![]() ![]() ![]() Making Manhattan the focus of Ozymandias’ scheme means that the movie doesn’t feature an island filled with missing scientists, artists and psychics…or the gigantic, faux-interstellar squid they created. ![]() This extends to the recent Watchmen TV series. Whereas in the comics, he only targets New York City, and the blame is pinned on a fictitious alien invader. Moore famously hates all of the Hollywood adaptations of his work, including Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and the dystopian classic, V for Vendetta. In the film, Ozymandias obliterates several of the world’s major cities using energy reactors that mimic Doctor Manhattan’s radioactive decay signature. Admittedly, the general gist behind both conclusions – an atrocity is committed to unite humanity against a common enemy, averting impending nuclear war – is the same, but they differ greatly in their execution. Easily the biggest divergence between the Watchmen movie and the maxiseries are their respective endings. ![]()
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