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Over at Plurk, Jomz had shared how Alan Moore’s hate for his books being turned into film is affecting his “expectation-build-up.” I’m sure several of you feel the same way.

In an interview with Variety’s Danny Graydon during Warner Bros.’s first possession of feature film rights for Watchmen, the comic book’s writer Alan Moore adamantly opposed a film adaptation of his comic book, arguing, “You get people saying, ‘Oh, yes, Watchmen is very cinematic,’ when actually it’s not. It’s almost the exact opposite of cinematic.” Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmen for Warner Bros. at the time, had asked Moore how the writer would film it. Moore told Graydon about his response, “I had to tell him that, frankly, I didn’t think it was filmable. I didn’t design it to show off the similarities between cinema and comics, which are there, but in my opinion are fairly unremarkable. It was designed to show off the things that comics could do that cinema and literature couldn’t.” Source

And while I do understand, coming from someone who writes, that not everything fiction can be made by Hollywood, as a fan of the comic book, I can’t help but really want to see it made into a movie. I guess it is not based on the fact that Hollywood would suck at this, but rather just viewing it as a totally different thing. An adaption per se.

The movie is scheduled for release on March 6, 2009. For those who have fast Internetz, head over to Apple for higher resolutions and better quality.