BRC Exclusive: Watchmen Script Review  Back Row Chatter
exclusively reviews the screenplay for Watchmen  Gerard Boarding
Watchmen's Black Freighter?  Over the years many screenwriters
have taken a crack at adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons'
12-part comic book series Watchmen into a feature length
screenplay. Batman's Sam Hamm, director Terry Gilliam, and X-Men
scribe David Hayter are the best known professionals that have
wrestled with this problem and each have had mixed results. Any
adaptation of a story which has found life first in another
medium is already weighed with difficulty; just look at the
myriad films based on books by Stephen King and tell me how many
of them are good horror movies. Go on, I dare you. I double dare
you. The problem with an adaptation is that, if you've read the
earlier incarnation that the movie is based upon, you've already
played the part of screenwriter, casting agent and director in
your mind when you read the story the first time. And with a
well-known, critically haile