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Watchmen movie is looking good!

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Watchmen movie is looking good!
By David Hollingworth
Nov 7, 2008 | 6 Comments
Tags: Watchmen | is | looking | good
“I mean it’s all well and good to say Batman fights crime because of his dark past,” said Snyder, “but you’ve got to think there’s some kind of fetishistic thing going on there.”

The preview was over way too soon, and to say that we now cannot wait until March is like... well, like some other equally obvious statement.

But we did learn a lot more about what will be coming out around the film, and afterward. There will be a game, of course, and an extended cut of the film for hardcore fans. “I don’t know much about the game’s development, ‘cause I was making the film while it was being worked on, but I was adamant it be a good product,” Snyder said when asked about tie-ins. “It’s actually ended up being planned as a download, and kind of short, but I do know that the story is going to be good.”

The matter of an extended cut was actually brought up after our forum’s own Battlefield Gir asked Snyder about how hard it must have been to decide what material to cut and what to keep. “Well,” he said, “stuff that doesn’t really drive the story has to go, but there’s still a lot we filmed. And there will be a three hour Black Freighter cut of the film for the hardcore fans. It’s probably all they’re waiting for!”

We’re seeing more superhero movies on the screen than we ever have before, and they are becoming far more successful. Some might be worried that, with such saturation, that Watchmen will get lost in the mix, or simply not be relevant by the time it comes out. “You’ve got to remember, though,” Snyder said in answer to that very proposition, “that that is what the comic book market was like when Watchmen came out in the eighties. Comic book readers knew all about superheroes, and Watchmen was a revelation to them – there’s been no better time to make the movie.”

We might have been sceptical about this project, but now, we agree with him. Roll on March.



 
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charonis
Nov 7, 2008 1:19 PM
I am extremely jealous :(

Great article!
N3M3SiS
Nov 7, 2008 2:14 PM
Me too, you lucky bastards!

Nice wrap up though, and well done 'Gir for asking the hard hitting questions ;-)
D12017K
Nov 8, 2008 9:55 PM
The more I read and see of this movie the more i look forward to it. It was a brilliant touch with the only spoken words in the trailer being the Comedian saying "God help us all" and then cut to the birth of the godly Dr Manhattan.

One thing that has been bugging me though. Whats Night Owl dropping to the ground and screaming about at about 1:31? I dont remember any scene resembling from the comic. Strange considering all the other footage are almost frame by frame reproductions of the comic.
spiritek
Nov 10, 2008 6:39 PM
I just think it is so funny that music in the trailer is "The beginning is the end is the begining" a remix of "The end is the begining is the end" from the (so called) movie Batman & Robin...
battlefield_gir
Nov 10, 2008 10:49 PM
guess what Zack Snyder drew Rorschach on the inner leaf of mine :)
Mr Faunce
Nov 12, 2008 2:23 AM
lol looks good is that the old pumpkins (billy corgan) i can hear
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