http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/nite owl http://io9.com/tag/nite owl You heard that Watchmen prequels were in the pipeline; now take a look at some of the reputed artwork. Bleeding Cool's Rich Johnston has gotten his hands on Joe and Andy Kubert's designs for Nite Owl and JG Jones' Comedian from the Watchmen prequel miniseries, which are being developed under the moniker "Panic Room." More »
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The new movie Legend of the Guardians presents owls as heroic warriors fighting rival owl eugenicists. (Really.) But the owls of Ga'Hoole are just the latest in a proud tradition of fantastical owls that are alternately wise, creepy, mysterious...and awesome. More »
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Looking at all the fan-made poster for The Avengers last night, a thought struck me: Maybe the best way to film the sprawling ensemble piece that is Alan Moore's Watchmen would have been to borrow from Marvel's approach? More »
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We've shown you Ponderosa's... individual take on The Dark Knight before, but now the slash artist has turned her attention to Watchmen, and revealed that never-before-known connection between Sally and Ozymandias. Yes, really. Possibly NSFW. 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 »
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In the world of comics, superheroes - like movies - have sequels. This wasn't always the case, and, confusingly, still isn't; Superman is still Clark Kent and Batman is still Bruce Wayne (Let's just ignore that whole "Battle For The Cowl" thing for now, huh?) despite the fact that they've fought for justice alongside multiple Green Lanterns, Flashes and even Green Arrows. Leaving aside the tricky question of just how aging works for superheroes, Watchmen's "legacy characters" - to use a comic term for superheroes who pass their costumes and names onto others - are each an important part of the world in which the story takes place; Silk Spectre II is the daughter of the original Silk Spectre (Much in the same way that one of Moore's inspiration for the character, DC's Black Canary, was revealed to actually be her own daughter in a ridiculous 1980s storyline that preceded Watchmen's release), while the second Nite Owl was inspired to take up the cowl by the original, Hollis Mason, whose presence haunts Watchmen in more ways that one. 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 »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5142953&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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Zack Snyder has repeatedly pledged that the Watchmen film will remain true to its comic roots, but he has introduced at least a few of his own innovations to the Watchmen universe. A slew of new prop photos suggests that the onscreen version of the second Nite Owl will be sporting some gizmos you won’t find in the pages of Moore and Gibbons’ opus. More »
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Sure, you've seen the sweet footage of the outside of Nite Owl's garage-made submersible ship in previews for Watchmen. But today, io9 takes you inside the Owlship. From the floor at Comic-Con, where all 800 pounds of the ship sat behind velvet ropes, we got a long, loving look inside the steampunky, industrial ship. In this video, you see the cool walls, seats, computer displays, and (of course) the two owl-eye front windows. This is one damn cool set. More »
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Watchmen star Patrick Wilson wants to reassure fans worried about Zack Snyder's adaptation of the famous graphic novel that everything's okay; they can still expect a Cold War-era downbeat ending when the movie gets released next year. And now we can see just how faithful Snyder is being to the original ourselves, as the trailer is online for everyone to view (wait a few seconds and the trailer will play). More »
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In the latest behind-the scenes Watchmen diary from UGO original graphic novel artist Dave Gibbons explains how shocked and amazed he was by the attention to detail all around the set. And so are we — especially when it comes to has-been superhero Nite Owl's study. Click through for a clip, plus a gallery of the old time photos that adorn Nite Owl's walls, showing him at the height of his crime-fighting days. Plus some copies of his tell-all novel Under The Hood. More »
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