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Apparently they're keeping the pirate stuff in there.
Mm. Well that would have been the first thing to go, if it was up to me. I was never too sure about the point of it in the series, given the amount of space it filled up; the thing about Alan Moore is that he can go on a bit - if you're going to adapt his work successfully for the cinema then you have to edit it ruthlessly, I'd have thought. Which doesn't seem like an imposssible task. 'V For Vendetta' was ... well it was only all right, but that was largely because the Matrix brothers seemed to be into the idea of, hopelessly, adding their own ideas. Had they just left the basic plot, key speeches and so on, as were, and cut down on the back story, it would have worked.
'From Hell' is unfilmable, but I'm not sure if 'Watchmen' necessarily is. It needs a certain amount of money thrown at it, but then that's hardly unreasonable in the current climate; all you'd have to do is focus on the main players. As far as possible, I'd get rid of the Fifties characters, the Comedian and the Silk Spectre excepted, which wouldn't be that hard, they could be black ops figures in the Vietnam war, or whatever; the 'ordinary people' would be the next thing to go - they were tiring in the original, they'd be worse on the screen, and after a certain amount of tidying up with regard to the alien bomb, and the artistes involved (again, this could be cut down, dramatically), you'd be left with a perfectly decent script for a two to three hour film.
Which, with good actors, the right marketing and director, and the correct sensibility, could quite conceivably be this generation's 'Apocolypse Now'.
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