Solario
05-23-2005, 09:19 PM
After a brief excitement concerning V for Vendetta, I now only hold utter rage and disappointment.
"Earlier in the year, Moore received a call from "V For Vendetta" writer/producer and "Matrix" director Larry Wachowski, but told him politely, "I didn't want anything to do with films and had no time this year, being in the middle of work, my day job, writing, I wasn't interested in Hollywood."
Shortly afterwards, Alan Moore was made aware of a press release sent out covering a press conference producer Joel Silver and the cast had held.
In this press release, Joel Silver, as well as announcing that the release date November the 5th 2005 was the 100th anniversary of Guy Fawkes attempt on Parliament, instead of the 400th anniversary, also said of Alan, "he was very excited about what Larry had to say and Larry sent the script, so we hope to see him sometime before we're in the UK. We'd just like him to know what we're doing and to be involved in what we're trying to do together"
Alan felt, basically, that his name was being used in vain. Not only had he expressed the opposite to Larry, but his endorsement was being used as a selling point for a movie - the reason he'd requested his credit and association be dropped from all of these movies.
Alan, through Wildstorm editor Scott Dunbier, instructed DC/Warner Brothers to issue a retraction against these "blatant lies - that's the phrase I'm groping for." He called Scott up and told him that he was "Nineteen pages away from finishing all my contracted work" for ABC/Wildstorm/DC Comics - three pages on the "League," sixteen on "Tom Strong."
Moore requested a retraction, a clarification and a modest apology, posted in a forum with a similar weight to the original press release. Moore says he'd have been happy with something along the lines of "Due to a misunderstanding, Alan Moore does not wish to be associated with the 'V For Vendetta' movie." Moore gave DC two weeks to rectify the matter as he saw it. I understand from DC sources that Paul Levitz tried personally to illicit an apology from Joel Silver without joy and that at a corporate level, there was no possibility of issuing a corporate apology with such a similar weight as the original press release, though Silver's words were removed from the movie's Web site.
It wasn't enough. So after two weeks, Alan Moore did as he said. Moore's last remaining "League" for DC is all but completed and due this year."
- Article on Comic Book Resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13)
**** you, DC.
For this will be the day of the unveiling of The Wachowski brothers' rape of V for Vendetta. They are supposedly the directors for the movie adaption of it. The teaser poster can be found here (http://superherohype.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=V_For_Vendetta&image=v1.jpg&img=&tt=), notice how much of an effort they have put into not even f*cking mentioning Alan Moore.
Their script apparently is a caricature of the graphic novel and it seems to have become an action movie and not a philosophy/political movie.
If they screw this up, I'm blowing up their houses on the 5th of November as a one fingered salute.
Remember, Remember the 5th of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why this gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
"Earlier in the year, Moore received a call from "V For Vendetta" writer/producer and "Matrix" director Larry Wachowski, but told him politely, "I didn't want anything to do with films and had no time this year, being in the middle of work, my day job, writing, I wasn't interested in Hollywood."
Shortly afterwards, Alan Moore was made aware of a press release sent out covering a press conference producer Joel Silver and the cast had held.
In this press release, Joel Silver, as well as announcing that the release date November the 5th 2005 was the 100th anniversary of Guy Fawkes attempt on Parliament, instead of the 400th anniversary, also said of Alan, "he was very excited about what Larry had to say and Larry sent the script, so we hope to see him sometime before we're in the UK. We'd just like him to know what we're doing and to be involved in what we're trying to do together"
Alan felt, basically, that his name was being used in vain. Not only had he expressed the opposite to Larry, but his endorsement was being used as a selling point for a movie - the reason he'd requested his credit and association be dropped from all of these movies.
Alan, through Wildstorm editor Scott Dunbier, instructed DC/Warner Brothers to issue a retraction against these "blatant lies - that's the phrase I'm groping for." He called Scott up and told him that he was "Nineteen pages away from finishing all my contracted work" for ABC/Wildstorm/DC Comics - three pages on the "League," sixteen on "Tom Strong."
Moore requested a retraction, a clarification and a modest apology, posted in a forum with a similar weight to the original press release. Moore says he'd have been happy with something along the lines of "Due to a misunderstanding, Alan Moore does not wish to be associated with the 'V For Vendetta' movie." Moore gave DC two weeks to rectify the matter as he saw it. I understand from DC sources that Paul Levitz tried personally to illicit an apology from Joel Silver without joy and that at a corporate level, there was no possibility of issuing a corporate apology with such a similar weight as the original press release, though Silver's words were removed from the movie's Web site.
It wasn't enough. So after two weeks, Alan Moore did as he said. Moore's last remaining "League" for DC is all but completed and due this year."
- Article on Comic Book Resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13)
**** you, DC.
For this will be the day of the unveiling of The Wachowski brothers' rape of V for Vendetta. They are supposedly the directors for the movie adaption of it. The teaser poster can be found here (http://superherohype.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=V_For_Vendetta&image=v1.jpg&img=&tt=), notice how much of an effort they have put into not even f*cking mentioning Alan Moore.
Their script apparently is a caricature of the graphic novel and it seems to have become an action movie and not a philosophy/political movie.
If they screw this up, I'm blowing up their houses on the 5th of November as a one fingered salute.
Remember, Remember the 5th of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why this gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.