Watchmen

jondizzle foshizzle SG

Watchmen movie coming out, not sure about the details anyone know more about it? Hopefully they won’t mess this up it’s probably the superhero movie I’m most looking forward to.

jondizzle foshizzle SG

Here's the cast list:

Cast
Malin Akerman (upcoming The Heartbreak Kid) as Laurie Juspeczyk aka Silk Spectre

Billy Crudup (The Good Shepherd) as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan

Matthew Goode (Match Point) as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias

Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TVs Greys Anatomy) as Edward Blake, aka the Comedian

Patrick Wilson (Little Children) as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl

Gedanken SG

Well, Zack Snyder's directing so we're in good hands. After all the previous alarming plans to make the script contemporary, it's good to know that he's setting it in 1985 as originally written.

Filming has just concluded, and they're going to decide if The Black Freighter can fit within the movie. At the very least it'll be an extra feature on the DVD, to be narrated by Gerard Butler.

The initial shots look good:

As can be expected, it looks like they're not showing anything of Doc Manhattan just yet.

Hell, looks like they even got the Gunga Diner right:

I got chills, man. Can't wait.

BadzMaro SG

whats that ?? bat man ?

Gedanken SG

IMHO, Watchmen's one of the five best comic books ever written, the other four being:

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
Maus (Art Spiegelman)

Just to get an idea of what Watchmen's about:

- what if America had won Vietnam?
- what if there was a Superman, and he was American?
- what if masked vigilantes actually roamed the streets?

dumbdumb! SG

don't get it

jondizzle foshizzle SG

LOL! Look at the date I posted this and the date I got my first reply, almost a year later...

Anyways, the screenshots look excellent! Hope the Black Freighter will be in the movie as I felt it really encapsulated the overall feel of impending doom the comic conveys especially through the use of the doomsday clock.

Not sure about The Dark Knight Returns being one of the best comic books ever written though...didn't really like it.

Gedanken SG

Jon, given the context of comics at the time, both DKR and Watchmen were groundbreaking works that brought levels of reality to comics that didn't really exist before. While Alan Moore took the alternative-history route, Frank Miller attacked the readers' unquestioning acceptance of how a guy could dress up like a bat and go fight crime, and painted Bruce Wayne as a sociopath. Watchmen was a classic example of Moore's intricate storyline, while Miller's style was more of a sledgehammer, and I'd say both were equally influential on what comics later became.

jondizzle foshizzle SG

Yeah I totally agree that DKR was groundbreaking for its time but I guess after reading other works influenced by Miller's DKR I've become a bit jaded by recent comics taking on similar themes. Watchmen, on the other hand, was unlike anything else, before or after it was first published.

BangHong SG

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