Graphic novelist Alan Moore opened up to GQ about his feelings on the Emmy-winning HBO adaptation of his 1987 graphic novel series Watchmen on Tuesday. The 68-year-old slammed producer Warner Brothers and screenwriter Damon Lindelof for creating an adaptation that has “nothing to do” with Moore’s original work.

Moore said without naming Lindelof that he received a letter from the screenwriter that began with: “Dear Mr. Moore, I am one of the bastards currently destroying ‘Watchmen.’” and went on to elaborate a lot of things that the veteran artist has described as ‘neurotic rambling.’

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“I got back with a very abrupt and probably hostile reply telling him that I’d thought that Warner Brothers were aware that they, nor any of their employees, shouldn’t contact me again for any reason,” Moore told GQ. 

In response to Lindelof, Moore said that the adaptation had little to do with his work that dealt extensively with police brutality and systematic racism and regretted the fact that the series will be associated with his work in the public mind.

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“I explained that I had disowned the work in question, and partly that was because the film industry and the comics industry seemed to have created things that had nothing to do with my work, but which would be associated with it in the public mind,” he said. 

‘Look, this is embarrassing to me. I don’t want anything to do with you or your show. Please don’t bother me again.” 

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HBO’s Watchmen, released in 2019, received 26 Primetime Emmy nominations and won 11, becoming one of HBO’s smashing hits in recent times. 

“When I saw the television industry awards that the ‘Watchmen’ television show had apparently won, I thought, ‘Oh, god, perhaps a large part of the public, this is what they think “Watchmen” was?’ They think that it was a dark, gritty, dystopian superhero franchise that was something to do with white supremacism,” he added.