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Warner Brothers has just released their 10-minute long interactive Watchmen trailer, where Rorschach asks you what you see on his ink-blot test. Plus there's a new Dr. Manhattan origins video. More »
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You've seen the posters, the many trailers and featurettes and followed the lawsuit. But with Watchmen hitting screens on Friday, you may still be wondering what it's all about. Let us try to help. More »
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That would be Dr. Manhattan. Yes, he spends a lot of the film naked; being transformed from an everyday nuclear scientist into what is essentially a glowing blue god with powers and perspective beyond those of normal human beings tends to make you less bothered about things like "clothing," apparently. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5162353&view=rss&microfeed=true Watchmen takes place in an alternate America of 1985, complete with Cold War references like the Doomsday plot and nuclear paranoia, along with more subtle changes. The history of Watchmen's world mirrors our own until the 1940s, when "costumed adventurers" - the book's name for superheroes - started to appear (This timeline follows our world's timeline for the emergence of superheroes in comics). In 1959, an accident transformed scientist Jon Osterman into Dr. Manhattan, a being with godlike power, permanently shifting the global power structure in the US' favor, leading to (amongst other things) Vietnam becoming the 51st state of the USA following a significantly different war in the 1960s. In Watchmen's 1985, Richard Nixon is still president, having used the Comedian to cover up Watergate successfully and repealed the 22nd Amendment to remain in power for five terms; the result, perhaps, of Alan Moore's own political pessimism about then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's successful third election. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5162296&view=rss&microfeed=true This is kind of a trick question. In the original comic, there isn't actually a group of people who call themselves the Watchmen. The superheroes all belonged to teams called the Minutemen, named for Paul Revere's militia during the American Revolutionary War, or the Crimebusters. The comic takes its title from the phrase "Who Watches The Watchmen?" (which appears at various points during the book, including as graffiti in the background of scenes), a translation of the Latin "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?," from Plato. More »
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New stills from Zack Snyder's Watchmen are popping up all over, and the movie's minor bad guys are looking pretty crazy, nothing says evil like a giant swastika. Plus check out Nite Owl's snow gear. More »
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We reported about the great lengths that director of the Watchmen comic book adaptation Zack Snyder went to keep Dr. Manhattan's blue downstairs tasteful yet accurate for viewers. Heck, we've even blogged the almost wang exposing moments where you got to see Billy Crudup (Dr. Manhattan's) "manness" in the Watchmen diaries and making of Manhattan moments. But finally we're bringing you the full Dr. Manhattan in HD no less. Obviously NSFW. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5069201&view=rss&microfeed=true The latestWatchmen journal is out, and this time we get a behind-the-scenes look at the cinematography, and how the team tried to make every scene symmetrical and exactly like the set-up of the graphic novel. Plus new images of Dan Dreiberg as the second Nite Owl and Billy Crudup all blued-up in his Dr. Manhattan green screen-wear, coming within a few millimeters of a full exposure. [IGN] More »
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While Director Zack Snyder is working away feverishly to complete his live-action adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal Watchmen graphic novel, we decided to take a look at the three versions of the film's script floating around on the etherwebs. This project has had several stalled-out development attempts since 1986, and reading through some of these it's easy to see why. Check out the breakdown of the top three below. More »
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