Alan Moore on 2 February 2008 | |
Born | 18 November 1953 (age 65) Northampton, England, United Kingdom |
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Pen name | Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Translucia Baboon, The Original Writer |
Occupation | Comics writer, novelist, short story writer, musician, cartoonist, magician, occultist |
Genre | Science fiction, fiction, non-fiction, superhero, horror |
Notable works | Batman: The Killing Joke From Hell Jerusalem The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Ballad of Halo Jones Lost Girls Marvelman Promethea Swamp Thing V for Vendetta Voice of the Fire Watchmen Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? For the Man Who Has Everything |
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Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Based on | Budget | Box office | Rotten Tomatoes |
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2001 | From Hell | Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes | 20th Century Fox | From Hell by Moore and Eddie Campbell | $35 million | $74.5 million | 57%[114] |
2003 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Stephen Norrington | 20th Century Fox Angry Films International Production Company JD Productions | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Moore and Kevin O'Neill | $78 million | $179.3 million | 17%[115] |
2005 | V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | Warner Bros. Virtual Studios Silver Pictures Anarchos Productions | V for Vendetta by Moore and David Lloyd | $54 million | $132.5 million | 73%[116] |
2009 | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | Warner Bros. Paramount Pictures Legendary Pictures Lawrence Gordon Productions DC Entertainment | Watchmen by Moore and Dave Gibbons | $130 million | $185.3 million | 65%[117] |
2016 | Batman: The Killing Joke | Sam Liu | Warner Bros. DC Entertainment Warner Bros. Animation | Batman: The Killing Joke by Moore and Brian Bolland | $3.5 million | $4.3 million | 48%[118] |
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Writer Alan Moore was creating a whole new paradigm ... Jumping on board The Saga of the Swamp Thing with issue No. 20, Moore wasted no time in showcasing his impressive scripting abilities. Moore, with help from artists Stephen R. Bissette and Rick Veitch had overhauled Swamp Thing's origin by issue #21.'CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore features three absolutely crucial Green Lantern stories: 'Mogo Doesn't Socialize', which introduced everyone's favorite sentient planet.
Alan Moore criticized the dearth of new ideas in modern superhero comics, and then went after DC writer Geoff Johns by claiming that his Blackest Night storyline was a ripoff of Moore’s old Tales of the Green Lantern story.
Alan Moore crafted yet another timeless tale in this annual. It featured the art of George Freeman and starred Clayface III.
Offering keen insight into both the minds of the Joker and Batman, this special is considered by most Batman fans to be the definitive Joker story of all time.
Alan Moore, who announced he was 'pretty much done' with the medium two years ago, is making a brief foray out of retirement to point an excoriating finger at Boris Johnson over the Grenfell Tower fire.
Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I've barely looked at for the past twenty years. I thought the Sin City stuff was unreconstructed misogyny, 300 appeared to be wildly ahistoric, homophobic and just completely misguided ... [The Occupy movement] is a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, non-violent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it. I'm sure if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman make-up on their faces, he'd be more in favour of it.