From the Amazing Heroes Preview Special #4 (Winter 1987).
At the end of the Watchmen entry:
“Current plans call for the entire Watchmen saga to be reprinted in both hardcover and softcover formats for release through bookstores once the story is completed, and [Alan] Moore is optimistic about the eventuality of a Watchmen film.”
‘Course, I have no idea what Mr. Moore actually said. He could very well have been looking forward to a movie version of his comic, though the article says he’s optimistic about the eventuality of a film, not the film itself. Depending on how you read that, he could have said something like “oh, I’m sure there’ll be a Watchmen movie. I’m positive it’ll be terrible.”
…And, you know, that’s an optimism of sorts.
Hard to believe the film’s only about three weeks away, isn’t it? Seems like only yesterday people were complaining that Watchmen could only be properly made as a 12-part HBO series. Oh, wait, that probably was yesterday…or even today.
At any rate, we’d better sell our Watchmen books at the shop while we still can. Just in case.
