Joel Silver Says Zack Snyder's 'Watchmen' A "Slave" To Comic, Terry Gilliam's Version Had No Dr. Manhattan
I still wouldn't mind seeing Gilliam do his own original take on the superhero genre, especially if it was built on the bones of this old Watchmen script. Shame it won't happen.
Quote:What Terry had done, and it was a Sam Hamm script--who had written a script that everybody loved for the first "Batman"--and then he brought in a guy who'd worked for him to do work on it [Charles McKeown, co-writer of "Brazil"].
Quote:It was very smart, it was very articulate, and it really gave a very satisfying resolution to the story, but it just didn't happen. Lost to time.
I still wouldn't mind seeing Gilliam do his own original take on the superhero genre, especially if it was built on the bones of this old Watchmen script. Shame it won't happen.