Warren Ellis: '300 better than Watchmen'

Warren Ellis has said that Zack Snyder's 300 is a much better comic book adaptation than his version of Watchmen.

The RED author told Metro that filmmakers should not try to follow their source material too slavishly.

Ellis said: "They work best when people adapt them the way they would with a book. The adaptation of 300 is really good. It takes out all the things from the graphic novel that wouldn't work in a film and adds things to make it work as a film.

"Watchmen, by the same director, wasn't as successful because he tried to do a frame-by-frame adaptation of a graphic novel. You're writing dialogue to be read on a page, which has to work in a graphic way."

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