Comments on: HBO Contemplating a Watchmen TV Series

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 01:54:00 +0000

The “Before Watchmen” mini serie(s) were written by different artists and writers and were prequels to the graphic novel. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the original creative team of “The Watchmen” had nothing to do with it.
I doubt the HBO series will go into the worlds of “Before Watchmen”.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:44:00 +0000

Once they decided to do it they pulled no stops. Watchmen has continually been one of their top selling books for the last 30 years so it only make sense, I guess

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:26:00 +0000

Oh it was 8 separate series? Man, they really milked that, didn’t they?

I’ll update the post, thanks!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:04:00 +0000

Before watchmen actually consisted of 8 limited series and one one-shot issue, totalling 37 issues.

I thought the film was ok, but nowhere near as great as the comic. Snyder was gratuitously ramping up the violence and lingering on fight scenes that in many cases in the comic only were single frames.

And for Alan Moore not to like an adaptation doesn’t take much. As far as I know he hasn’t liked any of the many adaptations of his work.

By: 1138sw

1138sw — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:32:00 +0000

I enjoyed the Snyder version and though I loved the graphic novel I thought the movie was tighter and actually tad better executed in the end. The movie was very underrated and under appreciated.

It was definitely Snyder’s best for me other than 300. The rest of his movie catalog really disappoints including the MOS.

The Watchmen is definitely well suited for Mini series material and yeah I would be into it for sure.

By: Matt Gaffney

Matt Gaffney — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:32:00 +0000

Always thought a mini-series on HBO would’ve been a much better fit for the original graphic novel. I’d watch whatever they end up putting together with this.