How (And Who) To Make Watchmen 2?

Once we acquire over our shock at the hearsay that DC Comics may be plan a sequel to Watchmen , we started question : What would be the best way to go about it ? And could it ever be deserving it ?

Here ’s the thing ; even though Richsays his rumor was triple - source , it still seemed very unlikely to me – Watchmen , after all , is n’t just a comic any longer , but an idealised platonic ideal of a comic that has come to mean more to people than it was probably intended to . sure , I rationalize , DC are voguish enough not to jazz with that bequest for short - terminal figure gain and a few dollar bill . I mean , that ’d be like doinga sequel to The Dark Knight Returnsor twounrelatedsequelsto Kingdom Come … Ah , bullshit .

But what would a Watchmen spin - off look like ? Who could do it justice … or , for that topic , would be willing to adjudicate ? Putting aside all ideas of potential catastrophe , here are what I remember are the most likely scenario .

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Rumor has it that both prequel and sequel to Watchmen are being considered , and there ’re unquestionably arguments to be made for both . A prequel would allow Divine the chance to show familiar fiber in conversant situations , and play off both the “ more unacquainted ” early days and the dark undertone that ran beneath them . It would also permit for a more traditional superhero bent - up , which may be what reader would need to see , whereas any subsequence would either have to flesh out a post - squid reality only hinted at in the original book ( and come up with a new grounds for the characters to come together that does n’t betray the end of the original ) , or else create something entirely novel that somehow tie in with the original narrative .

If I had to choose where to set a spin - off , we ’d go for the less popular choice : Set it after Watchmen . Not only would a prequel … well , be a prequel , but security guard moderately much fulfill in all of the fibre beat from what went before , meaning that a prequel would either be a retread or sum unnecessary complication . Not only is the post - squid world of Watchmen unresolved for design , the Christian Bible ends with a cliffhanger of sorts that would easily provide the main narration for a sequel : What materialise to Rorschach ’s journal ?

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( Also , doing a sequel place in the present day allows for the Black Freighter scenes to be replaced by some teenager torrenting manga scanslations , which amuse me for some understanding . Sorry . )

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The possible fan backlash for anyone working on a new Watchmen projection is massive , and definitely big enough to scare off many potential Maker – and that ’s ignoring the Creator who would n’t consider such a project out of support for Alan Moore and/or respect for the original book . That means that DC would be left with three potential groups to prefer from , if the potential comeback of original creative person Dave Gibbons as writer and creative person did n’t come to pass ( There ’s historical common law for that , by the way ; Moore ’s artists on Skizz , Top 10 and Greyshirt all withdraw over written material duties on sequels than Moore was n’t affect with ): Those so do-or-die they ’ll do anything , those so big that they think they ’re recoil - proof , or those who just do n’t care . The name being bandy about most online falls squarely into the last two family : Grant Morrison . We make love thathe ’s already working on a thematic follow - up to Watchmen , using the part who were the intake for Moore and Gibbons ; is it possible that undertaking has become Watchmen 2 somewhere along the manner ?

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A name that has n’t been talked about in connectedness with the project , but should be : Len Wein . Not only was he the editor in chief of the original series – thereby potentially bypassing some of the “ YOU WEREN’T THERE , MAN ” rebound – but he also lick on new material for the Watchmen video games accompanying last year ’s movie and is currently back writing for DC Comics . If I were throwing out dream picks to write it , I ’d intimate twentieth Century Boys and Pluto ’s Naoki Urasawa , who has shown himself able to handle slowburn dramatic event on both bombastic and human weighing machine in a way that ’s equal to , but owes nothing to , Moore ’s original .

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Just Because you’re able to Does n’t Mean You Should , Right ?

Do n’t get me wrong , I still do n’t think that spinning off Watchmen is a good idea ( As Marvel Comics writer Matt Fractiontwittered , “ in fairness , the only theme dumber than Watchmen sequels & spinoffs is doing Watchmen sequel & spinoffs a whole year after the movie flush it ” ) . It ’s just that I ’ve realized that it may not be enough of a bad theme to make it unworkable : The failure , both critically and commercially – although it ’s since gone through a “ You just did n’t understand it ” review – of The Dark Knight Strikes Again has n’t really hurt The Dark Knight Returns at all , which may be enough to prove to DC and Warners that Watchmen ’s longterm panorama would n’t be too hurt by a failed endeavor at a subsequence ( And , after all , it ’s already outlive last year ’s movie and product onslaught ) , and , peculiarly enough , the backlash to the very thought of a spin - off could work in the undertaking ’s favor by let down expectations enough that anything other than the very worst mirthful book of account ever made seems like a thin win in comparison .

The real lesson from the backlash should , of line , be teaching is to leave Watchmen alone ; the straight value of the original is not its fibre , write up or dealership potential , but the record book itself , the way that the fib ’s tell – The employment and geographic expedition of the medium and , to be stark , the fact that it ’s a story terminated in and of itself . If the drift to create Watchmen 2 hail from the desire to have more Quran in DC ’s library that sell as strongly , and for such a long full stop of fourth dimension , then the last affair to do should be to look back and think about continuing someone else ’s story . We already have a feast of fictitious character whose stories go on and on . The room to get a new Watchmen is to attempt to produce something fresh .

Lesdilley