Spike TV To Air Exclusive ‘Watchmen’ Preview
October 20, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Fans eager to see more of Zach Snyder’s much-anticipated “Watchmen” may want to tune in (or set their recording devices) tomorrow night (October 21) for Spike TV’s Third Annual Scream Awards.
According to SciFi Wire, stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman unveiled the new footage when the awards show was taped Saturday evening. Spike will air the show on October 21 at 9 p.m. EST and the new footage will be included in the brodcast.
“We want to please the audience. That’s the reason we do this,” said Ackerman who plays Silk Spectre II. “But there is an added pressure with ‘Watchmen’, because there is a built-in fan base, and it’s an amazing novel. So this [is] something that I want everyone to love, because it’s such a beautiful piece of artwork that I hope we did it justice.”
Ackerman went on to say that fans will be pleased with the big-screen version of “Watchmen.”
“The movie definitely does the script and the novel justice, let’s just put it that way,” she said.
Her co-star, Morgan, who plays the Comedian added the movie will be accessible to a wider audience and those who haven’t read the graphic novel.
“It is a pretty heavy piece of literature, [but] Zack is such a visual director, … well, believe me: It’s a heavy movie, too,” Morgan told SciFi Wire. “But they way he shoots, I believe it’s going to be accessible to people who couldn’t quite sit through that novel.”
“Watchmen” will open in theaters March 6, 2009.
Source: SliceOfScifi.com
Warner Bros Interactive Announces Video Game Based On ‘Watchmen’
July 23, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
BURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will publish WATCHMEN, an episodic downloadable game based on the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures’ film for the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in 2009. Read more
Watchmen Hard Cover Collection Coming In November
July 15, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
The award-winning graphic novel that Time Magazine named one of the 100 Best English-language novels from 1923 to today receives a brand-new edition when DC Comics presents its first-ever hardcover edition of Watchmen.
Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, Watchmen forever changed the way comic stories are told by creators and appreciated by readers. Recently, mainstream audiences have been watching for the Watchmen as the 2009 premiere of the Warner Bros./Paramount Pictures adaptation nears, and this new edition offers retailers a handsome way to acquaint newcomers with the classic mystery-adventure. Read more
Zack Snyder In The Editing Room With Watchmen
June 26, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Got this from Sci-Fi Wire this morning. I hope this means that the DVD will be loaded with extras. – JR
Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming Watchmen, told SCI FI Wire that he is currently in the process of editing down the first director’s cut of the film, which currently runs about three hours long.
“It’s impossible,” Snyder said in an interview at the Saturn Awards in Universal City, Calif., on June 24, where he was honored as best director for his film 300.
Snyder added: “The balancing act for me is, you want the movie as tight as possible for, I don’t know why, I guess so people can enjoy it. But for me, the hardest part is just, when is it not Watchmen anymore? I don’t think that’s a danger, but it’s a thing that I am trying to be the gatekeeper of while other forces conspire to say, ‘No. Length, length, length. Playability.’ Whatever the hell that means.”
Based on the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen is a faithful film adaptation that reproduces many of the original panels in exacting detail. Snyder said that he has been going back and forth with the studio, Warner Brothers, about which scenes should be cut and which ones should remain.
“I’ve lost perspective on that now, because to me, the honest truth is I geek out on little stuff now as much as anybody,” Snyder said. “Like, people will go, ‘We’ve got to cut. You don’t need that shot of Hollis Mason’s garage sign.’ And I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? Of course you do. Are you crazy? How will people enjoy the movie without s–t like that in it?’ So it’s hard for me. I think it’s probably good, because I think we’re going to end up with that stuff in the movie.”
Snyder also said that he’s looking forward to showing the film to true comic-book fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego this July.
“Everyone who [made] the movie, loves the movie,” he said. “I’ve never been around so many people that just took the book [so seriously]. It’s like a yearbook. Like, on the set, at the end of the shoot, we all would sign each other’s Watchmen copies. And we had Dave Gibbons in there, too, and he would draw on our books, and it was just sick cool. And so then you come back from that experience, and you go to the studio, and the studio’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but they don’t love it like we do. Right? It’s like just a movie, like, ‘Oh, we have this movie, Watchmen, and it’s f–king long.’ Like, ‘What are these superheroes? They look crazy.’ So you have that experience. So for me, right now, I’m in the middle of that. So for me to go to Comic-Con is to get a chance to go back to people that love it.”
Watchmen is scheduled for release on March 6, 2009. –Cindy White
Source: Sci Fi Wire
