Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: READ EVERYTHING BY MOORE

[quote name="Bill Dungsroman"]Or so my brain blares loudly quite often. Top Ten and League (ugh, LXG? D00d x-treeeeme!) are awesome. But then so are Promethea and Tom Strong (and his related books). He and Warren Ellis are easily the two best mainstream comic writers today (Moore, maybe EVAR). I love my comic book owner geek guy, he has a Moore and an Ellis section, and gets every goddamn thing they make and keeps it stocked. Moore wrote the intro for Ellis' Planetary's first TPB (I believe, and Joss Whedon wrote for the second). He talks about comics in general. I'd love to reprint it here, but copywrite and all that. Man, when I first saw the League trailer, I crapped myself. OMGOMGOMG. And then, no advance previews for critics. Uh oh. No surprise, I guess, that it sucks. Moore has said in an interview, somewhat sheepishly, that he'll sell the rights to one of his books and then walk the fuck away, rationalizing that whatever they end up doing is the movie studio's product, and not really his. It's not <I>Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</I> in theaters, mind. It's a real shame, League is a great concept that could translate well to film, since all the characters are pretty well-known. But, you knew they had to Hollywoodify it, removing Quatermain's history as an opium addict (I'm sure), the Invisible Man's intro, probably even Hyde's. Pity, too, since the previews show Mina using vampiric powers, which I think is pretty cool. I wonder if they'll go the whole bit and have a bunch of fictional characters make cameos (like the Artful Dodger, the Holmes brothers and Moriarty, etc); I doubt it. BDR [/quote]