'Watchmen' movie... and videogame...

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thecatamites

#1 February 03, 2008, 11:54:40 pm

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Yep, production has begun on a movie version of Alan Moore/Dave Gibbon's "Watchmen". It's scheduled for release in 2009, and is directed by Zack '300' Snyder. Other interesting pieces of information include:

- The part of Doctor Manhattan was originally pencilled in for Keanu Reeves.

- The script apparantly takes some liberties with the original book: The first draft apparantly had a 'happier' ending, whereas the current draft apparantly wants to keep the 'spirit' of the original. To that end, they've replaced the genetically-engineered living bomb with a giant laser from space .

- The script also is more action oriented. One reviewer of the script, at http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=27 said that "In [writer ][/writer]’s draft we see Rorschach, the crazy vigilante, fighting cops in almost every single scene that he’s in. Dr. Manhattan, the only character with real superpowers, teleports out of conversations to stop Islamic terrorists from nuking the Port of Long Beach. It’s like someone told Tse to include an action scene every seven or eight pages".

- Also in the works is a Watchmen videogame.

- I am not making any of this shit up. Look up the wikipedia article if you want.

Anyway, I'm off to run through the streets shrieking in pain and rage... Feel free to post your horrified/nauseated/shocked reactions.

Last Edit: February 03, 2008, 11:59:01 pm by thecatamites

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Kaworu

#2 February 03, 2008, 11:56:11 pm

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So they've taken watchmen... and turned it into the same crap they turn all Moore's comics into on the big screen.

no suprise there!

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#3 February 04, 2008, 12:30:55 am

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where'd you get the script parts? like, I'm not finding THAT on the wiki article. are you sure this isn't an old script?

because that sounds REALLY incompetent.

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pburn

#4 February 04, 2008, 12:40:35 am

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Shouldn't this go to Film Media?

I went to the Watchmen panel at Comic-Con and got the first Watchmen movie poster too.

Personally, I think Zack Snyder really knows what he's doing. He made 300 into a very profitable and entertaining film, even if it's shit or not. I'm very dissapointed at the fact that DAVID HAYTER has no role in this movie. I'm a Hayter fan, and this was his dream project until Mr. Snyder came by. Alan Moore gave his script an extra seal of approval so I don't understand why he decided not to use it.

Go Watchmen go.

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#5 February 04, 2008, 09:35:39 am

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I wanted David Hayter to be involved too, but oh well. Now we can just cling to the dream that he'll be in Metal Gear Solid (please be Solid Snake oh god please)

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jamie

#6 February 04, 2008, 12:46:22 pm

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man i really liked watchmen and i don't have much confidence that this won't turn out to be a piece of flashy commerical shit

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thecatamites

#7 February 04, 2008, 07:34:52 pm

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Quote from: crushed by a CaRRot CuSine on February 04, 2008, 12:30:55 am

where'd you get the script parts? like, I'm not finding THAT on the wiki article. are you sure this isn't an old script?

because that sounds REALLY incompetent.

At the bottom of the wiki article, there's some links to reviews of the script...

Seriously, am I the only one who finds this beyond depressing? I mean, Doctor Manhattan blowing up terrorists? Random fight scenes stuck into the movie to better sell it to the important 'slack-jawed moron' market? A videogame?
I mean, if they even pretended to be trying to do a good job on it, I wouldn't mind so much... I've grown to accept the fact that movie adaptions of stuff I like are almost guaranteed to suck... But it's like they're not even trying here. It's just going to be another glossy, mindless, CGI-loaded piece of action movie fluff...

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Kaworu

#8 February 04, 2008, 08:10:59 pm

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Quote from: thecatamites on February 04, 2008, 07:34:52 pm

Seriously, am I the only one who finds this beyond depressing?

Quote from: Kaworu on February 03, 2008, 11:56:11 pm

So they've taken watchmen... and turned it into the same crap they turn all Moore's comics into on the big screen.

no suprise there!

Quote from: real_jamicus on February 04, 2008, 12:46:22 pm

man i really liked watchmen and i don't have much confidence that this won't turn out to be a piece of flashy commerical shit

Yes... Yes you are.

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#9 February 10, 2008, 11:23:10 am

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Motherfuckers.

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HL

#10 July 18, 2008, 02:32:45 pm

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=zcuicYUScVw

Full trailer.

Watch it while it is still thereeee

It looks surprisingly...REALLY REALLY GOOD.

Last Edit: July 18, 2008, 02:35:45 pm by HL

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PTizzle

#11 July 18, 2008, 02:59:15 pm

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That trailer actually looked pretty sweet. I was really apprehensive about the movie since I dunno how they'd do it justice but I'm keen now! It'll probably be style over substance but apparently it's gonna be long so they should be able to fit a fair bit of content into it.

And Psyburn, isn't David Hayter helping write the script or something?

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jamie

#12 July 18, 2008, 03:10:05 pm

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bleh. it looks like it could be all right from that trailer, i mean they have to play up the stupid parts in trailers so who knows. i am not encouraged by "From The Visionary Director Of...300", but again whatever! the choice of music was more brooding and slow than it could have been, too, so yeah i will probably see this but i'm not really anxious to do so.

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#13 July 18, 2008, 03:28:22 pm

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Visionary director of 300 haha. It doesn't look as bad as I thought it would be but I'm still putting my chips on bad.

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Niitaka

#14 July 18, 2008, 09:43:44 pm

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I don't know, I liked how the music was so brooding! It would've been bad if you had a generic action flick track.

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Beasley

#15 July 18, 2008, 10:12:36 pm

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what is that? smashing pumpkins? man that made the trailer like 80 times better

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#16 July 18, 2008, 10:30:25 pm

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Yeah what song is that?

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pburn

#17 July 18, 2008, 11:24:52 pm

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Quote from: PTizzle on July 18, 2008, 02:59:15 pm

And Psyburn, isn't David Hayter helping write the script or something?

No. He's only credited because he wrote a screenplay.

I like the trailer, it's kinda cool. Mainly because it was very very well cut. I love that shot when they stretch out the flag to the music and they show the Comedian. My main complaint is that everything is in slow motion. Also Rorschauch's voice is not near as badass as the way Alan Moore does it.

The song is 'Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning' is the End is the Beginning from the Batman & Robin soundtrack.

I remember yelling "WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN" in the theatre really loud but no one knew what I was talking about.................

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#18 July 19, 2008, 02:09:47 am

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Yeah guys, I don't think it looks very good!

Zack Snyder is kind of a hack, imo. To me he has like at the vanguard of the mass of directors that do ONE THING and are totally incapable of anything else, and the worst part is that the one thing he does is completely substanceless. When I saw the trailer, the thing that stood out to me the most is how to anyone who hasn't read Watchmen, it must look really goddamn cheesy, and Rowain, having never read it, agreed. I think it looks like another stupid hollow overly-stylized Zack Snyder movie, to be honest. What did we seee in the trailer? Nothing of note. Some dude getting kicked through a window, and a bunch of other random action scenes. The whole thing looks too BADASS and that is really kind of missing the point of why Watchmen was good and not just another silly comic book about silly superheroes.

Movies like this and Sin City all kind of annoy me with how gimmicky they are about stuff, but the difference is that even the Sin City comics are kind of pulpy and stupid, so the movie was a fairly faithful adaptation. Watchmen, not so much! I guess you can't take a two-minute trailer to mean a whole lot, because like Jamicus said, they play up the stupid parts, but at the same time it was telling enough with that FROM THE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR OF 300........ shit because 300 wasn't a particularly good movie, and this guy seems like the type of guy who thought it was, and who would want to ruin another movie by making it, so that sort of made me think we could expect the same thing out of this that we got out of 300: fucken sweet action scenes dude like that one time he took his sword and just chopped that guy's head off like SWIIISSHH and then turned around in slow motion and was like "whos next???" i give it an a++ would buy director's cut dvd

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#19 July 19, 2008, 02:45:02 am

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Quote from: Psyburn on July 18, 2008, 11:24:52 pm

I remember yelling "WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN" in the theatre really loud but no one knew what I was talking about.................

real jamicus is right dude it sounds like you need to CHILL THE FUCK OUT

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#20 July 19, 2008, 08:15:28 am

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Quote from: Psyburn on July 18, 2008, 11:24:52 pm

I remember yelling "WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN" in the theatre really loud but no one knew what I was talking about.................

Ahaha

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