{"id":1703689,"date":"2022-10-20T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703689"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:39:29","slug":"watchmen-creator-alan-moore-officially-disowns-hbo-miniseries-its-embarrassing-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchmen-creator-alan-moore-officially-disowns-hbo-miniseries-its-embarrassing-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWatchmen\u201d Creator Alan Moore Officially Disowns HBO Miniseries: \u201cIt\u2019s Embarrassing to Me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatchmen-creator-alan-moore-officially-disowns-hbo-miniseries-its-embarrassing-to-me%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703689&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <em>Watchmen<\/em> miniseries that served as a sequel to the graphic novel and aired on HBO has met its harshest critic. To no one\u2019s surprise, it is creator Alan Moore himself who disapproved of the adaptation and openly disowns it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_184598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184598\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.40-boundingintocomics-6344bb6fdacb4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.40-boundingintocomics-6344bb6fdacb4.png 750w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.40-boundingintocomics-6344bb6fdacb4-300x160.png 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-184598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Alan Moore \u2013 Creating An Authentic Character \u2013 Storytelling, BBC Maestro YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/10\/10\/watchmen-creator-alan-moore-says-adults-who-enjoy-super-hero-media-are-engaging-in-a-kind-of-infantilisation-that-can-very-often-be-a-precursor-to-fascism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Watchmen\u2019 Creator Alan Moore Says Adults Who Enjoy Super Hero Media Are Engaging In A \u201cKind Of Infantilisation That Can Very Often Be A Precursor To Fascism\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moore went into detail in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/alan-moore-interview?utm_brand=gq&#038;utm_social-type=owned&#038;mbid=social_twitter&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>GQ Magazine<\/em><\/a> about a letter he received from the miniseries showrunner Damon Lindelof. \u201cDear Mr. Moore, I am one of the bastards currently destroying \u2018Watchmen,\u2019\u201d it opened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat wasn\u2019t the best opener,\u201d Moore said. \u201cIt went on through a lot of, what seemed to me to be, neurotic rambling. \u2018Can you at least tell us how to pronounce \u2018Ozymandias\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_185836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185836\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.19-01.35-boundingintocomics-634f5447e4747.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.19-01.35-boundingintocomics-634f5447e4747.png 1600w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.19-01.35-boundingintocomics-634f5447e4747-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.19-01.35-boundingintocomics-634f5447e4747-1340x553-1.png 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.19-01.35-boundingintocomics-634f5447e4747-768x317-1.png 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-185836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Watchmen (2009), Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The writer went on to admit his response might have been hostile but it was emphatic that he didn\u2019t want to be contacted. \u201cI got back with a very abrupt and probably hostile reply telling him that I\u2019d thought that Warner Bros. [was] aware that they, nor any of their employees, shouldn\u2019t contact me again for any reason,\u201d Moore added.<\/p>\n<p>He would reiterate his request while also calling the show embarrassing. \u201cI explained that I had disowned the work in question, and partly that was because the film industry and the comics industry seemed to have created things that had nothing to do with my work, but which would be associated with it in the public mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_122979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122979\" class=\"wp-image-122979 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2021.06.14-09.10-boundingintocomics-60c7c5ca9f8ef.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2021.06.14-09.10-boundingintocomics-60c7c5ca9f8ef.png 760w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021.06.14-09.10-boundingintocomics-60c7c5ca9f8ef-300x156.png 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-122979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Watchmen #12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2020\/10\/10\/alan-moore-superhero-movies-infantilized-and-blighted-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Moore: Superhero Movies Infantilized and \u201cBlighted Culture\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Look, this is embarrassing to me,\u201d Moore would continue. \u201c\u2019I don\u2019t want anything to do with you or your show. Please don\u2019t bother me again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindelof\u2019s <em>Watchmen<\/em> went on to be a hit with critics and at the Emmys, where the star Regina King won big, but Moore didn\u2019t see the appeal. \u201cWhen I saw the television industry awards that the \u2018Watchmen\u2019 television show had apparently won, I thought, \u2018Oh, god, perhaps a large part of the public, this is what they think \u2018Watchmen\u2019 was?\u2019\u201d he pondered.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149260\" class=\"wp-image-149260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.02.09-08.22-boundingintocomics-6204227546b07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.02.09-08.22-boundingintocomics-6204227546b07.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022.02.09-08.22-boundingintocomics-6204227546b07-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.02.09-08.22-boundingintocomics-6204227546b07-768x327-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-149260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Watchmen (2009), Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey think that it was a dark, gritty, dystopian superhero franchise that was something to do with white supremacism,\u201d he continued. \u201c\u2018Watchmen\u2019 was nearly 40 years ago and was relatively simple in comparison with a lot of my later work. What are the chances that they broadly understood anything since? This tends to make me feel less than fond of those works. They mean a bit less in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As such, Moore has never seen either HBO\u2019s <em>Watchmen<\/em> or Zack Snyder\u2019s adaptation of the graphic novel. Likewise, he is notoriously adamant about not watching any adaptation of his tales. \u201cI would be the last person to want to sit through any adaptations of my work. From what I\u2019ve heard of them, it would be enormously punishing. It would be torturous, and for no very good reason,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_184585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184585\" class=\"wp-image-184585 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.18-boundingintocomics-6344b65ac3796-scaled-e1665447767231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1664\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.18-boundingintocomics-6344b65ac3796-scaled-e1665447767231.jpg 1664w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.18-boundingintocomics-6344b65ac3796-scaled-e1665447767231-208x300-1.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.18-boundingintocomics-6344b65ac3796-scaled-e1665447767231-1340x1933-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.18-boundingintocomics-6344b65ac3796-scaled-e1665447767231-768x1108-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.18-boundingintocomics-6344b65ac3796-scaled-e1665447767231-1065x1536-1.jpg 1065w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.11-12.18-boundingintocomics-6344b65ac3796-scaled-e1665447767231-1420x2048-1.jpg 1420w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-184585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Watchmen #12 \u201cA Strong and Loving World\u201d (1987), DC Comics. Words by Alan Moore, art by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Watchmen,<\/em> both the HBO miniseries produced by Damon Lindelof and the film directed by Snyder, are currently available on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2020\/09\/23\/letterer-jim-campbell-blasts-dc-comics-and-tom-king-for-watchmen-spin-off-series-rorschach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letterer Jim Campbell Blasts DC Comics and Tom King for Watchmen Spin-off Series Rorschach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watchmen miniseries that served as a sequel to the graphic novel and aired on HBO has met its harshest critic. 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