Alan Moore Talks About HBO's WATCHMEN Series and Says He Told Damon Lindelof To Never Bother Him Again

It’s a known fact that Alan Moore is not a fan of Hollywood and despises the adaptations of his comic book work. That didn’t stop Watchmen series showrunner Damon Lindelof from reaching out to him! Lindelof wrote him a letter and asked him some questions, and Moore told him never to bother him again.

Lindelof would reveal that he was "absolutely convinced" that Moore had "a magical curse placed upon" him. Moore shared the story himself in an interview with GQ saying the letter began, "Dear Mr. Moore, I am one of the bastards currently destroying Watchmen," something he said "wasn't the best opener."

Moore added, "It went on through a lot of, what seemed to me to be, neurotic rambling. 'Can you at least tell us how to pronounce 'Ozymandias'?' I got back with a very abrupt and probably hostile reply telling him that I'd thought that Warner Brothers were aware that they, nor any of their employees, shouldn't contact me again for any reason. I explained that I had disowned the work in question, and partly that was because the film industry and the comics industry seemed to have created things that had nothing to do with my work, but which would be associated with it in the public mind. I said, 'Look, this is embarrassing to me. I don't want anything to do with you or your show. Please don't bother me again.'"

As for the Watchmen series, in regards to it winning an Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series, he said, "When I saw the television industry awards that the Watchmen television show had apparently won, I thought, 'Oh, god, perhaps a large part of the public, this is what they think Watchmen was?' They think that it was a dark, gritty, dystopian superhero franchise that was something to do with white supremacism. Did they not understand Watchmen? Watchmen was nearly 40 years ago and was relatively simple in comparison with a lot of my later work. What are the chances that they broadly understood anything since? This tends to make me feel less than fond of those works. They mean a bit less in my heart."

Moore has retired from writing in the comics medium, making his last published workThe League of Extraordinary Gentleman. He just wants to be left alone now. I’m surprised that GQ managed to land an interview with him!