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Secret Origins Of Vader's Apprentice And Dr. Horrible
Spoilers can open up your whole world, letting you see the bigger picture — like when you find out how Darth Vader and his secret apprentice first meet and form a special bond in the next Star Wars video game. Or when you learn the secret name of Dr. Horrible, the hero/villain of Joss Whedon's new online musical. And every new pearl of wisdom from the Joker's lips makes The Dark Knight sound more and more fantastic. (There should be a book of them.) Telling details also make Watchmen, Chuck, Heroes, Stargate: Atlantis and The Middleman sound bigger and more fascinating. That's spoilers — the zoom lens of your mind. More »
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Watchmen Shouldn't Be A Movie
All of the discussion about next March's Watchmen movie has focused on whether it'll be faithful to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal graphic novel. But really, they're missing the point — Watchmen shouldn't be a movie at all. It only makes narrative sense as a comic book, because so much of its strengths are tied to the comics format and it's all about the history of comics. A movie version, no matter how faithful, will be empty and pointless. More »
Warner Bros. Fighting To Shorten Watchmen?
Zack Snyder, who's directing the movie version of Alan Moore's mega-graphic novel Watchmen, says he's fighting with the studio to keep the movie as long as possible, to preserve the "core" of the story. And the DVD will most likely be three-and-a-half hours long. Luckily, the 20-minute "sizzle reel" Snyder showed Warners was cool-looking, so the execs are pumped. Also cool looking: the teaser trailer, which may appear before The Dark Knight, and the two minutes we'll see at Comic-Con. And Nite Owl's ship, which may be at Comic-Con. Image from Film1. [Collider]
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300-style Vegas Zombies: Tonight We Gamble In Hell
Zombies infect Las Vegas with gritty 300 style mayhem, in Army of The Dead. The movie is set in a quarantined Las Vegas, overrun with zombies. A young girl is trapped inside and her father desperately tries to break the quarantine to save her life. Snyder (now directing Watchmen) has found a director for his original concept screenplay, Matthijs van Heijningen (who's only done those zany Stella Artois beer ads until now). Snyder will be taking a semi-backseat as a producer, along with his wife Deborah. [The Hollywood Reporter]
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Secret Origin Of Watchmen's Original Heroes
Yet another sign that Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie will pay slavish tribute to the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic: this old-timey style photo of its original superhero team, the Minutemen. They're the earliest superheroes in the Watchmen universe, and their division is what builds character and history for the modern-day costumed avengers. As with almost all of Snyder's images so far, the picture is a pretty spot-on recreation of the picture from the graphic novel. Starting on the left is Silhouette, Mothman, Captain Metropolis, Nite Owl, Dollar Bill, the Comedian, Silk Spectre and Hooded Justice. [Ain't It Cool News]
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Director Zack Snyder is getting all the time he needs with three chances to tell the entire expansive Watchmen saga on DVD. As we'd reported, there will be an animated Tales of the Black Freighter feature, followed by the release of the actual Watchmen DVD. And then a third mystery project will be released that connects everything. We're looking at maybe nine hours of Watchmen goodness, including extra movie footage.
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New Watchmen DVDs To Tell Black Freighter Story
Director Zack Snyder is getting all the time he needs with three chances to tell the entire expansive Watchmen saga on DVD. As we'd reported, there will be an animated Tales of the Black Freighter feature, followed by the release of the actual Watchmen DVD. And then a third mystery project will be released that connects everything. We're looking at maybe nine hours of Watchmen goodness, including extra movie footage.
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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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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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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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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.
