WRITER Alan Moore, whose award-winning graphic novel Watchmen is being turned into a movie by director Zack Snyder, has hit out at the film project and says most big-screen comicbook adaptations are "pointless." Moore, 54 - who lives in Northampton, England, and also wrote the original comicbooks behind movies V for Vendetta, From Hell, Constantine and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - believes Watchmen could never be successfully translated to film and says the comicbook was deliberately created to do what celluloid could never achieve. Asked by Entertainment Weekly if he was curious about what Watchmen director Zack Snyder was doing with his material, Moore said: "I would rather not know. He's supposed to be a very nice guy. He may very well be, but the thing is that he's also the person who made 300. "I've not seen any recent comicbook films, but I didn't particularly like the book 300. I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid. I know that that's not what people going in to see a film like 300 are thinking about but...I wasn't impressed with that. "I talked to [director] Terry Gilliam in the 80s, and he asked me how I would make Watchmen into a film. I said: 'Well actually, Terry, if anybody asked me, I would have said 'I wouldn't.' And I think that Terry [who aborted ...
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WRITER Alan Moore, whose award-winning graphic novel Watchmen is being turned into a movie by director Zack Snyder, has hit out at the film project and says most big-screen comicbook adaptations are "pointless." Moore, 54 - who lives in Northampton, England, and also wrote the original comicbooks behind movies V for Vendetta, From Hell, Constantine and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - believes Watchmen could never be successfully translated to film and says the comicbook was deliberately created to do what celluloid could never achieve. Asked by Entertainment Weekly if he was curious about what Watchmen director Zack Snyder was doing with his material, Moore said: "I would rather not know. He's supposed to be a very nice guy. He may very well be, but the thing is that he's also the person who made 300. "I've not seen any recent comicbook films, but I didn't particularly like the book 300. I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid. I know that that's not what people going in to see a film like 300 are thinking about but...I wasn't impressed with that. "I talked to [director] Terry Gilliam in the 80s, and he asked me how I would make Watchmen into a film. I said: 'Well actually, Terry, if anybody asked me, I would have said 'I wouldn't.' And I think that Terry [who aborted ...