A Watchmen Opera?!!?

[MaskedManJRK]

Okay, I was looking through a Wikipedia article on David Bowie (just started getting into him) and I noticed on one of the facts that, according to Darren Aronofsky in an interview concerning The Fountain, he says:

"The funny thing is that when I went to meet Bowie, one of the first things he said was, 'Oh, are you doing Watchmen?' It turned out that he was developing an opera out of Watchmen. I was like, 'If I do this film and I **** it up, I'm going to piss David Bowie off.'"

A Watchmen opera written by David Bowie? Has anyone else heard anything more recent about this? What do you guys think if it does get off the ground?

 

[Katsuro]

David Bowie and Watchmen in the same sentence is ALWAYS a good thing.

 

[dpm07]

I like David Bowie, and I like The Watchmen, but I don't want to see a film on-screen with The Watchmen as an opera.

If they want to do an opera of The Watchmen, and have it independent of a film and do it on broadway or something, that's fine. I just don't really want to see The Watchmen made into a musical ala Moulin Rouge for the big screen.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

I like David Bowie, and I like The Watchmen, but I don't want to see a film on-screen with The Watchmen as an opera.

If they want to do an opera of The Watchmen, and have it independent of a film and do it on broadway or something, that's fine. I just don't really want to see The Watchmen made into a musical ala Moulin Rouge for the big screen.

Yeah, I'm sure it's going to be on-stage, rather than film, I just couldn't think of a better place to put the thread.

 

[Katsuro]

I like David Bowie, and I like The Watchmen, but I don't want to see a film on-screen with The Watchmen as an opera.

If they want to do an opera of The Watchmen, and have it independent of a film and do it on broadway or something, that's fine. I just don't really want to see The Watchmen made into a musical ala Moulin Rouge for the big screen.

lol, I dont think that's what this is about. There's no talk of making the Watchmen films a musical here, at all.

Whatever David Bowie is doing with a Watchmen opera has nothing to do with the then-Aronofsky now-Snyder-directed Watchmen film.

 

[CrimsonMist]

i heard it was going to be a concept album ROCK Opera, but that was awhile ago. But whatever. Bowie doing something with Watchmen is pretty cool.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

bump for the move

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Wow. That's a whacky-ass concept.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Wow. That's a whacky-ass concept.

Indeed--but it's Bowie, so it should be good.

 

[CARNAGE-COMETH]

You know as strange as it sounds I think an "Opera" of Watchmen would work better then the way I feel about a movie version.

I say that because I still believe it's going to be impossible for any director/studio to make a deserving adaptation of the Watchmen Novel.

I think an opera or play of Watchmen would have more of a chance to show the sub plots and little characters who are really the human side of the story better then a 2 hour film.

I keep saying that the novel is so layered and deep that its almost cruel to expect Zack Snyder to do it justice in a movie version.

I think the movie is in good hands with Zack but nothing in my mind could top reading the graphic novel.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Bowie as Doctor Manhattan!
He's used on being on Mars.

 

[Mister Sinister]

"Take a look at the WATCHMEN!"

 

[adam-red]

I went to see an opera over here recently based on the Monkey TV series. It was done by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett (The Gorillaz) - it should be going to Paris, then Moscow, then New York soon. I wasn't too sure about it at first but they managed to make it work, but I'm not sure about Bono's Batman musical

 

[Rorschach2012]

David Bowie? Watchmen?

 

[Changeling]

awesomeneWS

 

[Jon Osterman]

they could easily screw it up though