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Get Fired Up For Watchmen With Some New Pics

Mega-classic graphic novel Watchmen sounds sort of like a soap opera when you try to explain it to mainstream people. That’s the lesson I’ve learned from reading Entertainment Weekly’s first big article about Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation. Sally’s mom forced her into the spandex life! She’s trapped in a dead-end relationship with the blue guy,…

Watch How Faithful Watchmen Will Be

Watchmen star Patrick Wilson wants to reassure fans worried about Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the famous graphic novel that everything’s okay; they can still expect a Cold War-era downbeat ending when the movie gets released next year. And now we can see just how faithful Snyder is being to the original ourselves, as the trailer…

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…

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…

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…

Now You Can Watch The Watchmen’s Advertisements

A few lucky European cinema owners are getting a chance to view exclusive footage from the upcoming Watchmen movie at this year’s cinema expo. Now the rest of us can do the same online – kind of. Under the jump: Glimpses of what you can see in next year’s superhero movie of the summer, if…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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]

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. In the 12-issue series, occasional panels are devoted to a young boy sitting next to a newstand, reading a comic book about pirates…

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.