Alan Moore talks about V for Vendetta, and how he hates movies

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I'll have to watch this later. Alan Moore is a talented, brilliant guy, but how he often pretentiously sets himself (note: not his work) aside from "the rest" gets a little annoying from time to time.

Although I like comics (as I draw, myself), I prefer film. That said, and on a different note, I understand why he'd rather his work not be adapted into film. The style in which his dialogue and art is carried within the pages of a comic book will, more than likely, not be translated to film properly.

Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that the film adaptation of V for Vendetta is going to be terrible.
 
Wow !
That is one wonderfully wierd dude.
I just don't understand how if Mr. Moore doesn't want movies made, how do they get made ?
Do the publishers have the authority to sell it to Hollywood without his permission ?
 
[quote name='y2jedi']Wow !
That is one wonderfully wierd dude.
I just don't understand how if Mr. Moore doesn't want movies made, how do they get made ?
Do the publishers have the authority to sell it to Hollywood without his permission ?[/QUOTE]
That was my thought, I'd assume he'd have some ownership of his creations.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/movies/12itzk.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3

Two years later, when 20th Century Fox released a movie version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," the screenwriter Larry Cohen and the producer Martin Poll sued the studio, charging that elements of the film had been plagiarized from their work. Though the film, which was one of the year's costliest flops, differed drastically from the graphic novel, the lawsuit nonetheless claimed that the "Extraordinary Gentlemen" comics had been created as a "smokescreen" to cover up the theft.

Mr. Moore found the accusations deeply insulting, and the 10 hours of testimony he was compelled to give, via video link, even more so. "If I had raped and murdered a schoolbus full of retarded children after selling them heroin," he said, "I doubt that I would have been cross-examined for 10 hours." When the case was settled out of court, Mr. Moore took it as an especially bitter blow, believing that he had been denied the chance to exonerate himself.
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"If I had raped and murdered a schoolbus full of retarded children after selling them heroin," he said, "I doubt that I would have been cross-examined for 10 hours."
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That's got to be up there on the list of all-time greatest quotes. :lol:
 
because he wrote them for D.C. - except for From Hell - they hold almost all of the rights for the creations - it's really fucked up.

Marvel and D.C. are both shitty companies and once I read stuff on CBLDF.org I stopped buying stuff from either company.

as for Moore's works being impossible on film - basically the structure of the 9 panel grid layout is so essential to the way the stories are told, as well as the delayed "closure" effect of comics in general that I find a lot of the best and most interesting aspects of his works rendered completely false in movies.

I can't wait to see them fuck up the watchmen. except that i won't.
 
[quote name='Sleepkyng']because he wrote them for D.C. - except for From Hell - they hold almost all of the rights for the creations - it's really fucked up.

Marvel and D.C. are both shitty companies and once I read stuff on CBLDF.org I stopped buying stuff from either company.

as for Moore's works being impossible on film - basically the structure of the 9 panel grid layout is so essential to the way the stories are told, as well as the delayed "closure" effect of comics in general that I find a lot of the best and most interesting aspects of his works rendered completely false in movies.

I can't wait to see them fuck up the watchmen. except that i won't.[/QUOTE]

Yeah but 3rd party comic companies can be just as bad. Just look at what went down with Dreamwave.
 
[quote name='y2jedi']Wow !
That is one wonderfully wierd dude.
I just don't understand how if Mr. Moore doesn't want movies made, how do they get made ?
Do the publishers have the authority to sell it to Hollywood without his permission ?[/QUOTE]

It depends, just as you mentioned as an author you don't automatically hold the rights to something you create, publishers or other entities sometimes do. Also authors sometimes sell the rights quickly after creation, but the movie or other adaptation may not be made for years and years. In the case of V for Vendetta (and most of his works actually IIRC) I think he knowingly sold the rights like 18 years ago or something like that, long before he noticed how bad Hollywood can mess up your work.
 
If he hadn't sold the film rights, he wouldn't have this problem. His artist doesn't seem to feel the need to whine as much.
 
[quote name='willardhaven']So he didn't sell the rights? They just automatically had them since the books were written under their label?[/QUOTE]
From the NYTimes article (it doesn't mention when this occurred):
Mr. Lloyd, the illustrator of "V for Vendetta," also found it difficult to sympathize with Mr. Moore's protests. When he and Mr. Moore sold their film rights to the graphic novel, Mr. Lloyd said: "We didn't do it innocently. Neither myself nor Alan thought we were signing it over to a board of trustees who would look after it like it was the Dead Sea Scrolls."
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Saw V twice already. I've read the comic, and while there are changes, the overall spirit of the comic is there. I felt the big elements, like Evey's prison, were done perfectly. The "toilet paper" back story is done exactly like the comic.
 
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