YEEEHAAA things that should DEFINITELY be made into films

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Me I want want want Alan Moore's 'WATCHMEN' comic series to be made as long as they DON'T BUGGER ABOUT WITH IT:

Rorschach - Brad Dourif
Dr. Manhattan - CGI
The Comedian - Sam Elliot

Other casting?

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Niteowl 1 / Hollis Mason - Orson Bean
Niteowl 2 / Dan Dreiberg - (slim) Philip Seymour Hoffman

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That said I dread Alan Moore cinematic adaptations - dread dread dread the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - TOM SAWYER ?!!!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ME AND ALAN MCGEE

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Watchmen would be a terrible film.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

still even terrible wd be an improvement on the COMIC eh? eh??

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s = art spiegelman?

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of Alan Moore adaptations, whatever happened to the "V for Vendetta" movie to be made by the Wachowski brothers?

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i do not want watchmen film. i do not really want the League o E Gentlemen film, but there you go.

Someone should do like a teen adaptation of a shakespeare story or something.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, unless a policy of advertising or of hijacking other threads has been introduced, what is that link doing there....

PSHoffman as Niteowl 2 = OTM

Pete is that 'cos you hate the whole thing, or just don't think it would translate well? Do you think it would have to shorten/simplify the plot, or that there's too much time/scene swapping and too little action etc? (You may well be right - I just really wanna SEE the thing.)

mark if I pitched it to you as a musical would that help....no maybe not. Anything *you* would like to see adapted?

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't someone once do 'halo jones' as a play?

yes:
http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/bib/film.html

how did we ever find anything before google?

andy

― koogs, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm taking 2001: The Musical to Edinburgh next year.

And leaving it there.

Watchmen is over-rated as a graphic novel, but as much as I like its over-ratedness it has too many characters, too many cliffhanger beats, its plot would demand much simplification removing perhaps its only saving grace (a degree of complexity was its saving grace after all). And blue men look sill, not scary.

The Borribles would be an ace movie though.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

A Watchman film would have some great sequences (Opening, Mars, Antarctic bit) but would probably be confused and end up disappointing everyone. Leave it on the page!
I love the idea of V for Vendetta film though - never heard that it was a possibility.

Other TTSDBMIF - The Man who was Thursday - it's been suggested on ILE before and it would be fantastic!

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

haha how did i know that watchmen would feature prominently in this thread before i even got here?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Because you have PSYCHIC POWAHS

tell me about some other stuff then - I'm off to google Man Thursday...

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm making a movie of richard meltzer's "aesthetics of rock".

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got 229 hours of footage that I've been unsucessfully trying to cut into a coherent version of Beckett's trilogy of novels.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Sterling that may be the most impossible thing - though some Postmodern classics like Perec's A Void or Abish's Alphabetical Africa don't have any clear cinematic analogues that I can imagine.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A Void = don't use black

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

'ME AND ALAN MCGEE'

Duuuhhhhhhh.....you meant that encounter/mixed up story on the thread should be a film right duhhhhh........

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

one of jeanette winterson's novels...say "written on the body" with tilda swinton somewhere prominent. (a match made in heaven ?)

mccarthy's "blood merridian", heard tommy lee jones means to try it.

wendy walker's "the secret service", prolly handle by pixar and tim burton.

usagi yojimbo as a saturday morning cartoon.

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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