Aranofsky to direct Watchmen!

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I think Chappelle may already be booked to play John Stewart to Jack Black's whichever Green Lantern.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave Chappelle should play Cindy Crawford playing Silk Spectre.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

And Ashy Larry as Rorschach!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Louis CK directs!

Wanda Sykes as Ozymandias!

Dave Attell as Owlman!

HELL YEAH!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Mel Brooks presents: Watchmen: Men In Tights
Starring:
Dom DeLuise as Dr. Manhattan
Cloris Leachman as Silk Spectre I
Gene Wilder as Rorshach
etc.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Teri Garr PHWROAR!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Carry Elwes as Ozymandius! That could actually work.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, Pal Joey/Taxi Driver era Peter Boyle coulda made a great Rorschach. He's too old now.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=16087

He'd not be too bad a choice.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

He does seem a little young and fresh faced though. Veidt, for all his ubermenschdom, seems to also need a weltzsmerch

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this as well as the Joy Division/Tulip Fever/etc. movies that he's rumoured to be in? My pick would have been Ralph Fiennes in Amon Goethe mode, but he's doing Voldemort.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Kudos to Jude for being the tattoo, though.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

(uh, take out being)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Catwoman=Cult Of The Cat from Misty.

― Vic F, Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

http://www.watchmenmovie.com/

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

NO FUCKING WAY

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 February 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Jaw, meet floor.

― lock robster (robster), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

IMDB Entry. Not much info yet but Aronofsky's no longer involved by the looks of things.

― lock robster (robster), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

TEH WATCHMEN

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Screenplay by the voice of CAPTAIN AMERICA and SOLID SNAKE, fresh from his role as MUSEUM COP in X-MEN: TEH MOVIE.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

An Akiva Goldsmith / Joe Ezsterhaus Prodcution

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Screenplay by someone who wrote X-Men and X-Men 2, in fairness.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, that reassures me actually.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't get the IMDB page to open - is the director Philip Greenglass (dir. of The Bourne Supremacy), or am I confusing the Watchmen production w/ the V For Vendetta production?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry - I just G00gl'd. It's PAUL Greengrass.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Paul Greengrass, but yeah, the Bourne Supremacy guy. I didn't see it.

xpst

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Aronovsky left to do "The Fountain" which looks AWFUL, about a man's 1,000 year quest to find his true love. Sounds like sub-par Angel episodes to me.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

But he wrote it, so it must be IMPORTANT. From what I can judge from the IMDB page, it's probably going to involve Wolverine making sweet love to Ellen Burstyn.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

(deep, gravelly voice) Innatime... when SUPERHEROES... are BANNED... ONE GROUP... of superhumans... must work TOGETHER... to SAVE EARTH... from a MYSTERIOUS force... WHO watches... (WHOOSH) THE WATCHMEN??

Alternately:

THIS SUMMER - WATCH OUT FOR JUSTICE!!!

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 11 February 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

It would be amazing if the posters/trailers just have the smiley face with "Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?" underneath, instead of making it look too flashy or emphasize the actors too much.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, a teaser poster that was, in essence, a copy of the cover of the first issue w/ the tagline (in English, preferably) would be really nice. (That'd be similar to the Batman teaser poster, actually, w/ just the logo & the date of release.) Or maybe the main characters in costume surrounding the button w/ their costume showing in some way, so we'd see the button and some distinguishing characteristics (blue feet, wings, fishnets, etc.), but no faces.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Or maybe that last idea belongs in the "How to NOT Market The Watchmen Flick" thread.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Christ Almighty, it's the goddamned Watchmen!

― what fresh hell, Friday, 11 February 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Part One of what should be a very interesting interview with Greengrass.

http://chud.com/interviews/1914

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22841

Yawn.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

yay!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh dear, what a rubbish choice. Lucky it'll never happen.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

but nu-Dawn of the Dead is better than the original!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Like fuck it is! (With politeness.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm firmly with Chuck on this one.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

It is, like fuck!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

And so begins the ILCIVIL WAR!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

And twas not even a disagreement over comics that wrought this terrible thing. Ah, the irony.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I shall don the BLACK LEATHER VEST OF NAMOR

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll go kill Speedball. I mean Namorita. I mean Blount.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I stand by my pick for the Mel Brooks version. There have been enough Superhero™ movies now that the market is ripe for a Superhero™ spoof, and Brooks is the master, and Watchmen is the ULTIMATE Superhero™ spoof text (though not actually funny). So, actually, a Brooks-directed Top Ten would be my actual choice IF I RAN THE ZOO.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean Huk.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

PLANET HUK BEGINS

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, ILC shd probably be retconned & renamed PLANET HUK.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.atakra.com/pictures/ebaycomics/magazines/green_lantern181.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

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That picture is very, very silly.

― chap, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961930.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Forest Whitaker in Watchmen? Man! He'd make a great Nite-Owl.

Oh, wait. The Night Watchman.

Never mind.

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 29 March 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

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

two weeks pass...

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

two months pass...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1295071/

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link

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