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Yeah, another Alan Moore interview.

No, I really don’t care about the movies [based on his work.] Less and less as time goes on in fact. My position six months ago was that I didn’t want to see them or have anything to do with the Hollywood process and that was probably when I was at my warmest towards Hollywood. I’m afraid there has been some downturn since then, now I’ve said that I don’t want any of my works filmed again. Those works, which I don’t have any control over, such as this new Constantine that’s coming out, I want my name taken off them and any money that would have gone to me should be distributed amongst the artists. I just don’t want any connection between me and the movie industry at all. I think that it’s a joke quite frankly and it’s not a very intelligent joke. It seems to be a joke for children. Any kind of involvement with Hollywood is a waste of my time and there is no amount of money that can compensate for that. I think the industry is an embarrassment on all sorts of levels but sure there are bad comics, bad books and bad culture so it’s not just films that produce an overwhelming majority of unwatchable rubbish but films that are unwatchable rubbish cost $100 million. That is the budget of an emerging third world nation, which is the point where it goes from being merely tasteless to being kind of evil. If it’s worth reacting towards something then it’s worth overreacting. Don’t expect me to be championing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 3: The Empire Strikes Back or whatever.