Who's watching the WATCHMEN?

[Mels_Smileys45]

Any of you guys ever read this graphic novel? If not, go download it today! Its that good. The movie is almost a year away so don't look like a dumbass when the rest of the nation goes all ape shit as the movie nears. Pics are starting to leak and the cast is all set. Are you?


CAST:


Jeffrey Dean Morgan ... Edward Blake / The Comedian

Malin Akerman ... Laurie Juspeczyk / Silk Spectre II

Carla Gugino ... Sally Jupiter / Silk Spectre

Billy Crudup ... Jon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan

Patrick Wilson ... Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl

Jackie Earle Haley ... Walter Kovacs / Rorschach
Matthew Goode ... Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias

Stephen McHattie
Matt Frewer ... Moloch

Danny Woodburn ... Big Figure

Niall Matter ... Mothman (rumored)

Manoj Sood ... The Scientist


WOW! Look at this! Right out of the pages of Watchmen!

The four cast members in bold are the ones I really think are SPOT ON! Some of the others are newer peeps to me so I can't call it. I know Zack Snyder will work has magic with this one. He cant miss!

If youre one of the people who dismiss comics as being only for kids then you will be missing out on one great book. Im not realy into super hero's but this story seems to really tell what people would do if they had super powers. Pick it up for youself

I wonder how long this movie will be. I hope its long enough to bring up all the sub plots and do this story justice. Eveyone who has been a fan of the 12 issue series has been waiting sooooo long it has to be done right. Zack, im so glad the picked Zack. The only other person I would want to do it would be Peter Jackson. These two guys seem to have mastered the art of CGI film making. All others just seem plastic (hulk).

[cerebus]

Terry Gilliam quit that project 20 years ago because "Reducing [the story] to a two or two-and-a-half hour film [...] seemed to me to take away the essence of what Watchmen is about". But what does Gilliam know, the director of 300 will probably pull it off just fine.

They'll just buttfuck it until it's just a mediocre action film, like they did with V...

[Mels_Smileys45]

Post pics if you find em!

[wingnut2600]

I really wonder how this comic would have turned out if Moore had been allowed to use the Charlton characters in this comic... Would Captain Atom be as cool as Dr. Manhattan? Or would Vic Sage have been able to drive the story like Rorschach?

Obviously it would have been cool for Nite Owl to have been the Blue Beetle though...

[Sparky9]

i own 1st edition copies of the graphic novels
i doubt the film will be as good, but i'll download it anyway

[Mels_Smileys45]

I really wonder how this comic would have turned out if Moore had been allowed to use the Charlton characters in this comic... Would Captain Atom be as cool as Dr. Manhattan? Or would Vic Sage have been able to drive the story like Rorschach?

Obviously it would have been cool for Nite Owl to have been the Blue Beetle though...

I wouldnt like to see those characters replaced as it all works well in the universe Moore constructed. IMO, Rorschach is one of the best characters ever. When he tells the prisoners how it is will be one of the best scenes of any comic movie

[wingnut2600]

I wouldnt like to see those characters replaced as it all works well in the universe Moore constructed. IMO, Rorschach is one of the best characters ever. When he tells the prisoners how it is will be one of the best scenes of any comic movie

I don't think the story would have been able to be told in the manner it was if he had used those characters, but the changes would have been fascinating. Rorschach and the Question are completely different. Kovacs is insane, and Sage is a journalist. Captain Atom has atomic powers, but is not able to transform things like Manhattan...

Of course Sage and Kord are now dead (okay, Kord is alive for the time being, but he will be dead again soon) and Atom is now Monarch again (who would have guessed that back in 1991 when the end of Armageddon 2001 leaked and they edged in Hawk?). Maybe DC should have just allowed him to fuck them up? They have done a pretty good job of doing that over the past 25 years.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Okay, anyone who has went to see the Dark Knight now knows why I am so excited to finally see this graphic novel being made. Check out the TRAILER .


Wow wee wow wee wow!


The graphic novel has been online for along time. Pick it up TODAY! You must read this before you see it. There is no way they will be able to cram that whole story into a movie so read it before the surprises are spoiled!

[Mels_Smileys45]

Seeing the part where Dr. Manhattan builds his home on mars gives me goose bumps every time! I never imagined how this could be done, before CGI of course. Now it looks like the translation to the big screen is spot on!

I wish I could have been at the Dark Knight opening night showing. I beet the geeks went crazy when they showed this clip.

[cheapprick]

I don't think the story would have been able to be told in the manner it was if he had used those characters, but the changes would have been fascinating. Rorschach and the Question are completely different. Kovacs is insane, and Sage is a journalist. Captain Atom has atomic powers, but is not able to transform things like Manhattan...

Of course Sage and Kord are now dead (okay, Kord is alive for the time being, but he will be dead again soon) and Atom is now Monarch again (who would have guessed that back in 1991 when the end of Armageddon 2001 leaked and they edged in Hawk?). Maybe DC should have just allowed him to fuck them up? They have done a pretty good job of doing that over the past 25 years.

If you watch the portrayal of The Question in the Justice League International cartoons you get a taste of how that character could have been shaped in that direction. Kord for his part, sans the Justice League laugh-track years, was Owlman. I can even see them working the Captain Atom angle pretty easy. Eve Eden? Not so much.

What I don't see is how D.C comics stays viable. Batman, sometimes Superman and at various times the Justice League/Suicide Squad. 3 titles work picking up. I think the current problem is that their roster of writers grew up only watching professional wrestling and have a limited ability to come up with a compelling story.

[Mels_Smileys45]

DC still publishes Vertigo comics which has turned into a movie house also. While Hellblazer didn't set the world on fire, it should have its a great series, DC is the corner stone of comics. I don't read comics much but I still Like Vertigo titles. Horror has always been my forte. Ive been a fan of Alan Moore every since I read his turn in Swamp Thing. He turned comics on its edge with that series. I picked up Watchmen because of his name alone and was not disappointed. I've read it like 4 or 5 times. Amazing is all I can say. The movie looks really flashy which is not in my taste but its sure to please today's audiences. As long as the story survives intact I'll be happy. Judging from the trailer it looks like panels right out of the comic with amazing CGI. Nothing wrong with that. I can't wait!



Official site



Watchmen: Movie Stills to Comic Panels Comparison

There are some cool shot there!





Watchmen Movie Trailer Dissected, Compared to Comic Panelsl

[serbitar]

The trailer makes me want to read the comics.

[wingnut2600]

I watched the trailer like 6 times... I love the little details, like the smiley face on the Comedian's lapel flashing into the light as he is thrown through the window. The Comedian and Rorschach are fucking perfect, period.

I have my doubts about the story translated to anything less than 4 hours, but the look is dead-on beautiful.

[Mels_Smileys45]

I watched the trailer like 6 times... I love the little details, like the smiley face on the Comedian's lapel flashing into the light as he is thrown through the window. The Comedian and Rorschach are fucking perfect, period.

I have my doubts about the story translated to anything less than 4 hours, but the look is dead-on beautiful.

What about those stills of Dr. Manhattan floating through the Army base? I wonder how long they spend in this time frame? One thing about comics, they can be shoe horned into a movie much better than a novel. Comics already being a visual medium helps. A lot of the story can be conveyed outside of the text. So far its looking spot on.

[moneoa]

i think this will be a groundbreaking film in story telling much like sin city was when
Miller and Rodriguez blew my fucking mind with that comic to movie translation