Watchmen movie release, one year and counting

[Hammer of Los]

I quite liked "The Watchmen," but for the greatest, most politically astute comic ever produced, you just can't beat Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s "Marshal Law;"

The government has commissioned living weapons of mass destruction to wage war on terror. The survivors return home broken, bitter, insane. Some form gangs, some go psycho. Some turn into ‘A’ list celebrities with ‘A’ bomb fists. The city is now a war zone.

San Futuro needs a Super Cop to enforce summary justice. His eyes will reflect the rocket’s red glare. He is Twilight’s Last Gleaming…

MARSHAL LAW



Now, a film of that would be worth watching. Then again, likely not. They'd probably cast Silvester Stallone (or er, whoever the contemporary equivalent is, I don't get out much these days)...

[Jeff]

Alan Moore's Celluloid Nightmares

[OP ED]

Jeff, you have this talent for taking whatever nightmare scenario is playing in my head and making it high-def.

I'm not sure whether to thank you for that or not.

[Jeff]

Picture of "The Minutemen" released today.

"What we have below is a photo that the Minutemen took - Who are the Minutemen? Well in WATCHMEN - it was the first TEAM of superheroes that formed in 1939 and pulled a BEATLES in 1949. In the pic below you'll see the classic SILK SPECTRE and NITE OWL... you'll see CAPTAIN METROPOLIS, MOTHMAN, SILHOUETTE, COMEDIAN, DOLLAR BILL and with the noose... HOODED JUSTICE."

[orz]

Now that's more like it.

Still, will be no good.

[tKl]

You can stone me now - I didn't really like the comic book. It bored me.

[tKl]

Few will go see the whole movie.
Far more will see just the title and heroic framing.

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L Oh fuckin' L - clever!

[OP ED]

You can stone me now - I didn't really like the comic book. It bored me.

it'd probably be better just to throw copies of the book at you. heavier than stones, books are.

honestly, i don't think its his best work. but its better than mosts' best works. it was probably neccessary.

it may or may not be compatible with film. personally, i doubt it. it'll probably at least be entertaining enough to be worth my [$$$$] for an evening.

they have to at least try to do it properly. otherwise they'll be crucified.

but whatever.

LIL,
SHCR

[Attack Ships on Fire]

Having stood inside the Owlship, Gunga Diner, Doc Manhattan's laboratory, Rorschach's prison cell and a bunch of other places and watching what Snyder and the team were cooking up, my expectations of the "Watchmen" movie went from jaded comic book fan to this could be one of the best comic book adaptations of all time. And if I say anything further than that The Comedian is going to come and kick my ass.

Look for the trailer in front of Mr. Gotham City's new movie next month.

[Jeff]

And if I say anything further than that The Comedian is going to come and kick my ass.

Whaaaaa?

[tKl]

The story is still boring.

[thurnundtaxis]

Everything I've seen so far seems to indicate that the stylistic visual treatments are some of the best comic book translations ever.

My concern is with the formatting. Compression of the work to movie length,
although supplemented by a dvd of "the Black Freighter" story, and attendant webisodes to provide further exposition, seem a well intentioned
though clunky attempt at giving us the "most" out of the storyline.

My wish would have been for this creative team to have been able to produce
The Watchmen as a 12 episode cable tv miniseries.

In the wake of successful Showtime and HBO series I feel that route may have marked a grand missed opportunity, should this project fail through over-reach conflicting with format limitations.

[Jeff]

My wish would have been for this creative team to have been able to produce
The Watchmen as a 12 episode cable tv miniseries.

It does seem like a story that needs that long to tell.



Watchmen: Three Hour Theatrical Cut? 4 1/2+ Hour Directors Cut DVD Planned

Zack Snyder is in post production on his big screen adaptation of Watchmen, and is currently sitting on a three-hour superhero movie.

And the eventual Ultimate Edition DVD version of the movie (think Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings extended editions on crack) will no doubt be over four and a half plus hours in length. More on that in a bit. Since a big screen adaptation of Watchmen was first announced, many fans of the original Alan Moore comic book mini-series wondered how Tales of the Black Freighter, the story-within-the-story, would be handled, if at all.

...

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/27/wat ... d-planned/

NOTE: I'm moving this thread to Culture Studies. I keep looking for it there....

[mulebone]

Who needs a Watchman movie anyway?

Why does every comic fan need film for validation?

Here's a combination of Alan Moore and film that looks like it's actually worth wasting lifetime on.

http://www.shadowsnake.com/Mindscape_trailer.html

[Jeff]

The trailer has just been released:

http://www.empireonline.com/video/watchmen/