Watching the watchmen

Gmanx · Nov 2007

A friend just sent me this link with a few shots from the Watchmen movie New York back-lot set. I think that may be Rorschach in the last shot...

It's looking good so far.

pliang · Nov 2007

Cool...the pawn shop scene seems particularly familiar...

Mark Dygert · Nov 2007

Who watches the Watchmen indeed... That has to be Rorsharch.

MoP · Nov 2007

Cool, those scenes look perfect.

Mishra · Nov 2007

who is that playing the spectre and nite owl? spectre looks familiar. (assuming that's them at the bus stop)

looking forward to this huge amounts, so far they have the visuals down at least, here's hoping they don't fuck it up

Steve Schulze · Nov 2007

Nice... but I still don't think its really possible to make a Watchmen movie that stays true to the comic. Hell they screw up simple comic book characters 90% of the time. How are they going to go with something as dense and mature as the Watchmen.

FearMe · Nov 2007

My only hope is that because the Watchmen is such an adult oriented series, production will be wise enough not to attempt to dumb things down for a pre-teen market (Spiderman anyone?).

Gmanx · Nov 2007

Regarding the film being dumbed down, I don't think this is really an 'action figure' tie in for the studio, like Spiderman, X Men and others. The characters aren't strong enough (brand wise) for that, so they'd be better targeting the twenty somethings, the 'Minority Report' audience and making it a more intellectual sci-fi pic. We can only hope so, anyway.

Asherr · Nov 2007

just look what happened to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...

Gmanx · Nov 2007

Dammit.. I'd almost purged my memory of that fecking travesty...

You raise a valid point though - the filmmakers could futz with the characters and plot as much as they liked, since they're not that well established in popular culture. (Not as well as the major Marvel/DC ones anyways).

What we've got so far visually looks the part..

Mishra - here's the major cast list.

Pedro Amorim · Nov 2007

what's this watchmen you speak about?
some sort of comic book stuff?
not related with this.

spacemonkey · Nov 2007

whos watching the watchmen?

The3DGuy · Nov 2007

my guess is that if you think they did a good job staying faithful with 300, you will probably enjoy Watchmen.

Still think this would be better done as a HBO miniseries or something

Gmanx · Nov 2007

Watchmen is a 12 issue miniseries comic from twenty years ago (which I read when it first appeared) It was one of the first 'graphic novel' style books and was the only one to receive a Hugo award. It had (has) a fantastic storyline and visual style. The wikipedia entry has more.

Gmanx · Nov 2007

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Still think this would be better done as a HBO miniseries or something

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TomDunne · Nov 2007

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my guess is that if you think they did a good job staying faithful with 300, you will probably enjoy Watchmen.

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Yup, you gotta respect what Zach Snyder did with 300. No reason to think he won't treat Watchmen just as seriously.

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Still think this would be better done as a HBO miniseries or something

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Yup again. There's no way they can fit the entirety of Watchmen into a two hour film without cutting a lot of the background material. Still, I'm fine with that if the end product is entertaining. Trying to copy a book or graphic novel scene-for-scene is kind of ridiculous anyway, the medium doesn't lend itself to that.

The3DGuy · Nov 2007

edited for misunderstanding

Gmanx · Nov 2007

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So you think Watchmen as a 2 hour movie is better suited then a miniseries where each episode could focus on each chapter?

so you QFT. thank you and goodnight.

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Quoted For Truth - Means I totally agree with you...

The3DGuy · Nov 2007

oh sorry, thought you meant quit fucking talking...

Gmanx · Nov 2007

Haha.. Damn these TLA's (three letter acronyms). The only downside with a HBO mini-series is that we in the UK would probably get it a year late.. And because I don't have Sky TV, I'd have to wait for the DVD release a year after that. Bugger.

Jay Evans · Dec 2007

I know nothing of Watchmen, but that NY set looks awesome. It says its in Vancouver. Anyone know where in Vancouver?

Watching the watchmen

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