Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

I think Rorschach is in his mid-forties in the present day of the comic. As are all the other second generation superheroes, except for Silk Spectre II, who's a bit younger.

we will have no more of forgetting art spiegelman's name, ok?

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/10.06.99/gifs/spiegelman1-9940.jpg

art spiegelman
art spiegelman
art spiegelman

Also I am pretty sure this will be unwatchable.

Cue a million review headlines.

pictures for comparison

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/07/25/watchmen-casting-officially-confirmed-early/

this movie is going to tank like nobody's business. snyder will become more reviled than michael bay

LA LA LA NOT LISTENING

snyder will become more reviled than michael bay uwe boll

whadayamean Michael Bay still gets to make huge-budget movies

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but yeah this is all wrong - those guys are all way too young and their inability to attract quality talent is, I'm sure, also indicative of how shitty the script must be

and their inability to attract quality talent is, I'm sure, also indicative of how shitty the script must be

or maybe it's because the studio know that putting a budget bigger than 300's behind this would be rather silly no matter how good the script is.

this movie is going to tank like nobody's business. snyder will become more reviled than michael bay

-- El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 July 2007 15:58 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

My god I hope so! Nightmare scenario - "watchmen" movie is a big hit, moviemakers trawl though Alan Moore's back catalog, "Halo Jones" movie is thus made AAARG NO NO NO NO nO!!!!!1!!

hahaha I eagerly await the Bojeffries Saga adaptation

those guys are all way too young

yep. Especially The Comedian. I do like Patrick Wilson, tho. What was he doing in a Gap commercial a few weeks ago?

x-post -- Orlando Bloom as Miracleman.

is this a made-for-TV thing?

I can imagine this not being as good as 300 (not that i've seen it) due to story complexity and nothing else, but it will probably make more money than 300 regardless.

I never saw League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, remind me why it was such a poor adaptation?

oh god where to begin on the p.o.s.

so where's Gerard Butler?

League was awful awful awful - basically bore no resemblance to the books, added characters, drastically changed others, different villain, different conclusion, different in tone and subtext, acting was terrible, way too much bad CGI, extraneous chase scenes, bad dialogue.

It's not that it's a bad adaptation so much as that it's just a painfully bad movie, full stop.

hahaha I eagerly await the Bojeffries Saga adaptation

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 26 July 2007 16:25 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"The Stars my Degradation" dir. Tinto Brass could be good for some lolz, perhaps.

what kenan said
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Nu-Cruise would have been perfect as Veidt!

My god I hope so! Nightmare scenario - "watchmen" movie is a big hit, moviemakers trawl though Alan Moore's back catalog, "Halo Jones" movie is thus made AAARG NO NO NO NO nO!!!!!1!!

Actually, out of Moore's major works Halo Jones would probably be the most easy to film (that or Top 10).

Zalman King Presents: Alan Moore's The Cobweb

Top 10 would make a better TV show.

LOST GIRLS: THE ANIMATED SERIES

I would so watch THAT one.

A Top 10 TV series would be awesome! Wasn't it even divided into "Season 1" and "Season 2"?

Unfortunately comics-to-TV rarely seems to work, I can't think of any example where it would've been done properly, except The Maxx.

Fish Police!

(j/k that show was terrible)

maybe gerard butler as first nite owl?

they're all way too young nobodies

i got kingfish to admit he watched the blue man group dvd

this will be about as good as the Judge Dredd movie

dude whos set to play veidt is really good in The Lookout!

i got kingfish to admit he watched the blue man group dvd

Not true. My only exposure to vid of these guys is an MTV News report from like 15 years ago, those Intel ads, and seeing their banners all over chicago when I first visited there. Oh yeah, and my station got a review copy of their CD.

Blue Man Group: Why are they so bad and hated?

Was thinking of seeing BMG in Berlin. I'm glad that I didn't now!

OK, Matt Frewer as Moloch is kinda inspired...

Max Headroom Joins Watchmen

http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/

http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/watch-1317_select.jpg

http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/WMD-22648_select.jpg

That doesn't look like a photo of real Nixon, or a real photo of Nixon.

I have to admit, I was fearing a 300/Sin City/Grendel/Sky Captain atrocious look in this movie, but those stills aren't terrible at all.

hey is that rorschach??? xpost

By Grendel I mean Beowulf, DOH!

And yes, I presume that's big R. And the Bernards!

The Backlot

After a couple months of shooting at various locations and on stages, last week we finally made the transition to our New York City backlot. Since the New York City that is rendered in the graphic novel is so particular, it was very important to me that our backlot speak the same language, the vernacular of WATCHMEN. In addition, the backlot needs to function as many different parts of the city, countless store fronts, street corners, alleys, etc. So, with that in mind, we set out to build own own custom backlot here in Vancouver, BC. In my opinion, the results speak for themselves.

Thanks to all of the many talented people who contributed to making this backlot a reality!

Here are a few interesting facts about the backlot:

• 5,800 feet of neon requiring 24,000 watts of power
• 100 unique and custom-designed graphics created for the various storefronts
• 5,000 square feet of custom posters
• Street had to work for 1938, 1945, 1953, 1957, 1964, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1985
• 1,040 feet of 1:1 scale New York streets
• 98,400 square feet of exterior scenery
• 12,500 square feet of interior scenery
• Building heights range from 23'9" to 42'6"
• 10,325 16-foot 2x4s
• 3,600 sheets of OSB (plywood-like construction material)
• 384,000 square feet of foam brick
• 200,000 nails
• 3,500 tubes of construction adhesive
• 160,000 lbs. of steel I-beams support the facades
• 300 cubic meters of concrete
• 6,000 square feet of glass
• 4,800 square feet of plexiglass
• 20,000 donuts were consumed by the construction crew
• 20,000 gallons of water and 3,000 gallons of Gatorade was drunk by the crew

-Zack

I'm impressed by the first still just because, well, hell, there that corner is, there's the two guys at it all the time.

Posters for Black Freighter comics and the upcoming Pale Horse/Krystallnacht show...

I really have no idea how they could pull this off as a movie and keep everything they're evidently keeping (always thought a cinematic version would have be crazy truncated, like basically eliminating the Minutemen storyline entirely), and aside from Jackie Earle Haley I'm not really feeling the cast (had no desire to ever see a Patrick Wilson movie again) but I've read the comic so many times that I basically HAVE to see this as soon as it comes out.

looks like dick tracy