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Ready For Watchmen 2?
DC Comics prepares the ground
Source: Bleeding Cool
Ready For Watchmen 2?

That crackling sound you can hear is Alan Moore setting fire to his beard. Comics news site Bleeding Cool is reporting that, in the wake of Zack Snyder's block-rocking Watchmen movie, DC is thinking the unthinkable. Alan Moore's graphic novel, untouched for twenty years, may finally get the franchise treatment.

The word is that, despite DC's very public falling out with the irascible Moore, head honcho Paul Levitz was always adamant that Watchmen, at least in print form, was not to be messed with. But with Levitz stepping down, Watchmen is now without in-house defenders. And with the movie propelling the book to the status of DC's all-time bestseller, the barbarians are howling at the gates.

Apparently an expanded Watchmen universe is now the pet project of DC's senior vice president Dan Didio, who has visions of a series of comics prequels, sequels and spin-offs, and, of course, further movies.

It'd be something of a poisoned chalice for any writer or artist that took it on: the only person that could feasibly attempt it without getting the full force of fanboy vilification would be original Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons, who was more amenable to the movie than his writing cohort. But even Gibbons would be on very thin ice.

Maybe you think all this roping off of Watchmen is being a bit precious. Maybe (whisper it) you thought the ending of the movie worked rather better than the ending of the book. Maybe you'd like to see more. Or maybe you'd just like to see Rorschach let loose in the DC offices. Is there anywhere for the story to logically go next? Your thoughts, as always, below...

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Just....no.

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

The thing that made watchmen an amazing movie was the fact that it was one of a kind, it was original and made an impact, any new additions will just ruin the franchise if you ask me, I doubt the second movie will do anything big IMO

 

[Uncle Sam]

The first one was shit as it is.

 

[ZeroVX]

No. No no no no NO.

 

[X]

What the fuck. Fuck you. Fuck you all.

I'm sending Alan Moore a care package. He's going to be royally pissed about this.

Fuck you Hollywood. Why not come out with The Bible---Part Two!

 

[Lee]

See I had heard this before Watchmen was even released but all the main actors all said they wouldn't do Wtahcmen if the studio made others.

 

[The Doctor]

No. No no no no NO.

This with the power of a drill that will pierce the heavens.

 

[The Hiphopapotamus]

The movie was pretty shit

 

[The Doctor]

The movie was pretty shit

Says you.

 

[X]

No, it was Doc. I liked it too when I first saw it in theaters. Than I watched it again when it came out on DVD and couldn't believe just how badly I had judged the film initially. The first hour or so is quite brilliant, but it quickly falls after that and never recovers.

 

[Theo Mays]

The movie was pretty shit

I haven't seen it yet, but this is what I've heard from those who I know that have. Maybe I'll borrow it from my uncle someday.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Fuck you Hollywood. Why not come out with The Bible---Part Two!

You mean The New Testament?

 

[Pepe Silvia]

What the fuck. Fuck you. Fuck you all.

I'm sending Alan Moore a care package. He's going to be royally pissed about this.

Fuck you Hollywood. Why not come out with The Bible---Part Two!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_(film) ?

 

[X]

You mean The New Testament?

 

[The Doctor]

No, it was Doc. I liked it too when I first saw it in theaters. Than I watched it again when it came out on DVD and couldn't believe just how badly I had judged the film initially. The first hour or so is quite brilliant, but it quickly falls after that and never recovers.

It's a watch-once movie for me. It's enjoyable on first viewing but I don't really want to see it again for fears of it not being very good the second time.

The comic is still amazing.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

I couldn't really get into Watchmen for some reason. Soon as I heard it wasn't like the comic I was all :/

 

[The Doctor]

It IS like the comic. It's EXACTLY like the comic.

 

[TLC]

I thought it was decent first time I watched it. Second time was shit.

 

[X]

It IS like the comic. It's EXACTLY like the comic.

It's really not, at all. Oh it sticks to the plot, yes, but it completely and massively fails in exploring any of the themes of the comic. It's superficial and Alan Moore had every right to call it a piece of steaming shit.

 

[Scotty]

They can't do this. Everyone's favorite character had a disappointing ending in the first one. I will however take 2 hours of Malin Akerman tits.

 

[a0161613]

X, if Hollywood thought they could make money out The Bible 2, they would have done it already.

Oh wait....

 

[The Doctor]

The comic ending is such a mindfuck for me. I mean, it feels like a happy ending but then you realize what will happen, so it's...not.