Shouldn't Warner Brothers be entitled to the spoils - if any -- of the risk they took in supporting and making Watchmen? Should Fox have any claim on something they could have had but chose to neither support nor show any interest in?
Shouldn't Alan Moore be entitled some control over a story that is only in Warner bros hands due to a contract that was deceptive at least and immoral at worst
Look at it another way... One reason the movie was made was because Warner Brothers spent the time, effort and money to engage with and develop the project. If Watchmen was at Fox the decision to make the movie would never have been made because there was no interest in moving forward with the project.
Oh so I guess that allows you to simply take something that someone else paid for, that's like me saying I'm going to steal one of Jay Leno's cars because "he's not using it, it just sits in his garage" the point is if they paid for it it's theirs to do what they wish.
Does a film studio have the right to stand in the way of an artistic endeavor and determine that it shouldn't exist?
DC does this all the time. Oh but they aren't a movie studio so this don't count (come on)
If the project had been sequestered at Fox, if Fox had any say in the matter, Watchmen simply wouldn't exist today, and there would be no film for Fox to lay claim on. It seems beyond cynical for the studio to claim ownership at this point.
They aren't claiming ownership of anything but the rights, which you used to make the film, the film isn't theirs but an irreplaceable piece of it (that you used) was so they are entitled to compensation
By his own admission, Judge Feess is faced with an extremely complex legal case, with a contradictory contractual history, making it difficult to ascertain what is legally right. Are there circumstances here that are more meaningful, which shed light on what is ultimately just, to be taken into account when assessing who is right? In this case, what is morally right, beyond the minutiae of decades-old contractual semantics, seems clear cut.
DON'T EVEN try to talk about whats morally right after your company punisher Moore simply because he put out something extraordinary. What is right is clear cut: Watchmen goes OOP, Moore gets the rights, and you get jack
For the sake of the artists involved, for the hundreds of people, executives and filmmakers, actors and crew, who invested their time, their money, and dedicated a good portion of their lives in order to bring this extraordinary project to life, the question of what is right is clear and unambiguous - Fox should stand down with its claim.
Lloyd Levin
Once again a company who treated its greatest talent like this has NO RIGHT to try and tell an equally evil company that they should be different.
"Pot, thou art Black" said the Kettle
The only reason he made this is because he knows people want to see this movie and wants to stir the fan boy backlash against fox, this has no use as a letter that's closed so its open, but just comes off as a producer blog made by money grubbing *****es
I think that the magick spell Moore way joking about might be real, because it seems that the WB is having the same problems Moore had. the tables have turned, how does it feel WB, to be on the ****** end of the stick? not so fun eh?
Lloyd Levin: you are either extremely ignorant of the history of this story and its many legal problems, or you are simply another caricature of a hollywood producer: powered by only one thing: Avarice
