Len Wein on “Watchmen”
Len Wein, editor of “Watchmen,” talked to Comic Book Resources about his role, and what he thinks of the adaptation. Wein is probably best-known as the co-creator of Wolverine, but he also was the co-creator of Swamp Thing, Nightcrawler and The Human Target. Wein is writing the video game based on the world of the Watchmen characters.
From CBR:
Wein believes the finite nature of “Watchmen” is precisely why a sequel would be next to impossible. “There’s not much cast left to do a sequel,” he said, explaining that ultimately, any attempt to further examine to world of “Watchmen” would not produce the same book.
However, Wein has looked at the material again in writing a video game based on the “Watchmen” feature film. The challenge for him was “finding what works in the format given.” Wein found a period within the thirty-year time-span of the book to set the game. While he could not be more specific as the game is still in development, Wein did say the action is set “ten years before the graphic novel takes place where there were events mentioned in the novel just as throw away lines.” Wein could not say which characters will be playable, but he did reveal several characters will be available to the player. The game will be released in February of 2009 as a downloadable title. What he has seen of the game “looks as good as the film looks.”
– Matt Price
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