Original ‘Watchmen’ Creator Alan Moore ‘Disowned’ Award-Winning HBO TV Show: ‘This Is Embarrassing To Me’

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Alan Moore wants nothing to do with the various adaptations of his DC Comics maxiseries, Watchmen — Primetime Emmy awards or not.

Moore has made it clear both personally and professionally that he wants no affiliation with the critically adored HBO limited series “Watchmen”.

In a new interview, Moore recalled a tense letter exchange with the TV series’ showrunner. Moore did not name the showrunner; however, Damon Lindelof was the one slotted in that role. “That wasn’t the best opener,” Moore told GQ. “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 Bros. were aware that they, nor any of their employees, shouldn’t contact me again for any reason. READ MORE: Bowen Yang And Jean Smart Talk Icebergs, ‘Watchmen’ And More In New ‘Actors On Actors’ Episode “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.