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The Watchmen Battle Continues
I am sure that by now everyone knows all of the headache going on with the new Warner Bros / 20th Century Fox film, Watchmen. If you donât know what is going on, it is basically a copyright battle between FOX and WB. Fox wants to delay the March...
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Watchmen Release update
It's like the world is watching the Watchmen (2008) today with the arrival of a pretty juicy Japanese trailer for the movie and the news that a ruling regarding the movie's release date will come on Jan. 20.
In court papers filed Monday with U.S. D...
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Watchmen Trailer and Video Journal released!!
With all of the negative press around the lawsuit between Warner Brothers and Fox studios, I think the smartest thing they have done for this incredible looking film, is to release a few more tidbits for us.Watchmen is supposedly coming to theater...
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Summary
Premiere: March 6, 2009In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.
Type: Movie
Genres/Tags: Movie-Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Fantasy, Movie-New-Release
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Patrick Wilson as
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Matthew Goode as
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan as
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Malin Akerman as
Silk Spectre
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Watchmen is an upcoming 2009 American film that adapts Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 comic book limited series Watchmen. Directed by Zack Snyder, the film adaptation stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie and Carla Gugino. Set in an alternate 1985, the film follows a group of former vigilantes as war begins to break out between the United States and the Soviet Union. The film began shooting in Vancouver in September 2007 for release on March 6, 2009. Like his previous film 300, Snyder closely modeled his storyboards on the comic, but unlike 300, he chose not to shoot all of Watchmen using chroma key and opted for more sets.
Following the series' publication, the film adaptation was mired in development hell. Producer Lawrence Gordon began developing the project at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. with producer Joel Silver and director Terry Gilliam, the latter eventually deeming the complex novel unfilmable. During the 2000s, Gordon and Lloyd Levin collaborated with Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures to produce a script by David Hayter (who set it in modern times). Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass were attached to Paramount's project, before it was canceled over budget disputes. The project returned to Warner Bros., where Snyder was hired to direct (Paramount remained as international distributor). Fox is now suing Gordon for failing to pay a buy-out in 1991, which enabled him to develop the film at the other studios.
A DVD based on elements of the Watchmen universe will be released; it will include an animated adaptation of the comic Tales of the Black Freighter within the story, starring Gerard Butler, and the documentary Under the Hood, detailing the older generation of superheroes from the film's back-story. An extended edition of the film, with Tales of the Black Freighter interspersed through the main storyline in a manner reminiscent of the comic, is also possible.
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