Watchmen

Sadly, I have to agree. While I'd love to see it translated accurately into live-action, I simply have no confidence in Hollywood to accurately re-create the experience of reading the original work. And what hurts most is that there are tons of amazing actors and actresses out there who could really bring this project to life, so long as it was in the right hands.

I have some fears as well, as they would clearly need at least 4 hours to do this thing right, and they would have to ditch the pirate sub-story as well to maintain cohesion on screen. In related events, Justice League Unlimited (Cartoon Network) just did an old Alan Moore Superman story(Supes Bday w/ the black mercy parasite). Very cool story, and they did a decent job, although they truncated it a bit....

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New interviews with the new director, Paul Greengrass.
Part I, Part II.

Well, it looks like Watchmen is canned (that is, unless another studio decides to pick it up).

Read:

Plug Pulled On Watchmen Movie

I hate to say it, but I'm somewhat pleased about this. Paramount isn't the right kind of studio for something as avant-garde as Watchmen; and anyway, the film really needs to be a mini-series. Not that it'll happen, because it won't - but if it can't be done right, then it shouldn't be done at all. Reading about Hayter's script made me ill - there were so many unnecessary changes and alterations. Frankly, I'd hoped that those changes were driven by Paramount brass, and not by Hayter himself. Perhaps he'll have a chance to amend the script for a better studio, if such is the case...

Yippee!

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Now if only a meteor fragment would nail wherever they're filming V for Vendetta (London, I hope), we'd be set for another year or so.

Filming for V for Vendetta takes place in both London, England, UK and Berlin, Germany.

Thanks to IMDB

The production looks great, they're just messing with the story too much.

Watchmen has been cancelled. HOORAY.

No Watchmen movie news, thank goodness. Seriously, I hope this is never, ever made into a feature film.



BUT, for fans of the novel or anybody who simply wants to see what all the fuss is about, there's a brand new super-deluxe edition that's just been released. The Watchmen: Absolute Edition (ISBN#1401207138, $75) is a gigantic 13" x 8˝" x 2" hardcover edition of the book in a hard slipcase. In addition to all twelve issues reprinted in oversized form, for the first time colorist John Higgins is able to reproduce the vibrant images as intended on heavy paper stock, resulting in the best looking edition yet. There are also thirty or so pages of supplemental material, including what the original script looked like and the sketches of each character as they were refined by Moore and Gibbons.

For anybody who loves The Watchmen, put this book on your holiday wishlist.


WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?

Anybody want to contribute to the "Buy Sleezy The Watchmen: Absolute Edition Fund"?

You know Watchmen was on Time's 100 Greatest Peices of Lit Ever Written in the English Language list, right?

Yep. It was the only graphic novel on there.

And last time I checked, it was topping the Popular Vote list (right above Orwell's 1984). I don't know if it's THAT good, but as a fan of Watchmen, it's kinda nice to see the recognition.

Here ya go, Holden. Some salt in your wounds...

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Watchmen is ruined...

to be honest, i heard bout the whole watchmen/aronofsky thing last spring on imdb, i think. i think that aronofsky really did a great job with requiem and pi. i took a course on comic books and we read the watchmen in it. i absolutely loved the comic. had never heard of it until i read it. i think aronofsky could really do well with the movie

Well, with the sucess of V for Vendetta I'm hoping Watchmen will be just as good. Hopefully we won't fall into that slew of bad adaptations that we had to crawl out of.

You know, given the work Snyder is doing on 300, he might actually be a decent choice. He's certainly showing that property a fair amount of respect. I'd expect the same attention to detail with Watchmen, of course (I mean, why not?).

But what really worries me is the "David Hayter script" part. Not only was his scripts rumored to be vastly altered from the source material, but Hayter is also not the calibur screenwriter that Watchmen deserves. I mean, the guy wrote The Scorpion King for chrissakes! And I'm sorry, but the X-screenplays are much too rudimentary. A little more forgivable for X-Men, I think, but Watchmen is different. Much deeper, much more carefully written, and fashioned by one writer (not a whole battalion of writers since the 1960s). The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen shows us pretty well that Alan Moore's work can't (and shouldn't) be reduced to the rudimentary. And Watchmen is the guy's masterpiece.

I thought the recent work being done on the film has scrapped the David Hayter script?