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Help Build Ozymandias' Empire, In Watchmen
You can help to flesh out the dark alternate 1985 in next year's Watchmen movie, by becoming the ad agency for psychotic ex-superhero Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias. Director Zack Snyder says he realized there were a lot of TV screens in the background during the film, which needed to be filled with images. So he's launching a contest for you to create your own ads for Veidt Enterprises' products, including perfumes, shoes and air travel. (He provides logos and animated product images, plus a couple of sample ads like the one above.) But Watchmen isn't the first dark scifi movie to have a contest for user-generated video. More »
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Building the Watchmen Sets Before Your Eyes
Want to see a misguided attempt to build some online buzz for Watchmen, Zack Snyder's upcoming adaptation of the comic of the same name? Then perhaps you'd like to marvel over the construction of some sets and listen to set designers talk about how awesome they are. That's pretty much what to expect from the first "Behind the Scenes" video blog from the makers of the movie, released this weekend. More »
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Should Movies Update Classic Scifi, Or Go Retro?
There are two ways of taking a science fiction classic and bringing it to the screen: You can bring it up to date, setting it in the present day and revamping the characters accordingly, like Steven Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. Or you can set it in the era when it was written, and painstakingly recreate the time and place that gave birth to it, like Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie. Which route do you think works better for movies of classic novels? More »
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You Watch The Watchmen!
The official blog for Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie just released five new images, showing a first look at the costumes for the film's main characters. As with the previous images we've seen from this film, it's obvious Snyder's obsessive attention to detail will make Watchmen the most perfect homage to Dave Gibbons' art and designs you could imagine. Of course, copying Gibbons' 1980s images is the easy part: doing justice to Alan Moore's dark allegory of power-mad superheroes and Cold War paranoia will be much, much harder... especially so far removed from the Cold War. More »
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This. Is. The Black Freighter!
Gerard Butler confirmed that he's voicing the Captain for scenes in the animatedTales of the Black Freighter for director Zack Snyder's Watchmen, in a segment solely being created for the DVD. Last year at Comic-Con Snyder said that the Freighter portion of the book (a comic book-within-a-comic book about pirates) would be in the film. But then Warners later nixed the idea, probably to keep the length down. More »
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Zack Snyder reports that the "20 years in the making" Watchmen film is now in the can, although there's still the entire arduous process of post-production ahead. Given that master-of-space-and-time Dr. Manhattan is bright blue and nude half the time in the graphic novel, post-production is not an enviable task. We just hope they make antihero Rorshach's blots move around via some CGI techno-jiggery, because we need to see roving oil slicks to make us swallow this thing. Snyder posted the above image as a gift, and while it doesn't look identical to the comic panels, it's close enough to the storyboards. Just keep your fingers crossed for this comic book flick. Watchmen Wrapped [Thanks Timothy]
Does This Inkblot Resemble a Pyromaniac?
Zack Snyder reports that the "20 years in the making" Watchmen film is now in the can, although there's still the entire arduous process of post-production ahead. Given that master-of-space-and-time Dr. Manhattan is bright blue and nude half the time in the graphic novel, post-production is not an enviable task. We just hope they make antihero Rorshach's blots move around via some CGI techno-jiggery, because we need to see roving oil slicks to make us swallow this thing. Snyder posted the above image as a gift, and while it doesn't look identical to the comic panels, it's close enough to the storyboards. Just keep your fingers crossed for this comic book flick. Watchmen Wrapped [Thanks Timothy]
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New Watchmen Hints, Plus Batman and Wolverine Spoilers
We were excited to see Peter at Slashfilm striking a blow against excessive spoiler sensitivity with his rant on Saturday. It's not just because we revel in spoilers and wish there could be spoilers for real life, either. It's also because we want the term "spoiler" to refer to only the juiciest and most forbidden info, not just some picture of a monster with a silly head. That's why we're bringing you spoilers from Dark Knight, Wolverine, Torchwood, Lost and Sarah Connor... plus some hints on how Watchmen will handle its setting. More »
One Fan's Watchmen Dream Comes True
Obsessive Watchmen fan Joel Stuber managed to finagle a role as an extra in the movie, in the "Dr. Manhattan talk show" scene. His dream come true included Flock-Of-Seagulls hair, which got mad props from director Zack Snyder. [WatchmenComicMovie, via RRich]
Obsessive Watchmen fan Joel Stuber managed to finagle a role as an extra in the movie, in the "Dr. Manhattan talk show" scene. His dream come true included Flock-Of-Seagulls hair, which got mad props from director Zack Snyder. [WatchmenComicMovie, via RRich]
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Alan Moore Documentary Will Melt Your Eyes And Ears
You may have read Alan Moore's work in Watchmen, Swamp Thing, V For Vendetta, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but do you know much about the guy behind some of the greatest comics of the turn of the millennium? AlterTube has posted a 2003 documentary about him, which you can watch after the jump. If you haven't seen or heard Moore before, you might be in for a bit of a shock. Or, he might be exactly what you were expecting. More »
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Spoilers For Watchmen, Dragonball, Lost and CJ7
Has there ever been a show as leaky as Lost? With the new season starting tonight, tons of info has already come out about episodes one and four. And now, there's another incredibly detailed batch of spoilers for episodes one and two. We also have new info about Dragonball and Watchmen, and new pics from Stephen Chow's CJ7. More »
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First Look At What Watchmen Will Look Like
Zach Snyder's official Watchmen movie blog has already been the cause of countless nerdgasms — especially after Snyder released photos from the set. Last week, the blog rumbled back into life with a look at the movie's storyboards which, if nothing else, act as proof that Snyder's future definitely isn't in illustration. Snyder talks about the boards, and we show more examples, after the jump. 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.
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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.
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Watchmen Movie Keeps It Real
Zack Snyder's Watchmen will keep much of the darkness in Alan Moore's comic, judging from Jeffrey Dean Morgan's angst over playing the Comedian. Morgan, who sports a mustache and icky hair for the role (see photo), has a hard time with some of the Comedian's "morally neutral" ways. There are days that the Grey's Anatomy star finds it a "stretch" to make the rapist and mass-murderer likeable. Or maybe he's just trying to compete with Heath Ledger's Joker angst. [Superherohype]Heavy Lost spoilers, and a new Nicholas Cage project, after the jump. More »
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Black Dossier: Better If You Don't Read The Words
With the release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, writer Alan Moore continues his one man mission to make comics full of sex and violence into extraordinarily boring lectures about classic literature and the importance thereof. It wasn't always like this, of course; Moore's earlier work demonstrated not only a command of the comic medium unparalleled in his contemporaries but also an intelligence, wit and pop-cultural awareness that made books like Watchmen, From Hell and V For Vendetta into enjoyable genre works that made you think. Hell, even the first two series of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were fun enough in their way. But all of those books had the one thing that Black Dossier lacks: An interesting plot. More »
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You can just glimpse Walter Kovacs as Rorschach, walking past the Nixon poster in the third image below. [Zack Snyder's blog, via CHUD]
First Look At Watchmen's Bleak NYC Sets
You can just glimpse Walter Kovacs as Rorschach, walking past the Nixon poster in the third image below. [Zack Snyder's blog, via CHUD]
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Watchmen Comic-Within-A-Comic Becomes Its Own Movie
The movie version of Alan Moore's classic dysfunctional superhero comic book Watchmen continues to move forward, although one key element might be coming to your DVD player before the film comes out. More »
Max Headroom actor Matt Frewer will play Moloch the Mystic, a supervillain with pointy ears, in Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie, due out in 2009.
