In a late interview with Wired to promote his spoken word set Unearthing , Moore claimed that DC offer him the right to Watchmen this week , albeit with certain unsavory stipulations .
Here ’s what Moore say toUnderwire :
They offered me the rights to Watchmen back , if I would check to some dopey prequels and sequels [ … ] So I just differentiate them that if they said that 10 years ago , when I asked them for that , then yeah it might have worked [ … ] But these twenty-four hour period I do n’t require Watchmen back . for sure , I do n’t need it back under those kind of terms [ … ] I do n’t even have a copy of Watchmen in the mansion anymore [ … ] The comics world has lots of unpleasant connections , when I think back over it , many of them to do with Watchmen .
However , Don Murphy , the manufacturer of the Transformers enfranchisement and the film adaptations of Moore ’s books From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , claims that the source ’s embellishing things , as Moore does n’t own Watchmen — the Watchmen film got made , remember?Says Murphy on his web site :
Alan Moore does n’t OWN Watchmen . Any of it . DC Comics does . It can do sequels now . And prequels .
And any damn thing it wants . So why would DC offer to give Alan back something in exchange for something it already owns ? ? ? ?
[ … ] Once , many years ago , DC was going to do Watchmen figures . They require ALan to support them and he did . They did this as a courtesy , not because he had any right hand . ALan THEN went mental over some other perceived slight and withdrew his financial support . DC respected that and scrapped the toys . But by the time the film get out last year , they were done with his constant whining . They released toys , videogames , take in of books , book fool and sticker . They could give a bastard about Alan Moore who had become a lamentable , bloody-minded Grandpa jaw at the shift winds .
In any showcase , Watchmen argument are so last decade . Let ’s get a young Moore - related brouhaha for 2010 , like who ’s going to release a $ 150 million Lost Girls summertime collapsible shelter - pole flick .
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