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io9 Analyzes Three Leaked Scripts for Watchmen

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 »

10:45 AM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Kevin Kelly
2,562 views, 22 comments

Latest by lhl: Reading drafts of all three, I'd have to agree that Hamm's script is a complete trainwreck and that Hayter and Tse's versions are actually pretty good. Hayter did the seemingly impossible by creating a structure that is actually both more »