Thoughts?
― Wooden, Friday, 23 July 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Friday, 23 July 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I wouldn't bank on Aranofsky (and maybe even the movie itself) to come to fruition, since the last time he was pegged w/ a comics-related movie (or any movie, for that matter), it got dropped.
― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Sunday, 25 July 2004 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Josh Anomaly (josh_anomaly), Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden, Sunday, 25 July 2004 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Any idea on a budget, I imagine they are going to have to CGI the hell out of the Dr Manhatten stuff.
― DFM (DFM), Monday, 26 July 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
This may, in some ways, be the best time to do a Watchmen film, what with the recent glut of superhero movies. A bold way to do it would be to rework it so that it's a comment on the cliches of superhero films, rather than superhero comics.
― Wooden, Monday, 26 July 2004 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Monday, 26 July 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
It makes more sense to do something Watchmen-like -- closer to the spirit of the book than the plot -- than it does to try to condense something that's already incompatible into something both incompatible and resized.
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Monday, 26 July 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I was flipping through channels this weekend and stopped on TRL because Halle Berry was on, and what sealed the "I am so not going to watch this movie" issue for me was when she explained that she didn't see it as a superhero movie: "It's a movie about a woman who dies and is brought back to life as an empowered, strong woman, by a magical Egyptian cat."
What strikes me the most is the fact that, after her bitching about X-Men being silly and confusing and something she did to keep Hollywood happy, I'm pretty sure "... brought back to life as an empowered woman by a magical Egyptian cat" is something they told her to convince her to do the movie.
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Monday, 26 July 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
According to my girlfriend, it was a Joss Whedon-written line, but JW insists that it would have worked if it had been delivered properly (i.e. in a funny Buffy way, I assume) rather than with cringe-inducing seriousness.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Catwoman, whatever else is going on with it, at least looks like it's a movie she was into and had fun with.
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Monday, 26 July 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― DFM (DFM), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link
The summary of the watchmen movie posted elsewhere is that it follows the investigations of a masked vigilante "Rorschach" into killings of masked heroes past and present (to summarise), which does sound like a movie pitch.
I think it could turn into a pretty sad pseduo-detective story, with masks, in which the twists are that the POV character is a nutter and the bad guy is a superhero. It could very easily suck.
― DFM (DFM), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Lookswise for S.S., I'd go with Emmanuelle Beart. They could dub her with an American actresses' voice.
Roschach: William H. Macy. Defo.
― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd say get a time machine and get Mickey Rooney at around 35 or so, beat the heck out of him and scuff him up a bit and you'd be onto something.
Watchmen is such a comic book that it's doubtful that it'll survive the translation at all. Maybe take some of the basic plot and run with it, but it'll be barely be more than that unless someone gets brave and writes a movie in the spirit of the original. Nailing that spirit down will be trickier than everyone thinks, too.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Wanda Sykes as Ozymandias!
Dave Attell as Owlman!
HELL YEAH!
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
He'd not be too bad a choice.
― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic F, Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 February 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― lock robster (robster), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― lock robster (robster), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
xpst
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Alternately:
THIS SUMMER - WATCH OUT FOR JUSTICE!!!
― Vic Fluro, Friday, 11 February 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― what fresh hell, Friday, 11 February 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
http://chud.com/interviews/1914
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Yawn.
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.comicboards.com/gamb/moderator/Green%20Arrow.gif
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Warlock Magazine (Warlock Magazine), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Newsarama guy OTM
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
*I'm assuming here, I haven't read 300.
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 29 March 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Watchmen referenced in, er, Slate advice column:
http://www.slate.com/id/2202383/
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 October 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Dave Gibbons was interviewed on the last third of today's episode of CBC's "Q": podcast here. Also interviewed: Comic Store Guy.
― Oblivious Lad, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
NOW WITH VOICES!
― Oh Why, Sports Coat? (Dr. Superman), Friday, 14 November 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't like Rorschach's voice, but then I remembered, oh yeah, he's Batman.
― Oh Why, Sports Coat? (Dr. Superman), Friday, 14 November 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It still looks way too polished for my liking, and the potential for sadface silliness looks extremely high, but it'll be nice to see a movie with an actual plot for a change.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 15 November 2008 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
We can sev this weld.
I've made my thoughts about the shitness of this trailer known on the ILE thread.
― chap, Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1295071/
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link