Ain’t it cool news hade f?ljande nyhet f?r ett tag sedan:
After reviewing the script and casting of HELLBLAZER, Comic Kingpin Alan Moore has done the unthinkable. He’s washed his hand of the entire debacle. That’s right- he’s instructed DC to NOT credit him as the creator of the character. And putting his money where his mouth is, he has instructed that the royalties that he was splitting with his co-creators goes EXCLUSIVELY to the artists, Veitch and Bissette.
Often we hear about an artist upset that his creation has been butchered but this is the first I can recall where the creator asked that both name and money be rejected. Moore is apparently so upset at the desecration done to Constantine by Producer Lauren Shuler Donner that he is stating that he will never support a film project based on his work again. DC Toady Paul Levitz is running around trying to get Moore to change his position, but Levitz is the one who had 30,000 copies of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #5 pulped. The bad PR this move could create in the geek community is of grave concern to Warners and DC.
Vilket inte alls f?rv?nade mig, f?r Moore har en historia av att g? hela v?gen n?r han blir irriterad eller f?rbannad eller bara s?rad. Mannen verkar ?rligt talat bara vilja skriva serier.
Anyway: enligt Neil Gaiman s? ?r artiklen inte sann. Gaiman skriver f?rljande p? sin dagbok:
Oh, it’s true that Alan’s rejected the money for CONSTANTINE and assigned it to his cocreators, but he’s now done that for all films of his and things he’s done that might one day be filmed. This was because he was deeply hurt and offended and irritated by being accused in the Larry Cohen lawsuit of having written League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as some kind of studio shill, and because Alan never does anything by halves. Up until the lawsuit his position was that he didn’t care about the films people made from his work, but was happy to cash the cheques; after, he decided that he didn’t even want to cash the cheques.
His share of Constantine was redistributed among his co-creators, John Totleben, Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch and to Jamie Delano and John Ridgway.
As far as I know, from having spoken to him, Alan’s view on Constantine itself is the same as his view on From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which is that he’ll probably rent the DVD one day, you never know, hell might freeze over, — and that the important work is the comic — the main difference being here that the film is, from what I understand, mostly based on the Garth Ennis and Jamie Delano issues of the Hellblazer comic.
Vilket inte alls g?r mig ledsen. Jag gillar Alan Moore, jag n?stan avgudar det han har skrivit, dock inte hans Hellblazer nummer. D?r ?r jag ett mycket st?rre fan av Ennis, och om filmen verkligen kommer att koncentrara sig p? “Dangerous Habits” storyn s? ?r jag genast v?ldigt intresserad. Dock ?r v?l det st?rsta problemet f?r mig att Keanu Reeves spelar Constantine. Han m? se ut som karakt?ren (f?rutom att han inte ?r blond) men jag tvivlar starkt p? om han kommer att klarar av att spela det ultimata aset.
Jag kommer dock fortfarande att se filmen p? bio. Om inte annat f?r att f? se Peter Stormare spela ?ver som Satan.
