Comments on: Joel Silver Says Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ A “Slave” To Comic, Terry Gilliam’s Version Had No Dr. Manhattan

By: joe

joe — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

snyder made the best watchmen imaginable on screen… the writer of this article and silver/gilliam are retarded tot hink it is unfilmable

wtf? "hey you're just like in the comic!"

THAT'S smart? hahah what the hell that's way to literal, on the nose etc…

the point of making a comic book movie is to bring the COMIC BOOK to life as best as possible… not to beat and mangle it into something else entirely

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

Wow I'm kind of glad that Joel Silver and Terry Gilliam didn't get their version made. Their version kind of misses the point in my mind. Personally, I really enjoyed Zack Snyder's version. If he made it any less faithful then the purists would be disappointed. In fact some purists were mad enough as it was that he took out the whole squid monster element. However making it faithful apparently disappointed the non purists. So it is a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation. The movie wasn't perfect but I felt that it took risks that most comic book adaptions are too afraid to.

By: Louis Tayler

Louis Tayler — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

they should just make a remake of the flim and see if its any good

By: BradRz

BradRz — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

At the time (late eighties/early nineties), Moore had given his blessing to Gilliam's take on the project.

By: charles

charles — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

how can your last question be is it unfilmable when it's already been filmed? Is it unfilmable? No, we all saw a version of it. They filmed it. It went to theaters and made money. Maybe it wasn't a masterpiece but it was filmed/filmableâ¦obviouslyâ¦â¦.

By: Knut Barnes

Knut Barnes — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

Silver's "V" adaptation was pure garbage. It was proof that no one associated with this movie understood the graphic novel. A few nice sequences lost somewhere in just another boring, dumbed-down "Neo/Matrix" style superhero story. The graphic novel wasn't just that. It was much more complex.

By: WadetheFarmer

WadetheFarmer — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

I just don't understand how you can be too faithful to the comic. I don't understand how you adapt the story of Watchmen any better than Snyder's version. They didn't have all of years of issues of stories and lore to pull from like Spider-man or Batman or Avengers. There are twelve issues that tells one story and that's it. Without butchering the story, you really have no way of taking liberties with it. Zach Snyder is nowhere near a great director, but I think he and the team on that movie did the best adaptation you can ask for. Damned if you do, damned if you don't I guess.

By: Mister D

Mister D — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

I like the film, but get why others don't. It is an adaptation of the comic, and for that I think it is well done. Difficult tightrope to walk, especially with something so beloved. I don't think there was a way to win fight, and history will have to be the judge.

As for Gilliam's, the ending probably is more clever than Alan Moore's Outer Limits ending, but the gut punch of Moore's ending is what makes the book stick go beyond its post-modern look at super heroes. We get a villain, who does something villainous, and the heroes have to basically suck it up. Changing that to (what sounds like) a happy ending would not have worked for me.

By: coy

coy — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

I don't get the dislike of this movie. There are a couple casting snafus but that movie is peppered with brilliance. Tell me the intro/credits, the funeral set to Sound of Silence, and the whole Manhattan origin aren't beautiful.

By: jimmiescoffee

jimmiescoffee — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

i dont think snyder is a great director. not even good. but i think 'watchmen' was very well made stuff and gets a bad rap. underrated.

By: KIJ

KIJ — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

Snyder's Watchmen was brilliant!

By: brou

brou — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

Joel Silver talks about Sam Hamm script, which can easily be found on the web (just google Sam Hamm watchmen or Sam Hamm watchmen pdf). We don't know what Gilliam (who, by the way, met Alan Moore) and McKeown take on Watchmen would have been… Basically because they didn't manage to write a screenplay they'd find good enough and left the project.

By: George Y.

George Y. — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

Watchmen is not unfilmable…it has been done…and it is incredible.!!!!

By: cattt

cattt — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:02:27 +0000

Gilliam should've just changed the title & characters' names and direct that script. It has very little to do with Watchmen, but sounds like a good film.