Which Alan Moore creation WOULD make a good movie?

Any of the non-anthology ABC comics would do well. Maybe not Smax.

I'd rather they didn't film Halo Jones: they'd only break it.

V for Vendetta - nobody would watch it.

Actually, after The Matrix came out, there was talk that the next Wachowski brothers flick would be "V for Vendetta". They had supposedly even written a script for the film. Then, of course, they decided to make Matrix II & III instead. But now that Matrix III is soon out, who knows? Anyway, since a Wachowski version of "V" would probably be a big budget Hollywood flick, the anarchist/revolutionary aspect of the story would have to be downplayed, and the messianic/rebirth aspect emphasized; also, a lot more action would probably be added. So, essentially, it would be just another Matrix.

"the stars my degradation" directed by dino de laurentiis
"the stars my degradation" directed by tinto brass
"the stars my degradation" directed by paul verhoeven

(haha perhaps the shd film "skizz" (???? ie the 2000ad serial abt the alien, poss i mis-remember the title)

Anyway, what about Big Numbers (another aborted 10 volume story)? I've read loads of times that people have approached Alan Moore about filming it.

Bo Jefferies could do an Addams Family thing. I mean all his stuff that has reached the screen has really just been take these whacky characters and mess around with them, and they fit that model better than, well better than JC or Jack the Ripper.

say, what WOULD you ideally put on the soundtrack for a Hellblazer flick? Joy Division? The Fall? Basement Jaxx? Suicide?

Yes, and V should be played by some big-name star, only that he would be told what his role is like only after he'd signed the contract. Then you could advertise the flick like "Ben Affleck as V". Imagine the reaction of all the teens who'd come to see the "new Ben Affleck movie".

By the way, John Constantine was created by Moore, but the Hellblazer comic was never written by him, no?

still, the SLF are irish, so perhaps they'd get offended by being roped in with the rest of that lot.

Simeon OTM. That whole storyline should have been called "One Way".

I like the idea of a Laser Eraser & Pressbutton film., if they could do it like it was when they were just being completely stupid. Like that story that was reprinted in a late issue of Warrior from Sounds magazine (that I think was actually written and drawn by Alan Moore under two different pseudonyms).

A Captain Britain could be fun too, if you followed that whole Jaspers storyline and had that unstoppable thing that can't be killed in it. only maybe it has too many elements to make a proper 90 minutes film and should actually be split over three.

I think that is the problem with Alan Moore stories - there's too much in them to turn into films, so you either leave way too much out and disappoint ver fans (and also find that what's left isn't actually enough to hang a film on) or else you try and put too much in so you end up with a sad nerdfest. That's why I think an Axel Pressbutton film could be brilliant - the characters were great in the original comics but the stories were always a bit lame, so a good screenwriter could develop a storyline from the characters without having to bother with all that backstory.

a lot of the shorts Alan Moore did for Doctor Who Monthly & Weekly could be readily de-Doctor Who-ised and turned into interesting horror films. I'm thinking that one about the plastic toy factory, or the one about the Deathsmiths Of Goth.

I suspect that good films could be made, in theory, from much of his work, but I'm fairly confident they won't be. I remember him talking about a proposal to film Watchmen with Arnie as Doctor Manhattan. Alan was less concerned about whether Arnie would do nudity than whether anyone would believe for a second that he could understand nuclear physics.

As for Halo Jones, I nearly sort of ended up doing a nit of a sequel to that: you might recall a 'choose your adventure' (you know, if you pull a gun go to panel 5, if you accept the deal go to panel 27) thing that Pat Mills had charge of. He asked me to do a Halo Jones story for it, which I was going to do as a follow-on to where Alan left it. We did talk about it, and Alan was happy with what I was planning (mainly because he didn't care much about such a project), but I was kind of relieved that it didn't happen, because I knew that doing it would offend people, possibly including me.

That would explain the stoies not being *that* good most of the time. But I have heard that it was Alan Moore who wrote them. when they reprinted the strip written by Pedro Henry and drawn by Curt Vile, they included drawings of the authors and Curt Vile was plainly Alan Moore.

but if we foolishly assume that Steve Moore and Alan Moore are the same person, how about a film of "Father Shandor"?

(NB Diceman = roXoR!)

*ok i wasn't but BLIMEY!!

i'd like to see his 'i can hear the grass grow' strip from, er, i forget where (anyone?). you were meant to photocopy it, cut it out and tape it together in some big moebius strip fashion so the end was the beginning and the beginning was the end. he did something similar, albeit on a 2d page in promethea recently.

andy

And they really shld make 'Top Ten' w/ the cast of Hill St. Blues.

I've read it and still have a copy of it packed somewhere. If you can temporarily forget the comic book it's not that bad of a script (except for the gawd-awful ending) for a generic action movie. The opening scene is rather cool.

I think the short-lived, different-music-theme-per-issue magazine this came from was Heartbreak Hotel.

And on the subject of Alan Moore obscurities, there's always the following, all of which I've heard of, but none of which I've ever read:
- Voice of the Fire (his novel)
- Fashion Beast (his screenplay idea, though I don't know if anything ever came of that or not)
- Sawdust Memories (apparently a prose story he contributed to some mucky book that I once saw mentioned in Mr Skidmore's esteem'd 'FA' journal back in the day).

If anybody's ever encountered any of these, have they any film potential?

It turns out that the band had no idea what film the venue had nipped down to the local video store for (they'd requested Carry On Camping), and if the vegetarian bass player had turned around at the wrong time, he'd probably have walked offstage. It also made clapping and whooping for a encore during footage of a Cambodian mountain of skulls pretty awkward.

Jesus Christ I am tangent boy today.

my suspicion is that Alan Moore wrote some of the Axel Pressbutton strips for Warrior, while Steve Moore wrote others. I'm basing this on the fact that some of the Axel Pressbutton stories were actually pretty dull (once you'd got over the genius of a bald fucker with a prosthetic body and a meat cleaver instead of a left hand (or was it right hand?)) while some of them were works of comic genius. Given that everything I've ever seen credited to Steve Moore has been pretty turgid, I can't believe that the good stuff was written by him. Also, when Axel Pressbutton was being good it was funny in a manner reminiscent of Alan Moore humour strips.

but I dunno, maybe Steve Moore is actually a comic genius and I've been misjudging him all these years.

hard work? what planet are you on? it's got human sacrifice, talking heads on spikes, dirty judges, a man who travels in suspenders - something for all the family, surely?

Also - THE BOJEFFRIES SAGA!!!! make a gd movie (haha better than the League of pissing Gents flick, anyhoo)

I still say A Small Killing would have the greatest potential for a succesful adaptation: no flashy effects nor a historical setting - no need for big budget nor a major studio backing - less need to compromise. Plus the story could actually attract some decent director instead of a hack. As much as I've enjoyed the recent superhero flicks, I'd say the best comic adaptations of the last few years have been made by indie directors from indie comics (Ghost World, American Splendor, Corto Maltese). Constantine was suprisingly good though.

The contributors are quite scary - here's a link to a gaiman listing site with it on http://members.aol.com/ngaimanvb/neil/knave.html

I got as far as getting a copy with Neil interviewing Alan Moore - Last I saw it lived in the Exeter Univ SF group library. Gaiman said it was very funny back in his Violent Cases days.

Apparently it's the unexpurgated memoirs of a ventriloquist's dummy!

If you ever find a copy a scan would be nice.

Have fun,
Dave

Re: thread title, I would actually argue that a good Watchmen movie could be made (but no studio would be willing to allow a true adaptation to be made when a possible money-making SUPERHERO ACTION FLICK could be mangled out of it).

In short: NO MORE MOORE FILM ADAPTATIONS KTHANXBYE

http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2007/11/27/the-candidates-tv-guide-forgot.aspx

Tom Tancredo watches “nothing in particular. He really likes the History Channel, though,” says spokesman Alan Moore.

sometimes i feel like i'm squarely in obama's target demographic and that bothers me. i'm waiting to read about how stoked he is for the miles davis on the corner sessions before i start ripping out my hair and screaming "get out of my head!"

Seriously, "Bojeffries Saga" by the Coen Brothers.