Watchmen's Alan Moore in a Rock Opera

Watchmen's Alan Moore in a Rock Opera

Let's see how random this headline can be... "Watchmen's" Alan Moore is in a musical project. A rock and roll opera. A rock and roll opera written by members of the fictional band Gorillaz. Yeah... That works.

By FalconX2 - Nov 12, 2009 03:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Watchmen
Source: NME

Comic book author and legend, Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), is teaming up with Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl, Gorillaz) to help write the libretto for their next rock opera.

Albarn and Hewlett wrote their first opera, Monkey: Journey to the West based on the 16th century Chinese novel, Journey to the West. However, very little has been released on this latest musical endeavor, other than the title, Carousel.

Moore has also expressed interest in Gorillaz being a guest in his latest work, Dodgem Logic.

Needless to say, a random, yet amazing grouping of talent. I am a huge fan of both Gorillaz and Alan Moore, and for me, this team-up is huge!

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CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 4:59 AM
he's one of the best writers in the business, but i hate this pretentious prick
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 11/12/2009, 6:35 AM
I WONDER IF HE WATCHED THE WATCHMEN MOVIE, IT WASN'T THAT BAD..I KNOW HE FELT BURNED B4 FROM OTHER ADAPTIONS..HECK THE WATCHMEN ARTIST LOVED IT.
selinakyle
selinakyle - 11/12/2009, 7:09 AM
Yup...pretentious and hates everything. Sick Genius tho.
FrankGarret
FrankGarret - 11/12/2009, 7:15 AM
He said he loved the animated adaptation of "WSuperman: For the Man who has Everything".

Don't know what everyone is on about calling him pretensious.
FlashThompson
FlashThompson - 11/12/2009, 7:34 AM
Well, he's obviously nuts. Most very creative people are to some degree that's how they have the ability to think outside of the box. Great story teller though. He seems to me like he would be a conspiracy theorist. About how everything that happens in this world are ALL related somehow. I could be wrong.

I do dig this idea though, very different. I usually enjoy the Gorillaz music. If it sucks, then oh well. No Biggie.
Betty
Betty - 11/12/2009, 7:52 AM
This news shivers me timbers. MsKyle, will you marry me? I have a ring. Well, it's a green lantern ring.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 8:00 AM
I wonder if MOORES seen WOLVERINE,wonder what he thinks of that, lmao!!!







GORILLAZ is a amazing band, an luv comics too, good on 'em!!

Yo @ FALCON @ Welcome back bud, great article!! Kudos!

This is gonna be sweet!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 8:01 AM
BETTY @ I'll marry you, if it's a GL RING!!!!?! ; D
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 8:20 AM
Gotta luv FROGMAN!! :P

Hey lol, look in the corner on the right 'WATCHMEN Autographs', lmao i wonder if any are signed by ALAN MOORE lol!

Heh, its just a bit funny seeing that AD right near a photo of him!

It tickled me! ; D
selinakyle
selinakyle - 11/12/2009, 8:21 AM
Is it a real GL ring Betty? :)
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 8:24 AM
If its a real Ring, i'm marrying him!! : D
selinakyle
selinakyle - 11/12/2009, 8:29 AM
back off lee.lol.
Betty
Betty - 11/12/2009, 8:35 AM
MsKyle-- Oh it's real. You HAVE to be the right one or else the ring devours your soul! Leee, I don't swing that way baby! Unless you have lots of money. I'm pretty sure the ring would kill you anyway.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 8:42 AM
@ frank garret

i say that because he shits all over everything. people make movies of his stories, and before they even start production he's saying its going to be an unsuccessful adaptation. like his work is so good that its impossible to make a movie out of. i think v for vendetta and watchmen totally proved that, in the right hands, even his brilliant work can be made into a near perfect movie. but he doesn't even give it a chance.
selinakyle
selinakyle - 11/12/2009, 8:43 AM
so how do i know if im the right one? :(
mgalusick
mgalusick - 11/12/2009, 9:06 AM
Wow Alan Moore wanting to collaborate...?
Betty
Betty - 11/12/2009, 9:08 AM
Just stick in the tip and if it burns don't go in all the way.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 9:22 AM
@ betty

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Shadowelfz
Shadowelfz - 11/12/2009, 9:49 AM
@ frank garret

i say that because he shits all over everything. people make movies of his stories, and before they even start production he's saying its going to be an unsuccessful adaptation. like his work is so good that its impossible to make a movie out of. i think v for vendetta and watchmen totally proved that, in the right hands, even his brilliant work can be made into a near perfect movie. but he doesn't even give it a chance.

Thanks CDB I was just about to say that. I believe he even said that when his pen hit the paper hes god or something to that effect. The defination of pretensious.
fanboiii
fanboiii - 11/12/2009, 9:50 AM
@CorndogBurglar

I find the people who trash Moore as pretentious are really pretentious. They're making a judgment without even trying to know all the sides. How would you feel if movie studios took all your work and made garbage adaptations out of them. But think about it, if Moore was really a jerk, he could have fought hard against studios from ever adapting his work. Instead, he just took the back seat. I'm surprised that people here don't understand Moore's passion for the comic book medium or how bad most of his movie adaptations were. He has the right to not be interested. And, he's not even stopping people from making adaptations or watching movies. So really why are people so offended by his opinions? All he has done was contribute to comics and while letting movie studios adapt his work for profit. Then people attack him after movie studios left him jaded? He tried to work with them at first but now he wants no part. Nothing wrong there.

And by the way, Moore may come off as strange but he's a nice guy.

StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 11/12/2009, 10:15 AM
@ Hush: that sucks.
Morrissey and Moore are absolutely nothing alike except that they are both English and both extremely talented.
selinakyle
selinakyle - 11/12/2009, 10:16 AM
@Betty...perv!
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 11/12/2009, 10:18 AM
@ MsKyle: He can tell your the right one because of your lovely avatar! lol!

Im surprised you even need to ask anyway. A babe that likes comics?!? Now that's a winning combo if ever there was one ;)
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 11/12/2009, 10:22 AM
LOL oh no you di - int!!
man please don't diss the Moz lulz
Betty
Betty - 11/12/2009, 10:47 AM
fanboiii--he seems cool.
Betty
Betty - 11/12/2009, 10:51 AM
MsKyle--I know I know, that was wrong! Here is a big ol' rock, forgive me?

tea--lol!
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 11:02 AM
@ fanboii

so i'm pretentious for having a certain opinion of moore?? and by the way, i don't just make silly observations. i've read many interviews with moore where he explains exactly where he's coming from. i'm not making a baseless opinion. also, moore CAN'T stop his work from being made into movies. he doesn't own the rights to watchmen or v for vendetta in ANY way. not the movie rights, OR the comic rights, OR the character rights, so he can try all he wants, but he has no legal ground to stand on.

i also know that he claims DC "tricked" him into not having the rights to his characters, which is why he broke away from big comic companies in favor of having creator owned properties, and more power to him for that. but my point is, don't say its impossible to adapt his work, when it clearly is NOT. especially when you don't even know what's going on with a certain project. if he had some kind of insider informations saying they were F'in up his stories, then fine, but that is NOT the case with V or Watchmen, yet he shunned them before pre-production even started. and if you've see V or Watchmen, then you know that no message, plot points, or characterizations were changed in ANY way. those are VERY successful adaptations. but how would he know? he never even gave them a chance. i will give him credit for not taking any liberties from the film's earnings though.
InSpace
InSpace - 11/12/2009, 11:33 AM
Awwww...I thought Watchmen was getting a rock opera.

LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 11:41 AM
BETTY @ I don't either!!! Thats TEA'S job!!! ; D

Lol @ InSpace!!
LexLuthor
LexLuthor - 11/12/2009, 11:48 AM
@Corndog

V for Vendetta was changed a bit. I won't go into it, but they kinda took out the anarchism themes and made the government characters one-sided, there was no moral ambiguity.
selinakyle
selinakyle - 11/12/2009, 12:19 PM
lol...Betty..im gonna have to think about it.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 11/12/2009, 12:20 PM
Alan Moore is a miserable, crotchety old bastard who trains snakes to steal children so he can bathe in their tears. He also wears dragon tooth necklaces and worships the scrotum of the horned God.

He's also one of the greatest writers of the century.
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 11/12/2009, 12:41 PM
lol @ Ror: That was creative
selinakyle
selinakyle - 11/12/2009, 12:53 PM
one man's meat keven. ;)
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 1:33 PM
@ ror

no doubting that! he IS a great writer.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 1:36 PM
@ lex

yeah, things were changed in V, but the point of the story was still there, and the anarchist side of things was there as well, it was plain to see. maybe not in great depth like the book, but they were definately there. my point is, the things that matter were all intact.
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