Watchmen

On the data. Four things. Which cut of the film. There are three. The theatrical version at one hundred and sixty two minutes drops the comic within the comic entirely. The Ultimate Cut, at about two hundred and fifteen minutes, cuts the animated Tales of the Black Freighter into the film where it belongs. If you are going to watch the film at all, watch that one. The film also changes the ending, substituting one device for another, and opinions on whether that improves it are genuinely split. The HBO series is a sequel. It is set in 2019, thirty four years after the comic, in Tulsa, and it opens with the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which is real and which a great many American viewers had never been taught about. It is not a remake and it does not require the film. Alan Moore wants nothing to do with any of it. He has refused payment and credit for every adaptation, has not read or watched any of them, and has been consistently clear that DC acquiring the rights permanently, rather than returning them as he understood would happen, is why. The prequels and Doomsday Clock were made without him. Dave Gibbons has been more open to the adaptations, and he consulted on the HBO series. The 2024 animated two parter is the closest adaptation there has been, taking panels directly. It is the version to watch if what you want is the comic on screen.

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