DC Sucks. Even Moore knows it.
May. 25th, 2005 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAlan Moore, co-creator of the "V For Vendetta" comic, has publicly disassociated himself from the upcoming Warner Brothers movie project based on the comic book and written and produced by the Wachowski Brothers. And as a result, he has cut his remaining ties with DC Comics, including future volumes of the "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen."
"It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed."
What Moore found most laughable however were the details. "They don't know what British people have for breakfast, they couldn't be bothered. 'Eggy in a basket' apparently. Now the US have 'eggs in a basket,' whish is fried bread with a fried egg in a hole in the middle. I guess they thought we must eat that as well, and thought 'eggy in a basket' was a quaint and Olde Worlde version."
Moore is also upset about the advertising - he refuses to have anything to do with movies made from his work. He will not sell the rights to his work if he owns them, and he will not accept money from movies based on his work, or having his name on films based on his work. When Joel Silver announced that the release day of "V For Vendetta" was the hundredth anniversary of Guy Fawkes attempt on Parliament alongside a message that Moore was "very excited" about the film, Moore demanded that Warner Brother issue an equally public statement to restract these "blatant lies - that's the phrase I'm groping for."
Moore speaking of an upcoming League sideproject: "not my best comic ever, not the best comic ever, but the best thing ever. Better than the Roman civilisation, penicillin..." The human brain? "Yes and the human nervous system. Better than creation. Better than the big bang. It's quite good."
"It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed."
What Moore found most laughable however were the details. "They don't know what British people have for breakfast, they couldn't be bothered. 'Eggy in a basket' apparently. Now the US have 'eggs in a basket,' whish is fried bread with a fried egg in a hole in the middle. I guess they thought we must eat that as well, and thought 'eggy in a basket' was a quaint and Olde Worlde version."
Moore is also upset about the advertising - he refuses to have anything to do with movies made from his work. He will not sell the rights to his work if he owns them, and he will not accept money from movies based on his work, or having his name on films based on his work. When Joel Silver announced that the release day of "V For Vendetta" was the hundredth anniversary of Guy Fawkes attempt on Parliament alongside a message that Moore was "very excited" about the film, Moore demanded that Warner Brother issue an equally public statement to restract these "blatant lies - that's the phrase I'm groping for."
Moore speaking of an upcoming League sideproject: "not my best comic ever, not the best comic ever, but the best thing ever. Better than the Roman civilisation, penicillin..." The human brain? "Yes and the human nervous system. Better than creation. Better than the big bang. It's quite good."
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Date: 2005-05-25 01:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-25 01:57 pm (UTC)Though I was just a Canadian living in Britain.
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Date: 2005-05-25 03:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-25 01:57 pm (UTC)Hint, people: 1605 was not 100 years ago.
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Date: 2005-05-25 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-25 07:33 pm (UTC)