Co Creator. He didn't come up with the watchmen he was just the artist. Alan Moore is also the Creator of the Watchmen please Scifi stop being moronic when you post your blogs.

Malachi, who are you? Alan Moore? Gibbons was the artist behind the graphic novel, responsible for creating that whole world. Also, Gibbons helped Synder develop the film and actually drew the story boards for the last scenes in the movie. I'd say it's safe to label him as a 'creator'.

Yeah but Alan Moore is an idiot who made a bad deal with DC over a lot of his comics years ago and is now bitter and cynical.

"League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"...I'd be bitter too.

I agree LXG was terrible, but he refused to even take part in the production of it. And I think his blasting of V for Vendetta and From Hell were over the top. From Hell was not that great but V was not entirely bad. Again according to all the producers of those movies they asked Alan to come and talk to them and read the scripts and he refused because he is a pompous ass that has bought into his own hype was to much.

He is just bitter because he signed a contract with DC that basically said he would gain the rights once they stop publishing it. Which is stupid as hell. If you thought your work was a great timeless piece of art then you should expect that it might never go out of print in your lifetime. He took the easy money early on and now he feels like he is being shafted because DC keeps publishing his brilliant works. Sucks to be him, I am sure he is ripping up all his royalty checks for all the copies of Watchmen that are being sold before the movie comes out.

Its really not anyones place to judge Alan or Gibbons on this, just take a look at watchmen and realize that the novel is a work of genius beyond mostly anything else out there. So applying your baseless logic to the sliver of leaked knowledge that may have been gleaned is nothing to base any sort of legitimate perception on. Alan & Dave are the messiah's of satire and we should respect that and not try to debase their reputations through spineless blogs

I think people calling Alan Moore a messiah of anything is part of the reason he thinks his shit don't stink. He's a good writer, or at least was. I am just commenting on his baseless attack of this movie without seeing it. He wrote it off long before the first reel was even in the can. I am sorry if I was critical of your messiah...of satire.

The characters from 'The Watchmen' were actually based off of Charlton Comic characters that DC got rights to in the 1980's. Dr. Manhatten was Captain Atom, Rorschach was the Question, Nite-Owl was Blue Beetle, Silk Spectre was Nightshade, the Comedian was Peacemaker and Ozymandias was Thunderbolt.
Moore came up with these altered characters once DC wouldn't let him use them in the mini-series he had planned. Since then DC has incorporated several of those characters into their standard universe.
Alan Moore has written some amazing comics over the past 30 years. I can understand why he would be bitter especially after seeing several adaptations of his comics into movies (which have already been talked about).
That being said, I still want to see the movie and I do think that Snyder has done a lot to keep the movie faithful to the original source material. Even if the movie isn't that great there is always the graphic novel to go back to.

Man you guys are a bunch of geeks. It's a comic book for Christ's sake.

Actually, he does rip up his royalty checks, or he sends them to Dave Gibbons or whomever the artist is who worked with him on the project.

Signing off rights until cessation of publication was standard practice back in the eighties. Watchmen is the first comic to never cease publication. I don't even think that trade paperbacks had been thought of yet, so Watchmen being gathered in one volume and published as a graphic novel wasn't dealt with in the original contract, I'd be pissed too.

Besides all that too, I don't think any of the Moore adaptations have been worth a darn. V for Vendetta was my least favorite since V was my favorite book. I recognize that LXG was a worse movie, but I was much more disappointed in the gutting of the source material to make V. Moore's complaints with movies based on his work is that people will think the movies are indicative of his work. If you saw LXG and thought everything Moore wrote was that bad, why would you give Watchmen a shot?

Really, this is all conjecture, unless you were in the boardroom with the creator themselves.

Perhaps all the above movies weren't done the best they could've been - but rarely do we actually get to see the inner workings of how a creator in comics or movies thinks.

Alan Moore has already spoken his peace; I respect that.
I respect Gibbons much more, for trying to help FORM, and create his vision of 'Watchmen' into what is close as possible to what he dreamt.

Only the dreamers can say; many comic creators have been burned, and some are gone, some gone mad. Bless the dreamers, for they walk a path different from the majority, and we as a whole, either hate them or love them.

I thought LXG was awesome and all of you who didn't see it that way are idiots and need two new hemispheres in that zit on your shoulders you call a head.

I think Alan Moore is being a bit harsh, sure, but I can see his perspective somewhat in context of "why take my work that I am so proud of and 'make' it yours?" I think he would be more open to a movie that is completely original, yet inspired by his work. For instance, what made Watchmen such a benchmark was that it was a paradigm shift for the way we look at superheroes. If someone was able to "redefine" the superhero movie genre with a really imaginative take, I think Moore might respect that ...well...more.

Honestly, Ive read lots of Alan Moore stuff, and in my humble opinion, I think he is over rated. It seems to me that he has taken concepts already in literature and merely integrated them in the comic world. He has great concepts, but I dont think that makes him so awesome. He seems to me the typical whiny artist, worried more about his work that he didnt think about the point of a writer: so people enjoy his stories

Don't make a big debate out of it. What's important is, they produced a must -see movie that had helped ill people to unwind and enjoy what life could offer.