Watchmen

:For the Canadian band, see The Watchmen.

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In 1987, Mayfair Games produced two adventure modules based on Watchmen for its DC Heroes role-playing game. These modules, entitled "Who Watches the Watchmen?" and "Taking out the Trash", included background information about the fictional Watchmen universe, approved by Alan Moore. His approval made these publications valuable to fans as the only outside source of supplemental information about the characters in the story (especially minor characters, such as the Minutemen and Moloch).

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Mayfair Games - DC Heroes - Role-playing game - Alan Moore - Moloch

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DC Comics also released a limited edition badge set featuring characters and images from the series as well as a replica smiley badge. A sequel of sorts was proposed with a Tales Of The Black Freighter mini series or one-shot as the most likely possiblities. Unfortunately, this never happened, as when Alan Moore fell out with DC Comics over censorship issues, he promptly stopped any potential new work he was planning to submit to DC.

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DC Comics - Alan Moore

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In 1988 British Acid House music act Bomb the Bass used the blood stained smiley badge on the cover of the "Beat Dis" single release. This influenced the adoption of the Smiley Badge as a feature of rave culture.

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On October 5, 2005, DC Comics will release an "absolute edition" hardcover version of Watchmen to celebrate its upcoming 20th anniversary. The hardcover will be produced with a slipcase with restored and recolored art by John Higgins at Wildstorm FX under the direction of Dave Gibbons. The new book will also include 48 pages of additional bonus material, ranging from the original proposal to concept art.

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Film version

In 1989 and again in 1996, Terry Gilliam was approached to direct a movie based on the series, the first time under production by Joel Silver, but both projects failed. Gilliam once commented that the material was unfilmable as a feature film but would consider directing a twelve part miniseries. The option was picked up again in April 2004 when Darren Aronofsky was named as director but eventually dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with pre-production of The Fountain.

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Terry Gilliam - Joel Silver - Darren Aronofsky - The Fountain

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In May 2005, Paul Greengrass had decided to direct a movie based on the series for Paramount Pictures, with a script by David Hayter. Paramount Pictures dropped the project in June 2005, and producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin are reportedly taking the project to other studios. No actors have yet been cast, although Jude Law has long maintained interest in such a project.

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2005 - Paul Greengrass - Paramount Pictures - David Hayter - June 2005 - Larry Gordon - Lloyd Levin - Jude Law

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