Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

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

croupier otm.

Vahid also.

I'm torn. I hated 300 with a huge fucking passion but I think it may have been a case of irredeemable source material, because Snyder's comments about which aspects of the story are important have been OTM so far and most of the cast is pretty solid.

Also, Butler (supposedly) getting relegated to Black Freighter segment = classic.

they're actually doing the Black Freighter? how LONG is this movie?

they're doing it as a DVD extra.

http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/

regular news/rumors about the movie

da croupier, I feel the same way. Those pics are pretty cool though, they capture the squalid, filthy look so necessary to get this story right.
We are going to have to face the fact that something IS going to disappoint us about the movie, and then just go along with it, embrace it - employ cognitive dissonance or suspension or disbelief or just not get our hopes up for something perfect which takes us back to the first time we read it. Alan Moore said that it's basically UN-FILMABLE, and he's right, because it would be, like 12 hours long. We will just make the most of it. It won't be "Watchmen" it will be "Watchmen - the movie version". I'll be there in line when it opens, and I hope that the makers are just huge nerds and totally obsessive and try and do the best job they can.

would be cool if they did it as an hbo series!

i think that about everything tho

I used to think they'd have to do V For Vendetta as an animated mini-series.

I guess the ending will have to be as dark as it is in the comic, or its just basically gonna come off like Heroes.

If they actually ended it at the same point as the comic...nice.

I mean, that's almost my favorite "lady or the tiger?" ending ever. (Though Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana comes close.)

I wonder if they're gonna include all the little details that indicate it's an alternate timeline, like the electric outlets to charge cars, those weird pipes people smoke instead of cigarettes, the blimps you can see in the sky all the time, etc.

And does anyone know who are those folks playing the newsvendor and the kid? They're pretty big roles, if the movie is faithful to the comic.

Emilio Estevez and Laura San Giacomo

fuck this film. just make Watchmen Babies cartoon happen.

still think they should've done it in two parts tho

Boy, Emilio has gone to ruin since Breakfast Club!

but i never realised Max Headroom and the geek scientist dude in Taken were actually the same person until now :o

the makeup fx are pretty impressive!

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