Alan Moore Disowned The HBO Watchmen Series
Alan Moore, co-creator of Watchmen along with Dave Gibbons, doesn't spare any words he has for his former creative home at DC and Warner Bros. His groundbreaking comic series essentially reinvented superhero comes in the mid-1980s and has become one of the most important pieces of comic book history ever.
Watchmen, originally released as a 12-part maxi-series, now one of the best-selling graphic novels ever, was adapted in 2009 by Zack Snyder, who even then caught wind of Moore's displeasure with the adaption. Moore and Gibbons were promised the rights back to the characters from DC should it ever go out of print. Well, the success caught both the creators and the publishing behemoth off guard with DC obviously never letting go of the Watchmen anytime soon. Moore has held a grudge towards DC and has removed himself from any and all adaptations of his work.
Recently, the author revealed to GQ magazine that he's also disowned HBO's Emmy-winning adaptation of Watchmen and told the showrunner never to contact him. According to Moore, the showrunner sent him a letter during the HBO show's development and wrote, «Dear Mr. Moore, I am one of the bastards currently destroying Watchmen.» In the piece, Moore didn't point fingers at exactly who sent it, but Damon Lindelof was in that position.
«That wasn't the best opener, it went on through a lot of, what seemed to me to be, neurotic rambling. 'Can you at least tell us how to pronounce „Ozymandias“?,» Moore explained. «I got back with a very abrupt and probably hostile reply telling him that I'd thought that Warner Bros. were aware that they, nor any of their employees, shouldn't contact me again for any reason.»
Moore continued to elaborate on his history with the entertainment
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