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Saturday, August 17, 2013

LOEGTV? Better than Survivor.

Hello viewers, today I wish to bring to your attention...the news that 21th Century Fox is making a new adaption of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Whoa there guys, let's just put those down a sec.

Now hang on there, don't brandish the torches and pitchforks at me, I already get enough of that. I'm only talking about it here because this project looks like it actually could do better than that film did.
This series is having a pilot made at the moment, the producer of it being Micheal Green. He wrote both the TV series Heroes and Smallville and the film Green Lantern...so yeah, this could go either way.

See! This guy has the right idea.

As you can also expect, nobody thought to give poor Alan Moore the heads up they were planning to do this, nor offer him any position in producing the series....and as you can also expect, he's none too pleased about this either. Guy's had about as much hard luck in these type of situations as Jack Kirby got shafted by his editors.
Now I can fully understand why he'd be upset, I'm not even sure how he lost the film rights to his series but Fox made poor use of it.
Of course though, the first time they tried it the main problem was the script...that and the fact they used only the bare outline of the first volume when plotting it.

For starters, Alan Quatermain didn't have a sidekick with a very vague resemblance to Jack Black...nor did he die in the first frigging volume.

Now then, the reason I chose to bring up this is simply because I think this time they have an actual chance of making this work. I'm a big fan of Moore's work, and while he may not like this upcoming series I'll watch it regardless, no disrespect to him but I really want to see whether or not they drop the ball this time.
Remember, if you will that Beware the Batman had some pretty negative views by quite a lot of haters and trolls, but look at it now! It's a truly awesome Batman show, and the CGI is well done. All their complaints were proven to be a wad of bullshit wrapped in a pissrag.
Now granted, it may not be the same with this but it could, so let's keep our eyes on it and see if this shines like a galaxy...or buuuuurns, like a moth at the flame.


And him too.

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