No wonder Alan Moore is so hesitant to see his work become major motion pictures…
I agree with Matthew Federico: the guy on the right in what’s supposed to be the Comedian outfit, looks more like the third Mario Brother. But that’s still much better than what we’re expected to believe is a convincing Ozymandias getup (left).
Find this pic and those of the Rorschach, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre duds at WatchmenComicMovie.com....
“So this blue guy walks into a bar…”
If you’ve read the book, you know what the above image is about. Looks like instead of toning down the brutality – and let’s face it, two decades later Watchmen is still one of the most brutal graphic novels ever – Zack Snyder is gonna ratchet it up even worse.
(I’m warning y’all who aren’t “in the know” here and now: if Snyder is at all consistent with the book, during the part of the movie when Rorschach starts talking about what made him stop “pretending”, I hope and pray that you have a strong stomach.)
Click here for more new pics from Watchmen, including the one on the left depicting a certain “prophet of doom” who spends his days walking the streets of New York. And if you mash down here you can read an article from a 1973 issue ...
Five weeks from today Watchmen opens in theaters. It’s taken more than twenty years for a movie of this book to happen. And from the looks of things so far, it’s gonna be done absolutely right (which had long been considered an impossible task).
Check out this new pic of some of the bad guys from the Minutemen era…
TotalFilm.com has even MORE new photos from Watchmen, including Dan’s Arctic-conditions costume, the photo of Jon and Janey at the amusement park, and Billy Crudup in a very TRON-like motion capture suit during filming of the destroyed city scene.
And Movienewz.com has up some portraits of several of the characters, including Big Figure and his henchmen, Rorschach’s psychiatrist and even one of Seymour! And yeah, Seymour is wearing just what you think he should be wearing.
So… does anyone know where a guy can find one of those ...
I soooooo want this hanging on my wall right now…
And the Warner Bros. marketing department is being very clever indeed. Check out this mugshot photo of Walter Joseph Kovacs AKA Rorschach (played by Jackie Earle Haley) that’s just been released. And if you head over to the Flickr account for that radical right-wing fringe magazine The New Frontiersman you can find some “vintage” news photos of Dr. Manhattan during Operation Wrath of God, which took place in Vietnam in 1970. In the world of Watchmen, anyway…
The movie comes out March 6th....
Good friend Marco van Bergen directs our attention to this story at ScoringSessions.com, showing us composer Tyler Bates and an 87-member orchestra recording the music for Watchmen. Gobs of photos at the link, some of which depict scenes from the movie. According to the report, the Watchmen soundtrack will be released by Reprise Records on March 3rd 2009, three days before the movie comes out in theaters....
According to Yahoo! Babel Fish that means “Awesome Watchmen trailer” in Japanese. And that’s exactly what this is. But don’t worry all the character dialogue is in perfect English…
You know what’s starting to impress me already about Watchmen? It’s all the details that went into such a broad paintbrush for this, the 1985 of a world that is just slightly different from ours. Like the TV showing Nixon getting elected for a third term, and the American fighter jets doing that “eat me” flyover of Moscow as Fidel Castro and the Politburo members watch helplessly.
This could be the biggest movie of 2009. And it’s already coming out on March 6th! And if I’ve got a clear schedule that day, I’m probably going to see it three times, ‘cuz I’ve waited almost twenty years for this movie to be made 🙂...
It’s funny: tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of this blog getting started. And right from the very beginning I’ve been writing about attempts to adapt Watchmen to the big screen, mostly about how it could never be made. And now, 64 days from today and after more than twenty years of trying to do it, Watchmen will actually come out (provided that the ridiculous legal fight that Fox is now waging against Warner Bros. gets resolved in time).
But while the lawyers hash it out in the courts, check out this Trailer Park-exclusive Watchmen piece with director Zach Snyder. Look at that shot of Dr. Manhattan shaking hands with President Kennedy at the White House: looks positively eerie! Also in this featurette are the scenes where Rorschach confronts Moloch in the kitchen and the whole exchange between Nite Owl and Comedian about “the American Dream”.
This might be the ...
Yet another entry for the “Things We Don’t Really Need But Are Lusting For Badly” file…
For $295, you can pre-order the Rorschach Grappling Gun and Mask Prop Replica Set from the movie version of Watchmen. This thing is scheduled to be released on February 25th, 2009: just in time to have the mask ready to wear for Watchmen‘s release on March 6th! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) the grappling gun is permanently attached to the base (and notice that both are adorned with Rorschach’s symbol). Also unfortunately, the “ink blot” on the mask does not seem capable of changing shape… but as soon as real fabric can be made with heat and pressure-sensitive viscous fluids sandwiched between layers of latex, that lil’ feature will no doubt come to market 😛...
It’s gonna be so weird to finally see the movie adaptation of Watchmen. Ever since this blog’s beginning I’ve been writing about the efforts to get this film made, and usually it’s to share some pessimism about whether it could be done right… or at least done at all. Like yesterday evening I conveyed some concern about Zack Snyder’s admitting that the ending of Watchmen, which he’s directed, is going to be different from the book.
Funny how things can change in just twenty-four hours.
Yahoo! Movies has the second trailer for Watchmen (including high-def Quicktime). And if there’s a single shot in this that’s not in the graphic novel, I’m not seeing it…
Okay, I’ll say that I again have faith in Snyder. That I believe he will indeed pull off the impossible, regardless of whether the squid is in there. Tonally, this looks completely right. Rorschach’s ...
Zack Snyder has confirmed that he has changed the ending for the movie version of Watchmen, which he’s directed.
So we will not be getting to see the “alien squid” after all…
In the past few weeks I’ve found myself wondering what the “squid” might possibly look like translated to screen. And that led me to think that perhaps Guillermo del Toro would have been the “go-to” guy for giving it the appropriate gruesomeness. Now it turns out that the climactic moment of most widely-acclaimed graphic novel has been… altered?!
Snyder did read Watchmen, right? I mean, he knows what the ultimate purpose of the “squid” is, yes?
I am now officially skeptical about how this is going to work. No wonder Alan Moore – the creator of Watchmen – harbors such legendary frustration about film adaptations of his efforts....