Jog has a pretty hilarious post imagining Watchmen directed by Peter Greenaway.
Personally, the Watchmen I want to see is a BBC miniseries version; maybe 24 episodes, great acting by decidedly uncomely actors, campy, embarrassing costumes, bad special effects, poorly blocked fight scenes — basically Watchmen as Dr. Who.
I’m probably the only one who finds that idea appealing, though….
A 1980s BBC production of Watchmen would be the best shit ever.
HBO, 12 episodes. But I’m conventional.
I’d watch that BBC version for sure. Have you seen the BBC Day of the Triffids? Great stuff.
My dream version would have been a BBC version adapted by Dennis Potter.
Blake’s Seven may be as close as we can get to Noah’s beautiful dream.
No; Day of the Triffids sounds great. Not as enormously, mind-meltingly great as the BBC version of the Tripods trilogy, though. I so, so want to see that, but it seems to be completely unavailable…..
Dr. Who-style production values are not just the only way to adapt Watchmen but would be an improvement on the original. The comic wanted to be that all along.