• 'From Hell' TV Show In The Works

    We've just run down a whopping thirty potential film-to-TV series developments that are in the works right now, and those sit alongside the many comic book to TV properties that are in development. Now, that list is already outdated. One of the most recent announcements is that the excellent Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell comic…

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  • Alan Moore's 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Set Up As Fox TV Pilot

    The film version of Alan Moore's pulp/literary team-up comic series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was notable for being only the second of Moore's comics to hit the big screen, and unfortunately famous for being Sean Connery's last live-action feature role. It's a pretty lousy piece of work, that film, that is mostly infamous for being…

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  • Alan Moore, Hater Of Alan Moore Movies, Now Writing Movies

    Although several several movies -- including From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen -- have been based on graphic novels by Alan Moore, you wouldn't necessarily know it by glancing at the credits. The writer has gone out of his way to distance himself from big screen adaptations of his work. He's been perfectly candid…

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  • DC Announces Seven 'Before Watchmen' Prequel Series [Gallery]

    For over twenty years, DC has wanted to capitalize on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' best-selling and standard-setting mini-series/graphic novel Watchmen by releasing additional stories featuring the same characters. Ideas about prequel series have been discussed since even before Watchmen's publication, with writer Alan Moore floating the idea of a Minutemen prequel series in '85,…

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  • Watchmen 2 Looks Like A Real Possibility

    Why hasn't there ever been second series of Watchmen comics? It's not as though Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons actually own the characters. Well, apparently, any talk of a sequel had been squashed, time and again, by Paul Levitz, former president of DC comics. He was very protective of the title, even denying the creators…

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  • The Alan Moore And Neil Gaiman $80 Million Marvelman Movie That Never Was

    Digging deep behind the scenes of the recent purchase by Marvel of the character Marvelman (aka Miracleman) from Mick Anglo and Emotiv Records, Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool has discovered an aborted $80 million Marvelman movie, based upon the Alan Moore run of the comics and - if it all went to plan - co-scripted…

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  • Movie Review: Watchmen - A Cinematic Achievement In Adaptation

    [This review is spoiler-free] Watchmen first appeared on my radar years ago when I'd heard that one of my favorite directors, Paul Greengrass, was slated to helm the big-screen adaptation. I'm not a huge comic book reader, but I'd heard so many complimentary things about the graphic novel that I was induced to buy myself…

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  • Big Love: Seth Rogen On Michel Gondry, Alan Moore On Terry Gilliam

    David Chen is one lucky /Filmer because he got to post last night's piece on Michel Gondry directing the Green Hornet movie. Actually, you're lucky I didn't do it myself because it would have been so excitable and squealing I'd have had to design a new font especially, and possibly even colored all of the…

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  • Alan Moore Still Isn't Watching The Watchmen

    Watchmen creator Alan Moore is notorious for not being involved in the big screen adaptations of his comic book properties. Director Zack Snyder told fans at Comic Con last year that the best he can hope for is that Alan Moore will someday watch the DVD and say, “You know, they didn’t f*** it up…

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  • Zack Snyder Reveals Watchmen Storyboards

    Director Zack Snyder has posted the two storyboards viewed below for his 2009 tent pole, Watchmen, on the film's official website. The storyboards, which map out scenes with Rorschach, can be seen as yet another gage of how faithful Snyder is staying to Alan Moore's championed graphic novel. Snyder goes into considerable detail about this…

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  • Alan Moore Is NOT Watching The Watchman

    Watchmen has surprised even the harshest of critics so far. Even original artist Dave Gibbons has praised the film's production for it's accuracy and amazing detail that Zack Snyder is putting into the big screen adaptation. So what about creator Alan Moore, who has been extremely vocal in the past against the adaptations of his…

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