‘Watchmen’ Creator Alan Moore Asked DC to Send His Film and TV Royalties to Black Lives Matter: Recent Movies Don’t Stand By Their ‘Original Principles’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Alan Moore, the comic book visionary best known for writing such revered works as “Watchmen,” “V for Vendetta” and “Batman: The Killing Joke,” revealed to The Telegraph that he is longer accepting royalty checks from DC Comics for films and television series based on his works.

He’s asked the company to instead reroute these checks to Black Lives Matter. The Telegraph asked Moore if reports were true about him taking all of the money he makes from film and TV series and dividing it among the writers and other creatives, to which the writer answered: “I no longer wish it to even be shared with them.

I don’t really feel, with the recent films, that they have stood by what I assumed were their original principles. So I asked for DC Comics to send all of the money from any future TV series or films to Black Lives Matter.” Moore added that he is not interested in money and lives a quiet live in Northampton, England.

He has been vocal in the past about not agreeing with adaptations of his work, and he’s highly critical of contemporary superhero movies, which he once called a “blight” to cinema and “also to culture to a degree.” He said in an October 2022 interview with The Guardian that adults’ continued love of superhero movies is an “infantilization” that can act as “a precursor to fascism.” Moore expressed worry at the time over “hundreds of thousands of adults lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys — and it was always boys — of 50 years ago.” “I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare,” Moore said.