Alan Moore asks Warner not to call him after “reprehensible” series of “Watchmen”

Ever since Alan Moore became one of the foremost comic writers in the middle, he has had quite a bit of resentment over the adaptations that have been made of his work. And after the premiere of the ‘Watchmen’ series on HBO, creator Damon Lindelof tried to contact him, only getting the anger of the author, who reiterated that he has no intention of relating to Warner.

Although the series of ‘Guardians’won multiple Emmys and praised by fans and critics alike, for Alan Moore it was the last straw. The writer has long been asking that his name be removed from any adaptation of his work, and now the creator of ‘From Hell’ is asking Warner not to call him again, nor to any other production company that wants to contact him. .the.

In a speech for GQ, Alan Moore says he received a letter from Damon Lindelofexecutive producer and showrunner of ‘Guardians’for HBO, which tells the beginning with, “‘ Dear Mr. Moore, I’m one of the bastards who are currently destroying Watchmen. ‘ It wasn’t the best introduction, ”Moore said. The writer claims that Lindelof at some point in the text asked him how to pronounce the name Ozymandias.

The response, according to Alan Moore, was “abrupt” and “hostile”, reminding the showrunner that “Warner Brothers was aware that neither they nor any of its employees should contact me again for no reason”.

The creator of “Watchmen” didn’t want to work on the HBO series

Furthermore, Alan Moore states that Lindelof did not want to work on “Watchmen”, and in the letter he sent him he wrote the reasons why he wanted to withdraw from the project. Moore admits that he completely disowned when he was informed that there was going to be another series in the world that he had envisioned along with Dave Gibbons.

“I explained that I had disowned the work in question, and in part because the film and comic industry seemed to have created things that had nothing to do with my work, but that would have been associated with it in the mind of the Moore relates Alan Moore’s response was to ask that neither Warner nor anyone else bother him or speak to him for advice on an adaptation of his work.

“I told him, ‘Look, this is embarrassing for me. I don’t want to have anything to do with you or your show. Please don’t bother me anymore. ”

“I’d be the last person to want to see any adaptation of my work. From what I’ve heard of them, it would be a huge punishment. It would be torture, and for no good reason. “The author believes that” Watchmen “was a work discredited by Zack Snyder’s adaptation and that over the years he believes fewer and fewer people understand it, despite being” my work. easier”.