According to AICN, David Bowie is working on a WATCHMEN opera.


"We heard some cool news about David Bowie, who is working with Mansell to write a new Major Tom song for the end of the film. His “Space Oddity” was one of the things that first inspired Aronofsky, and the way he portrays the desolation of deep space travel certainly calls that song to mind. We also learned that Bowie grilled Aronofsky about his involvement with WATCHMEN. Turns out Bowie’s working on a rock opera version of WATCHMEN on his own, although details about that production are still tentative."

Recently, CBR News visited the set of the upcoming Darren Aronofsky film "The Fountain" in Montreal. A full report on that set visit is forthcoming, but while we were on the set, we got a chance to sit down with Aronofsky who revealed something somewhat surprising about his previous involvement with the "Watchmen" feature film.

Fans familiar with "Watchmen's" move from the printed page to silver screen know that Aronofsky was once attached to the feature. Paramount was anxious to get started, but Aronofsky was already deep in to pre-production on "The Fountain." Aronofsky said, "When it was set-up [Paramount was] really excited and wanted it out summer 2006 and I was like this isnt' a film you can rush because if you fuck it up, there's going to be a lot of angry people." Paramount and Aronofsky went their separate ways once it was clear Aronofsky wasn't available for the project.

During that period, though, Aronofsky met with musician David Bowie, who was also following the development of "Watchmen." "The funny thing is when I went to meet Bowie, one of the first things he asked me was if I was doing 'Watchmen,'" said Aronofsky. "Because it turns out he was developing an opera out of 'Watchmen.' So I thought, if I do this and fuck it up I'll piss David Bowie off! Really you have to do ['Watchmen'] very carefully."

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luv4u said:

i wasn't bumping it. i was adding new info as i found it. it was all posted in about 5 minutes as i was researching.

KidOmega said:

Just edit your 1st post to add more stuff

oh dear. this could be the greatest thing ever.

or a complete disaster. Watchmen doesn't really lend itself to a rock opera

Alan Moore must be pulling his hair out (although he has lots to spare). He doesn't even like his books being made into movies, much less a rock opera????

Tessa said:

Bowie says he going to do lots of things....I think the end result will probably be a really great album that might be associated with "Watchmen", whatever that is.

sextonseven said:

doesn't stop him from selling them to be made into movies though. the outcomes suck bad, but he's not opposed to the idea. after he decided to stop accepting the money from them, they finally made a good one (V for Vendetta)

KidOmega said:

If he doesn't accept money from the films then it can't really be selling now, can it?

sextonseven said:

actually, yes. he sells them. but after From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlement, he said he would no longer accept the money that was coming to him from the studios for movies made of his stories. This was back when people were saying that V was completely altered and barely resembled (the point) of the original story he wrote. Not sure if that's still his stance after V turned out to be pretty good and did fairly well at the box office, though.

KidOmega said:

I heard he hasn't seen any of those films. If he is indeed still "selling" his works to Hollywood then what else can we expect other than a Watchmen movie?