Alan Moore’s Nightmare: ‘Watchmen’ Video Game Prequel and Potential Sequels
You ever think they are just trying to piss the guy off?
Photo: Tiscali Games
It’s already been revealed there will be a video game based on the upcoming release of Watchmen from Warner Bros., and as you can see from the image above and the gallery at the end of this article it’s already being promoted as stills from “Watchmen: The End Is Nigh” have hit the Internet. The game will serve as a prequel of sorts to the film in which Rorschach and Night Owl do their superhero work cleaning up the streets of 1972. The games are expected to earn a mature (M) rating and will be available for download on PCs, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
“Watchmen” co-creator, Alan Moore, has always been against the film adaptation of his acclaimed graphic novel, but since he doesn’t hold the rights to give the thumbs up or down to the go ahead he simply chooses to ignore its existence. One has to wonder what he thinks of a prequel story to his novel being written and then released in video game form no less. Then again, I guess that is nothing compared to what may soon become should the film adaptation become a major hit.
Revealed in a new Los Angeles Times piece regarding the Fox vs. Warner Bros. lawsuit over the rights to Watchmen, a legal battle in which Fox believes Warners infringed on Fox’s rights when Watchmen producer Lawrence Gordon gave Warners rights he didn’t possess. Warners says Fox’s claim is baseless and, as one of its court filing says, “opportunistic” — a last-minute, backdoor attempt to cash in on another studio’s potential hit. Word is Fox is not only trying to stop the film’s release until matters are solved, but “they are also fighting over sequel rights,” says entertainment attorney Mel Avanzado, who is not involved in the litigatio.
Avanzado told the Los Angeles Times, “Whoever controls the franchise probably controls quite a bit.”
If Alan Moore was in any way involved in this mess I am sure he would be close to spontaneous combustion. Moore wasn’t necessarily against his work being adapted for the big screen when his stories were adapted into From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, however, a lawsuit that bubbled up surrounding League insulted Moore to the point he no longer wanted to be involved or know anything about his work being turned into films. Moore had his name removed from the credits on V for Vendetta and does not wish to be named in the credits for Watchmen. I can’t help but wonder what he would do to an interviewer ballsy enough to ask him what he thought of the video game prequel and potential 20th Century Fox sequel to Watchmen. After all, Fox is the studio that released From Hell and League, the films that started it all.
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