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WATCHMEN Settles at Warner Bros.

By: News Editor
 Date: Monday, December 19, 2005
Source: Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

DC Comics' THE WATCHMEN has been set up at Warner Bros. Pictures.

The material, which has been in development since the 1980s, is set in an alternate America and follows the costumed hero Rorschach, who is living a vigilante lifestyle because most masked heroes have retired or been outlawed. While investigating a murder, he learns that a former masked-hero colleague has been killed, prompting him to begin investigating a possible conspiracy.

The project bounced from Universal to Paramount Pictures, before landing at Warner. No director or writer has been set yet for the project but the studio is reportedly looking now.



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• Dec 19, 2005, 06:21am •
Why, Lord? Why? Why? WHY?!

Give it the $%#@! UP, Hollywood!

Watchmen is too interesting & intelligent for the drooling masses. There is no way this story could be retold per Alan Moore's vision: It'll be top-heavy with visual-effects and thin on plot.

• Dec 19, 2005, 06:37am •
The only way to do it jusitce would be as an HBO mini series. You could have all the violence, sex, and complex story without trying to cram everything into two and half hour movie.

• Dec 19, 2005, 07:25am •
An HBO miniseries would definitly be cool...BUT a properly done seies of films like a trilogy with each film clocking iin at 2 1/2 to 3 hours would be good too if done with the same care as Sin City. If hey squeeze this into 1 film it will be absolute crap because there is no way to do it justice in 2 to 3 hours alone.

• Dec 19, 2005, 08:18am •
dragon261: Completely agreed. The only way you could possibly give this story any kind of justice would be to do this as a mini-series. Albeit, I think you'd have to do this puppy in 12 parts.

I'm just curious as to how the hell they would incorporate the "Tales of the Black Freighter" motif within the series. I've always thought the parallel between "reality" and the "Freighter" and how the panels worked interactively were astonishingly brilliant. But how could you do it on screen? Split screen? Washes?

Gahh... this project has HUGE DISASTER written all over it.

lracors • Dec 19, 2005, 08:32am •
I would love to see this on film. I'll hold judgment until it is known who the director and writer is going to be.

• Dec 19, 2005, 10:34am •
lracors: I don't care if they have Rodriguez working with Alan Moore (never happen in a billion years) on this film - there is simply NO WAY you could pack this into a movie.

Hell, you couldn't even pack this into a trilogy of movies at 3+ hours a pop. The material is just too dense...

If Warner does go ahead and commission a single film adaptation, I will be forced to firebomb their headquarters. Anyone have directions to get there?

• Dec 19, 2005, 10:37am •
Well, from the Magazine Wizard, it was reported a while back that Alan Moore had some sort of good feeling about who was working on making Watchmen a movie and he kind of supported the movie.

Now, how many times has this project changed place? Too many times so it does mean that it's not looking too god right now.

BUT, we have been showned that, if written well, if it's done by people who loves comics and who want to keep the original feel of the book, things can be done really well on screen (Sin City, Batman Begins) and it might turn out good.

muchdrama • Dec 19, 2005, 12:53pm •
Jack,

V for Vendetta seems to be the movie we're all expecting it to be...faithful to the comic and well done to boot. While I agree that Watchmen is more layered than V, I think a director and writer of proper sophistication could do a film version of V justice.


P.S. And then again, V might utterly blow. Time will tell.

• Dec 19, 2005, 01:18pm •
Hey, don't firebomb bee-ootiful downtown Burbank! I've got friends who work on that lot and they swear they have nothing to do with this movie! LOL!

• Dec 19, 2005, 01:29pm •
Watchmen is just way too complicated for a single movie. While it may be a seminal work in comic history, I can't see Warner Bros. greenlighting a trilogy of movies. The cost would be too high when weighed against the possible grosses and DVD sales. HBO recently spent $1 million an episode on Rome, and I think Watchmen would do well on HBO. I want to see this on film, but only if it's given the respect it's due. Get Moore to write the screenplay.

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