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The first half of this in-depth interview with Alan Moore can be read here.

The beloved creator of genre-shaping comics such as Watchmen and V for Vendetta, Alan Moore famously left superheroes - and ultimately the entire comics industry - behind, moving on from the medium he helped define to embrace prose writing in projects such as Jerusalem and the recently released Illuminations, now available in paperback from Bloomsbury Publishing. Now, Moore sits down with Screen Rant to discuss his prose, as well as his larger perspective on modern popular entertainment and its effect on the world.

In the first half of this in-depth interview with Screen Rant, Moore discussed his disappointment with modern fantasy (including Game of Thrones), the sinister values underlying superhero stories, and the relationship between nostalgia and fascism. Now, the acclaimed writer moves onto what makes his prose so unique, the death of counterculture, and how to fix popular entertainment.

Chicago – One of most important counterculture novels in American literature history is “On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac. First published in 1957, the film rights were purchased at the time, but it took over fifty more years to get it onto the screen. Director Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”) took on the adaptation.

The history of adapting the book to film is as much of a journey as the characters take in the story. After late 1950s Hollywood couldn’t interpret the radical morality in the book (Marlon Brando was attached to play the lead role at one point), and the rights were reacquired by Francis Ford Coppola in the late 1970s. Problems with several screenplay versions occurred, and it wasn’t until the mid-2000s that the team that produced “The Motorcycle Diaries” – screenwriter Jose Rivera and director Walter Salles – took their own journey with the classic novel, and the...