmen, it was proposed for existing characters in the DC Universe, but since Moore’s proposed story would irreparibly change these characters, leaving many of them completely unusable in future books, DC Editor at the time Dick Giordano convinced Moore to adapt his story to original characters instead.
There is a reason they didn’t write more comics based on the characters. The story is complete. It starts, it has a middle and it has a resolution. The world moves on. The story was character driven, and superhero second. Beautiful and unprecedented in comics when the collected volumes came out, but what made it so legendary was that it stood perfectly as a single story.
Exploit it to hell to make a buck? Not surprised. But I can’t see a lot of support for this since it was only the die hards that saw or liked the movie to begin with.
This is a bad move.
