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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.
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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60 Comments

he's one of the best writers in the business, but i hate this pretentious prick
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 4:59 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.
GUNSMITH - 11/12/2009, 6:35 AM
Alan Moore hates everything. He should work with Morrisey instead.
hush - 11/12/2009, 7:07 AM
Yup...pretentious and hates everything. Sick Genius tho.
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 7:09 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.
Frank Garret - 11/12/2009, 7:15 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.
FlashThompson - 11/12/2009, 7:34 AM
This news shivers me timbers. MsKyle, will you marry me? I have a ring. Well, it's a green lantern ring.
Betty - 11/12/2009, 7:52 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 - 11/12/2009, 8:00 AM
BETTY @ I'll marry you, if it's a GL RING!!!!?! ; D
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 8:01 AM
This is the greatest Team-Up since Spiderman and Frogman :P
teabag - 11/12/2009, 8:05 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
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 8:20 AM
Is it a real GL ring Betty? :)
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 8:21 AM
If its a real Ring, i'm marrying him!! : D
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 8:24 AM
back off lee.lol.
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 8:29 AM
I just want to play with it...GL or not :P
teabag - 11/12/2009, 8:32 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.
Betty - 11/12/2009, 8:35 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.
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 8:42 AM
so how do i know if im the right one? :(
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 8:43 AM
Wow Alan Moore wanting to collaborate...?
Michael Galusick - 11/12/2009, 9:06 AM
Just stick in the tip and if it burns don't go in all the way.
Betty - 11/12/2009, 9:08 AM
@ betty

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 9:22 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.
Shadowelfz - 11/12/2009, 9:49 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.

fanboiii - 11/12/2009, 9:50 AM
@ Hush: that sucks.
Morrissey and Moore are absolutely nothing alike except that they are both English and both extremely talented.
DarthMulder - 11/12/2009, 10:15 AM
@Betty...perv!
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 10:16 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 ;)
DarthMulder - 11/12/2009, 10:18 AM
You're right DarthMulder... Alan Moore doesn't need Johnny Marr to make him look good.

*chuckles to himself*
hush - 11/12/2009, 10:18 AM
LOL oh no you di - int!!
man please don't diss the Moz lulz
DarthMulder - 11/12/2009, 10:22 AM
AHHHHHHGHH ...........you were right Betty lol ;(
teabag - 11/12/2009, 10:24 AM
fanboiii--he seems cool.
Betty - 11/12/2009, 10:47 AM
MsKyle--I know I know, that was wrong! Here is a big ol' rock, forgive me?

tea--lol!
Betty - 11/12/2009, 10:51 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.
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 11:02 AM
Awwww...I thought Watchmen was getting a rock opera.

InSpace - 11/12/2009, 11:33 AM
BETTY @ I don't either!!! Thats TEA'S job!!! ; D

Lol @ InSpace!!
LEEE777 - 11/12/2009, 11:41 AM
24 Hrs 7 Days a week :P
teabag - 11/12/2009, 11:43 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.
LexLuthor - 11/12/2009, 11:48 AM
lol...Betty..im gonna have to think about it.
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 12:19 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.
Rorschach01 - 11/12/2009, 12:20 PM
lol @ Ror: That was creative
DarthMulder - 11/12/2009, 12:41 PM
lol @ darthmulder - "babe"?

a "babe"?

anyways, aside from that wicked 90's surfer slang - this news means nothing to me. Moore maybe a grea writer, but he's a wacked out psychotic hippy. His wife left him for their mistress - who lived with them for years....He was living a threesome and then his wife left him for the other chick.

the guy worships a snake - that he ADMITS is a fake god. lol.......The guy's fantastic - but the Gorillaz? Hit or miss..
Keven - 11/12/2009, 12:44 PM
one man's meat keven. ;)
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 12:53 PM
@ ror

no doubting that! he IS a great writer.
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 1:33 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.
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 1:36 PM
What meat? What? lol.

Whatever.
Keven - 11/12/2009, 2:26 PM
What's so wrong about worshipping a fake god? Seems to me like a normal person. Everyone's doing it. yuck yuck yuck. Nah for real, Im all for freedom of religion.
LexLuthor - 11/12/2009, 2:34 PM
Keven. I will try to leave some guys for you. Dont start foaming at the mouth. :)
MsKyle08 - 11/12/2009, 3:13 PM
Fkn Boooo!

Wait... is it gonna be like A Taste For Blood? If they do it with puppets then OK.

I wonder how they'll work in the squid.

Betty - was I supposed to use my finger? I think I need a doctor.

BillyBlack - 11/12/2009, 3:19 PM
The guy can write a good story. He should stay away from hallucinogenic drugs though, that last LoEG was too trippy for me.
AlexDeLarge - 11/12/2009, 3:53 PM
Hey Alex

Was that the Black Book? still haven't checked that yet.
BillyBlack - 11/12/2009, 4:01 PM
Yeah, Black Dossier. It's good for the most part. Lot's of characters.
LexLuthor - 11/12/2009, 4:03 PM
@ lex and billy

black dossier wasn't really anything like the others, i didn't like it as much. it wasn't as much a comic, as the others. it was weird.
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 4:54 PM
I think V for Vendetta would make for a great rock opera. V is such a dramatic character with a penchant for rhyme. Alan Moore did the Simpsons, so he's OK in my book. I don't think he's pretentious. I think he just has great pride for his work. I'm one of the few here that didn't really like Watchmen that much. (I'm not going to go into it.)

@CDB: Yeah, the Black Dossier wasn't really accessible to me.
Upupandaway - 11/12/2009, 8:06 PM
Upupandaway-- V is kind of like The Phantom of the opera. Or in Alan Moore's case, The Phantom of the Hip-Hopera!
Betty - 11/12/2009, 9:33 PM
I stopped reading the loeg after the second one, that on was just weird to me, I've never read the dossier I was just to turned off.
thwhtGuardian - 11/12/2009, 9:33 PM
@ whtguardian

your not missing anything man. you know how at the end of the first two, there were long, historical accounts of things that happened in the world, and it was written in more of a novel format than a comic?? well thats how the majority of black dossier is. i almost can't even classify it as a comic.
CorndogBurglar - 11/12/2009, 9:37 PM
@ thwhtGuardian & CorndogBurglar

Also, I think you need a degree in British Lit to understand the whole thing. I actually liked the stories at the end of the first two. They pulled me in like the "Under the Hood" segments of Watchmen. This was just weird.
Upupandaway - 11/12/2009, 9:48 PM
But he gave you cool 3D glasses!! The only way to enjoy the Black Dossier's ending is stoned. 3D GLASSES!
AlexDeLarge - 11/12/2009, 9:53 PM
@Alex:

I got mine at the library. No glasses. Oh, and no pot.
Upupandaway - 11/12/2009, 9:59 PM
i thought he was in the smiths! lol (NOTHING ALIKE!!!)hes one of thows guys i would kill to meet but i know he wouldnt like me. did yall c the simpsons with him? hee larious. i love the exrordinary gentlemen....i would be mad at hollywoon too! but i thought watchmen at least deserves his attention,did anyone see stardust and read the book? now theres a horrible adaptation!!!! if i were niel gaimen i would egg the producers!!!!
ProfOJ - 11/13/2009, 7:20 PM
Supreme is great too!
Upupandaway - 11/13/2009, 10:03 PM

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