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

xpst

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

(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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Christ Almighty, it's the goddamned Watchmen!

― what fresh hell, Friday, 11 February 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

yay!

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

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

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

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

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

Like fuck it is! (With politeness.)

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

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 (twenty years ago)

It is, like fuck!

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

And so begins the ILCIVIL WAR!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

I shall don the BLACK LEATHER VEST OF NAMOR

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

I mean Huk.

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

PLANET HUK BEGINS

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

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

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

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

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

I have caught the discarded power ring and now I AM THE MASTER.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

DON'T TRY IT

http://www.comicboards.com/gamb/moderator/Green%20Arrow.gif

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

We should annex Comicboards.com! It will be a mighty display of ILC's superiority among comic book message boards.

― Warlock Magazine (Warlock Magazine), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

What, or you'll bombard me with a massive volley of broken links?

xpost

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Two words: LIEFELD CHUNKS

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.atakra.com/pictures/ebaycomics/magazines/green_lantern123.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Good luck with that:
http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74731

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Man lame.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

> not unwatcheable but totally redundant

Newsarama guy OTM

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Like it is - fuck!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also applying that to whatever Watchmen movie eventually gets made.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck like it is!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Is it fuck-like?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Like fuck it is!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

I fit slick uke!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

But 300 and Watchmen could hardly be more different*! It's like hiring Merchant Ivory to adapt a Chuck Palaniuk novel because they did such a great job on EM Forster.

*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 (nineteen years ago)

300 kinda sux. At least that's what I remember. I haven't looked at it for a while.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't this he what did 2004 Dawn of the Dead?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

300 was good, but when I saw that FM included a "Selected Reading" or bibliography that had all of TWO titles, and when I think about the 3+ pages of biblio in Age of Bronze...

― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www1.filehost.to/files/2007-03-14_03/215211_ro.jpg

― chaki, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

That picture is very, very silly.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Watchmen referenced in, er, Slate advice column:

http://www.slate.com/id/2202383/

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 October 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

NOW WITH VOICES!

― Oh Why, Sports Coat? (Dr. Superman), Friday, 14 November 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

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