Don't Have A Cow, Alan Moore - League of Extraordinary Gentlemen coming to FOX

[Teelie]

As a cap for each episode they should have a 10 second clip of Alan Moore raging.

Even better is if he gets redder as he rages depending on the distance it diverges from his original material.

 

[Asgard]

I thought the movie was good. I hope this comes to fruition.

I also hope they use the same effects for Mr Hyde and his transformation for the tv show.

 

[Teelie]

Moore's naturally not a fan.

Me and [co-creator] Kevin [O’Neill] have been chuckling about that one, we only heard about it the other day. When [DC Comics] did the recent Watchmen prequel comics I said all of sorts of deeply offensive things about the modern entertainment industry clearly having no ideas of its own and having to go through dust bins and spittoons in the dead of night to recycle things...

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn’t caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

EW

 

[Lord]

Meh, i think tv shows are mostly safe, when they do a bad adaptations it normally doesn'y go past the pilot episode. When they do a good adaptation it's really good, as shoun by Dexter and Game of Thrones.

I only read Volumes I and II, and loved them, but from a sinopsis on wikipedia i have to ask, what the hell was happening in Volume III? It has Harry Potter and an antichrist that shots magic from his penis
Is it well written or just as bad as the plot leads you to believe? Many of the events seem kinda random.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Not, it's not random or poorly written at all. Volume I & II are basically these Victorian characters teaming up to fight villains. But in between II & III was a standalone GN called The Black Dossier, and in it Moore got more ambitious and started using the League as not just Victorian fiction, but all fiction. In Dossier, for instance, there's the Big Brother government and James Bond (it takes place in the '40s, if I recall correctly).

Volume III runs with that idea. It's in three parts: 1919, 1969, and 2009. Each part takes a lot from the fiction of the time and kind of fuses it all in their singular continuity. It is quite different, though. It's less of a cheeky adventure than the first two volumes and deals a lot more with the characters and how they deal with the changing times.

 

[Lord]

I know it goes past the victorian era, i liked what i saw of the black dossier, but some things just seem a little disrespectful, like Jimmy Bond, and Mary Poppins seems to appear out of nowhere, as i heard many charcters do. From what i heard the cameos kind of start to lose the focus from the main plot.

As for this as a TV show, i just hope they stay close to the comics, they may expand on certain elements and do new stories, but i would really like to see the main plots of Volumes I & 2 unfold and as seasons progresso get to the 50s

 

[Tron Bonne]

I know it goes past the victorian era, i liked what i saw of the black dossier, but some things just seem a little disrespectful, like Jimmy Bond, and Mary Poppins seems to appear out of nowhere, as i heard many charcters do. From what i heard the cameos kind of start to lose the focus from the main plot.

Heh, well, I don't know about disrespectful, but I'm guessing Moore probably used Bond in a way much closer to it's source than any of the films ever did. I don't think he was quite the good guy in those, but I've never actually read them. And Poppins appearance isn't out of nowhere, it's more of a...half deus ex machina.

It does kind of become a bit of "Where's Waldo" with the cameos, though. Or well...I guess I should say it becomes more obvious. The first two volumes have that, too, but they're generally a little more subtle. But I didn't have an issue with it; it all jives with what Moore started to do with the series. I would definitely recommend BD and Vol. III, but I can't stress enough how different it is from the first two arcs. It becomes more character driven and experimental.

 

[Lord]

I never read the books but i heard that in the books Bond wasn't as abusive as Sean Connery's films. Anybody knows if Fox usually does small seasons like 6 episodes? Because i don't see LXG working as a 22 episodes per season show.