V For Vendetta creator Alan Moore is desperate to be disassociated from the screen adaptation of his classic comic strip - and is begging the producers not to credit him for his work. The cartoonist, who also conceived From Hell and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, hates seeing his work diluted by movie-makers, and refuses to put his name to the result. He says, "I want them to say, 'We're not going to give you any money for your work, you're not going to get any credit for it and we're not going to put your name on it.' To see a line of dialogue or a character that I have poured that much emotional involvement into, to see them casually travestied and watered down and distorted... it's kind of painful. It's much better just to avoid them altogether."
I hope nothing like this happens to Freeborn. It will be very disappointing to see all of what we wanted in a werewolf get push aside.
Heh...I don't see why he's so pissed. Irregardless of whether the characters and themes completely and totally conform to what he set forth in his comic, Vendetta is an AMAZINGLY AWESOME movie. Many other comic book authors would be thrilled to have their stories made into crappy movies, and here this guy is mad because the directors made his comic into an awesome one? Pshah. As far as I can tell, Vendetta is a much better movie than some of the recent comic-to-film adaptations.
That's one thing that annoys me about some of these artsy people. Now, I'm somewhat of an artist myself, though I haven't done anything in a long time, but I've realized one thing that a massive number of artsy people haven't. ART IS FOR PEOPLE. NOT JUST FOR THE CREATOR OF THE ART.
Yeah, I was going to boycott this film until I checked it out on Yahoo!Movies. Now I'm halfway on it. Stephen Rea, Hugo Weaving, John Hurt, Joel Silverman, Los Hermanos Wachowski...they're good. They're all catchable. Throw them into a dystopian soup and you got my attention.
And refusing royalties? Sounds like another case of film industry primadonnaism to me.
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Sounds like another case of film industry primadonnaism to me.
