The director is best known for dark, incredibly violent films like 300 and The Watchmen.
He and the other writers are writing the Watchmen prequels because they want to.
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After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told.
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"I started out by building relationships with the watchmen, " he recalls.
The same goes for the knee-jerk denunciations of the Watchmen prequels, too, or the knee-jerk hatred of the film adaptations of his work, for that matter.
So the original Watchmen was itself written as precisely the sort of revisiting and collaborative storytelling to update older characters that DiDio and Lee are talking about.
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But Moore (who also wrote the brilliant Watchmen in 1986) is pleased that they did.
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And beside me was Len Wein, who was involved with the original Watchmen books.
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The original series of WATCHMEN is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell.
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It is has always been to the Jewish watchmen, ever vigilant, to whom we have owed our lives, and our survival as a people.
Comic fans recognize Cooke from his past success in the superhero genre, putting his own creative spin on icons like Batman, Catwoman, The Spirit and Watchmen.
Snyder, who also directed the superhero film "Watchmen, " said he wanted to find a poignancy to add to the familiar story.
He may have been faithful to the graphic novel as he was able, but he hopes that the film will strike the balance between satisfying the obsessive hordes of "Watchmen" fans and being accessible to people who have not heard of the graphic novel.
These books will be based on characters developed by Alan Moore in Watchmen, the 1986 graphic novel that became the standard by which all other graphic novels are now judged.
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Alan Moore is one of my favorite comic book writers, and his wild, arcane imagination has given us some wonderful series, such as From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen, which were adapted to the big screen.
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The few that are employed are office messengers, watchmen and others who work as casuals in the hotels and businesses.
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In March 1990 two men posing as Boston police officers entered the museum in the middle of the night and tied up two watchmen.
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Despite Snyder's hopes that "Watchmen" will have the same electrifying effect on fans new and old, he is determined that there will only be one movie.
So was it Moore who saw "Watchmen" end up in the courts for a case that risked scuppering its release?
While listening to your comments about night-watchmen, I was wondering what is the highest score made in a Test by a night-watchman?
Voice playback (and, therefore, Whispersync for Voice) are unsupported and we got an error whenever we tried to open a comic, and what's the point of having such a nice display if you can't read Watchmen?
But key will be whether Snyder can match "Watchmen's" dramatic beats against its green-screen chicanery for more than two hours (the Internet Movie Database lists the running time at 163 minutes).
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