http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/02/03/get-ready-for-watchmen-2/ Not sure about the legitimacy of the site, I don't normally read them... but if there's even a nugget of truth to this, Dan Didio is a bigger idiot than I gave him credit for.
Well, on the one hand this is annoying. On the other hand, one day - maybe not in the near future, but one day - Watchmen and characters like Rorschach will probably be exploited as willy-nilly as Frankenstein or Dracula or Sherlock Holmes - just another popular story from earlier age that can be bent in just about any direction that either an artistic or exploitative imagination wants to take it.
It can have the tagline: "Rorschach's journal, October 12th 1985. Dog carcass in Rorschachberry Cereal this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This brand's afraid of me. I've seen its true face. The bowls are extended gutters and the gutters are full of milk".
After thinking about it for a few minutes, the only prequel story I'd have any interest in reading would be a Comedian anthology... fleshing out and showing his adventures and exploits after the Minutemen disbanded. However, given we already know that he killed John Kennedy, Woodward and Bernstein (and most likely Hooded Justice), are there any plot twists or information left to make the story worth telling?
They shouldn't but IF they do a sequel it could be about Rorschach's journal revealing Ozy's conspiracy and the fallout from that.
We can certainly hope that the corporate death grip on fictional creations will one day be broken and such works will enter the public domain as they should. Things are not looking up in this direction at the moment, though.
Two ways. 1) We meet Rorschach's long, lost illegitimate son who surfaces to get revenge for the death of his father. 2) Turns out Dr. Manhattan didn't kill Rorschach...he actually sent him back in time in an elaborate plot to undo the events of the first comic series, thereby creating an alternate reality where Alan Moore never existed.
um. I'm assuming that the Russians tried a million times and one to create their own Doctor Manhattan, but forgive my failing memory. Did John disappear Rorschach, or was there a body left behind? Because a movie about Rorschach with the powers of Doctor Manhattan couldn't be half as bad as that Jim Carey movie where God gave him 6 fingers.
At least, I hope you're joking. Mr. "All Things Are Preordained, Even My Responses" is about the last person who would believe the past can be changed.
Every time I hear Watchmen I think of the simpsons and Milhouse's Watchmen babies comic. http://blackmaps.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/watchmen-babies.jpg
Watchmen Begins: Watchmen Origins Rorschach (Gotta get that shitty joke out of the way.) Highlights include: Danny Huston as a younger Richard Nixon, and his friendship with Rorschach before their falling out. The Comedian trying to stop the Manson Family murder spree, intentionally killing Charles Manson in the process. Rorschach's shortlived "mod" look. A previously unseen African-American hero, Ebony Thunder. The Comedian trying to save Patty Hearst, and killing her in the process. Adrian Veidt's original scheme to frame Dr. Manhattan for the existence of herpes. Dr. Manhattan's safe sex commercial. Silk Spectre's time spent as an undercover Playboy Bunny (Hugh Hefner in this timeline was actually a cult leader). The Comedian trying to save members of Hefner's cult in French Guiana and killing them all in the process. Night Owl's affair with an obsessed fan who winds up trying to kill him.
Not liking a sequel idea, but a movie involving the Minutemen would be awesome. Amazed there are no existing comics, stories, anything on them. Love the time period and the retro costumes!