![]() ![]() ![]() "I received a bulky parcel, through Federal Express, that arrived here in my sedate little living room," Moore recalled. In approaching Moore, Lindelof seemed to be attempting to be good-humored about the author's own distaste for adaptations, but it didn't go well. ![]() It came in the form of a delivery from Watchmen showrunner Damon Lindelof, who remixed elements of the comic by Moore and artist Dave Gibbons for an acclaimed and Emmy-winning HBO miniseries in 2019. In a new interview with GQ promoting his short story collection Illuminations, Moore explained what he describes as a "concluding incident" in his understanding of how Hollywood treats his work. The writer, who changed the comics industry forever when he broke through in the 1980s, has never been shy about discussing his distaste for screen translations of his books, but in a new interview, Moore went further, explaining that over time, he's actually lost some of his own attachment to the work in question, because of the ways in which it grew beyond him. Alan Moore famously doesn't care for adaptations of his work, which includes comics classics like From Hell, V for Vendetta, and of course the legendary deconstructionist superhero masterpiece, Watchmen. ![]()
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