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DC honchos say Alan Moore shoulda read his Watchmen contract
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DC honchos say Alan Moore shoulda read his Watchmen contract
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With the controversial Before Watchmen prequel series just a few months
from release, DC execs are making the rounds, trying to explain to jaded
comic fans why the project is a good idea. Their take on original
Watchmen creator Alan Moore's complaints? Well, he should have read his
contract a little closer.
In a sit-down with Collider , DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan
DiDio and Jim Lee were asked to respond to Moore's outspoken
opposition to the prequels. Lee pulled no punches in his response,
noting that the rights issues that have upset Moore so much were in the
fine print from the very beginning:
"In this piece of journalism, it only cites interviews Alan has given.
People will listen if it's polarizing and one sided enough. This is not
a situation where we have taken things from Alan. He signed an agreement
and yet he said 'I didn't read the contract.' I can't force him to read
his contract. So there's all these things that people don't know and
Alan has said that explicitlyâ€"there are all these things that
mitigate or go into the analysis. It's not as clear-cut as people want
to make it seem... It's not a situation where we're using the characters
and Alan's not being compensated. For everything that's been done for
Watchmen from the books to the movie, money has gone his way. The right
amount that he deserves based on the contract. So we have honored that
part of the agreement. It is something that can definitely be debated
but to say that there is clearly one side that is right, I will dispute
that."
As for the pushback from original Watchmen fans about the plan to dig
into the characters' pasts, DiDio said the Watchmen have been on the
sidelines for far too long.
"One of the things I've tried to say to a number of folks is that in a
baseball game you don't leave your best players on the bench," he said.
"You have to go out with your best foot forward. The things that are
most recognizable, that people want to seeâ€"so I felt that it was
in the company's best interest to go ahead with Watchmen."
Lee said he hopes the prequels will appeal to both longtime comics fans
as well as those who jumped on the bandwagon when the 2009 Watchmen film
was released.
"We felt that this would be a great opportunity for us to reach out to
the new readers and see if we can convert them into longtime readers.
You want to lead with your best foot and give them a flavor of something
they already know," he said. "All the creators on these books sought to
match or outdo what was done in the original. I don't think anyone is
going, 'Oh if I'm only 50 percent as good [as the original], that would
be great.' These guysâ€"they're true artists."
What do you think? Can the prequels match Moore's seminal original?
(via Collider )
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With the controversial Before Watchmen prequel series just a few months
from release, DC execs are making the rounds, trying to explain to jaded
comic fans why the project is a good idea. Their take on original
Watchmen creator Alan Moore's complaints? Well, he should have read his
contract a little closer.
In a sit-down with Collider , DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan
DiDio and Jim Lee were asked to respond to Moore's outspoken
opposition to the prequels. Lee pulled no punches in his response,
noting that the rights issues that have upset Moore so much were in the
fine print from the very beginning:
"In this piece of journalism, it only cites interviews Alan has given.
People will listen if it's polarizing and one sided enough. This is not
a situation where we have taken things from Alan. He signed an agreement
and yet he said 'I didn't read the contract.' I can't force him to read
his contract. So there's all these things that people don't know and
Alan has said that explicitlyâ€"there are all these things that
mitigate or go into the analysis. It's not as clear-cut as people want
to make it seem... It's not a situation where we're using the characters
and Alan's not being compensated. For everything that's been done for
Watchmen from the books to the movie, money has gone his way. The right
amount that he deserves based on the contract. So we have honored that
part of the agreement. It is something that can definitely be debated
but to say that there is clearly one side that is right, I will dispute
that."
As for the pushback from original Watchmen fans about the plan to dig
into the characters' pasts, DiDio said the Watchmen have been on the
sidelines for far too long.
"One of the things I've tried to say to a number of folks is that in a
baseball game you don't leave your best players on the bench," he said.
"You have to go out with your best foot forward. The things that are
most recognizable, that people want to seeâ€"so I felt that it was
in the company's best interest to go ahead with Watchmen."
Lee said he hopes the prequels will appeal to both longtime comics fans
as well as those who jumped on the bandwagon when the 2009 Watchmen film
was released.
"We felt that this would be a great opportunity for us to reach out to
the new readers and see if we can convert them into longtime readers.
You want to lead with your best foot and give them a flavor of something
they already know," he said. "All the creators on these books sought to
match or outdo what was done in the original. I don't think anyone is
going, 'Oh if I'm only 50 percent as good [as the original], that would
be great.' These guysâ€"they're true artists."
What do you think? Can the prequels match Moore's seminal original?
(via Collider )
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See more blastr.com stories on Digg.com
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Reviews Rumors Science Syfy Channel Theater Top
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