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Release Date: March 6, 2009 (conventional theaters and IMAX) Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Zack Snyder Starring: Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie, Matt Frewer Genre: Adventure, Adventure, Sci-Fi MPAA Rating: R (for graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language) Official Website: Watchmenmovie.com Plot Summary: A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, "Watchmen" is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the watchmen?
Everything about this movie looks amazing. I can't believe how close they've stayed to the original source material! What do you guys think.. will The Watchmen be next years 'Dark Knight' ... or will the R Rating and lesser know characters (and no death of Heath Ledger!) keep this one from being a huge blockbuster?
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Well, we know that they dropped that huge thing from the end of the story, so I had my expectations up, but now I'm still interested, but I'm worried about how they bring it all together.
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I had a chance to go see some footage from the film this very morning as I'm doing a bit of work on the UK release for next year, but unfortunately being a sieve-brain, I forgot all about the presentation I'm in the UK and Paramount are releasing it here, but in the US I believe Warners still have the domestic rights....
I guess I'll have to see it to get used to the idea. I really don't see how this will work on the screen yet. Sure it looks pretty, but there is so many things that get left out content wise when you adopt something like this that the story has to suffer a bit, and that was it's strong point. It's like getting Jim Lee to redraw the series and leave things out.
I watched the trailer on aintthatcool and now I'm so hyped...can't wait!
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Snyder has confirmed Dr. Manhattan's blue dick is in this movie so I must asume titties are too, I find the nudity irrelevant tho, Im more concerned about the big thing in the end they changed, I understand why they did it but its kind of a huge thing for a "faithful adaptation"...
Snyder has confirmed Dr. Manhattan's blue dick is in this movie so I must asume titties are too, I find the nudity irrelevant tho, Im more concerned about the big thing in the end they changed, I understand why they did it but its kind of a huge thing for a "faithful adaptation"...
I know how you feel....but I got to thinking about it, and the idea of a would be kinda odd on film. I'm sure something cataclysmic (sp?!) will happen though.
Im more concerned about the big thing in the end they changed, I understand why they did it but its kind of a huge thing for a "faithful adaptation"...
Your comment about the ending is making me nervous about the movie as a whole. If this turns out to be another "Sin City" disappointment, I'm growing to throw shit at the screen.
Your comment about the ending is making me nervous about the movie as a whole. If this turns out to be another "Sin City" disappointment, I'm growing to throw shit at the screen.
Sin City was a disappointment?
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Your comment about the ending is making me nervous about the movie as a whole. If this turns out to be another "Sin City" disappointment, I'm growing to throw shit at the screen.
I'm not a Sin City fan. It was a let down for me. Here's an update on the war between Fox and WB over Watchmen.
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The film adaptation of Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen has been mired in production problems since the comic was published in 1986.
Years later, on the verge of release, Watchmen is facing production obstacles. 20th Century Fox is pursuing an order to delay the film's release.
Fox is claiming that it never fully relinquished the rights to the comic and so Warner Bros. Watchmen is copyright infringement.
U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess agreed with Fox and said that he plans on holding a trial January 20th.
Warner Bros. is putting up a fight, claiming that Fox isn't entitled to distribution.
Reminiscent of a comic book plot we will have to stay tuned to find out whether or not Watchmen will see its March release date!
Lloyd Levin, one of the producers of the now delayed Watchmen film has issued an open letter regarding the legal drama between Fox and Warner Bros. that's threatening the release of his highly anticipated comic book flick.
No surprise!
The legal shitstorm is all about $$$$$.
As we've always speculated, it looks like Fox sued Warner because they don't want their rival to make $$$$$ from their mistake of passing up the chance to do the movie themselves.
So, here's Levin's open letter, in its entirety. To us it makes Fox look like a greedy bunch of bastards. Can ya blame them?
Who is right? In the Watchmen dispute between Warner Brothers and Fox that question is being discussed, analyzed, argued, tried and ruled on in a court of law. That's one way to answer the question - It is a fallback position in our society for parties in conflict to resolve disputes. And there are teams of lawyers and a highly regarded Federal Judge trying to do just that, which obviates any contribution I could make towards answering the "who is right" question within a legal context. But after 15 plus years of involvement in the project, and a decade more than that working in the movie business, I have another perspective, a personal perspective that I believe important to have on the public record.
No one is more keenly aware of the irony of this dispute than Larry Gordon and I who have been trying to get this movie made for many years. There's a list of people who have rejected the viability of a movie based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's classic graphic novel that reads like a who's who of Hollywood.
I enjoyed Sin City; I've never read a graphic novel or whatever they're called, but watching a brief "making-of" about Watchmen before a movie I went to see just recently makes me want to start.
The boyfriend and I were both quite intrigued and pleased by the prospect of this movie, and it's a shame if it's been delayed. Why not release it and, if the court finds WB at fault, award Fox punitive damages?
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Athena, I read somewhere aparently WB lawyers are advising them not to do that, as a punitive damages battle could last for a lot longer and end up with Fox geting a lot more money in the end. Not sure if its true but its been brought up.
Im guessing the release date stays and if it changes its wont be that long, its in Fox's best interest for it to be released on time as they are bound to make a decent amount of money with the distribution rights they are sadly likeley to win. They are pretending they are more interested in hurting WB than cashing in on their part of the pie but thats just part of the powerplay for a settlement, they are not gonna pass on whats basically free money for em just so the other guys loose their investment.
I really wish a judge would rule Fox only desserves to be reimbursed for whatever they paid for the rigths, they sat on em for 20 years, were offered this current project and responded with a rotund pass, were awere of WB doing the movie since preproduction and never made a peep to stop it from being made. They deserve chum change for being absolute douches, but law doesnt work that way.
Anyway, at least Fox didnt made this movie, with very few exemptions(im thinking X Men) they really fuck up this kind of movies.
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I really wish a judge would rule Fox only desserves to be reimbursed for whatever they paid for the rigths, they sat on em for 20 years, were offered this current project and responded with a rotund pass, were awere of WB doing the movie since preproduction and never made a peep to stop it from being made. They deserve chum change for being absolute douches, but law doesnt work that way.
Anyway, at least Fox didnt made this movie, with very few exemptions(im thinking X Men) they really fuck up this kind of movies.
November 13th, 2008, 12:06 PM
The Watchmen (March 6th, 2009)
I'm in the UK and Paramount are releasing it here, but in the US I believe Warners still have the domestic rights....
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