Alan Moore was on HARDtalk today

[SimonG]

Just caught a glimpse of the great man on the News Channel; iPlayer link (UK Only.), haven't had time to watch it myself.

[Saul Iscariot]

He is appearing here:

http://www.comicconventions.co.uk/in...uests-revealed

I've known about this for quite a while but sworn to secrecy.

[kevinj]

saw this on the last day it was on catchup, quite a good interview, he treated him not as a god or treat him as just a comic writer, some interesting things came out for example that he sold the movie rights on the basis that they would never be made so he really shouldn't complain when the movies do come out.
worth watching.

[darkman]

Originally Posted by kevinj

saw this on the last day it was on catchup, quite a good interview, he treated him not as a god or treat him as just a comic writer, some interesting things came out for example that he sold the movie rights on the basis that they would never be made so he really shouldn't complain when the movies do come out.
worth watching.

To my recollection he hasn't complained about his comics being made into movies but how he has been treated in the process. Take LXG for example (the only movie based on his comics where he's credited), DC and Moore was sued over it and Moore expected DC to back him up but instead they settled it out of court. Moore was also happy to stay silent about V for Vendetta until Joel Silver lied and said that he was very enthusiastic about the adaption. Otherwise he doesn't seem to complain about the adaptions:

Originally Posted by Alan Moore

The Hughes brothers are excellent directors, and the actors and actresses in the film are all ones that I've got a lot of time for. I think that it'll probably be a very, very good film. It won't be my book, and I kind of understood that from the beginning. I mean, From Hell takes about five hours to read. Even with some serious editing, you've got to take out about three-fifths of the book before you've got it down to something like film length, and the three-fifths that'll be taken out will obviously be a lot of the stuff that I was most interested in: the strange architectural ruminations, or the sort of ponderings upon history and mythology and geography. But that's not really going to play in Poughkeepsie, and it really wouldn't work for a Hollywood movie. So I accept and acknowledge that it's obviously going to have to be very different, but I'm sure it'll be a good film. What I'm hoping for is a situation like, say, the one with Philip K. Dick's short story, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? It was a very, very good short story, and the film Blade Runner was a very good film which didn't necessarily have a great deal of connection with Dick's story. But both were successful entities in their own right. I think that's the kind of position that I have to take with the film. Visually, it looks spectacular. The sets are remarkable, and from what I can tell with the trailer, it's probably going to be a lot more exciting than the book, more thrilling.

[Happy-Hangman]

Pity the end result was shit, then.

[CASTLE]

I thought in the end it was a slightly down beat interview from a past master coming across as slightly bitter but still very articulate .....