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Joe S. Walker
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If you disown a project, you should just disown it. End of. As Ditko has done with the Spider-Man films.
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Simon Bucher-Jones
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I see Joe : so your answer is 3) . Well we'll have to disagree because I think that's the option that rewards 'poor film making' most and least rewards 'collaborators' and is no more or no less egotistic than any of the others. Interesting to see Ditko posited as a sensible guide to interacting with business, through. Simon BJ
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Simon Bucher-Jones
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I removed this because I can't see either of us will convince the other, and we can't guess how far a tongue-was-in-a-cheek in an interview neither of us was at. Simon BJ
Edited by Simon Bucher-Jones on 10 September 2010 at 9:31am
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Joe S. Walker
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I read it all. I don't think Moore was joking.
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Andrew W. Farago
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"What... Gibbons shouldn't be grateful for receiving all Moores profits?"
Not particularly, no. This is presuming Gibbons receives his fair share anyway as accredited half-creator. It's not as if Moore is making up for his having been screwed in the past (is it?) If I was in that position I'd feel it was rather insulting, since the implication is that Moore's integrity is superior to other people's. |
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I think Dave got a pretty hefty payday when Moore decided to pass along his share of the royalties, so why wouldn't he be grateful? Eddie Campbell, David Lloyd and Kevin O'Neill have all benefited from this practice, and I think it's great that Moore's treated his collaborators so well in that regard. All of their books received nice sales bumps from the movies, too, which was an added bonus.
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Martin Redmond
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QUOTE:
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I'm not gonna read that interview, but if what you say it right, then think it's a generous gesture from Moore indeed, imo. No one was forcing him to give it away.
Edited by Martin Redmond on 10 September 2010 at 1:20pm
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Matthew McCallum
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Don't you just love egos? When Dave Gibbons phoned me up, he assured me that these [Watchmen] prequels and sequels would be handled by ‘the industry’s top-flight talents’. Now, I don’t think that the contemporary industry actually has a ‘top-flight’ of talent. I don’t think it’s even got a middle-flight or a bottom-flight of talent.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Moore could have bought a lifetime supply of beard-care products and Magic: The Gathering cards with his cut from those movies, and had more than enough left over to buy a small castle or an awesome custom van. Turning down that much "free" money can't be easy, and since he was powerless to stop the production on those movies, giving the artists his proceeds is a pretty classy gesture.
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William McCormick
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I don't see that as having an ego at all Matthew. Many of have been decrying the complete lack of talent in much of today's industry.
You can bet your ass if they do any prequels or sequels they will be done by the likes of Millar or Bendis.
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Adam Hutchinson
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Man Alan Moore comes off as wicked self-absorbed and paranoid in that article: Warner Brothers is coming at him through code phrases and denying work to his friend with a dying brother.
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Peter Martin
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"Just simply get some of your top-flight talent to put out a book that the wider public outside of the comics field find as interesting or as appealing as the stuff that I wrote 25 years ago." DC could do worse than trying this strategy... particularly the bit about trying to engage the wider public.
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Adam Hutchinson
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Peter, was that before or after he excused DC of not having any top- or middle-flight talent?
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