First before I get into it, I just wanna say you Transformers fans are getting your film next month, Batman fans like me are getting their Joker film next year, Sci-Fi fans are getting their James Cameron new technology movie Avatar in 2009 but for just general comic book fans… Watchmen is king… and it’s very important it gets made correctly.
Snyder says he will begin shooting Watchmen in September in Canada. He has also once again reiterated the fact that come hell or high water, his 300 star Gerard Butler will make an appearance in his next comic book adaptation Watchmen.
“Yeah, we’ll find a spot for him…They’ll let him [off the other sets for a while]; he’s not gonna get out that easy.”
Very interestingly, Snyder said the following when asked about the rumors of offers being made to Keanu Reeves, Jude Law and Patrick Wilson for roles in the film…
“I don’t know who’s leaking this stuff, but they’re good.”
And what is the director working on now?
“At the beginning of the movie there’s a character called the Comedian…He gets in a fight with a guy that we don’t know who it is, and [the Comedian] gets thrown out a window. That’s what I’m working on right now, and it’s pretty intense.”
I love that scene, it’s probably one of my favourite parts of the comic series. When you read those opening panels, the visuals strike you like nothing you have ever read before.
Look for Watchmen to be added to our movie watch page very soon.
source – mtv, coming soon
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I read The Dark Knight Returns, but that was many, many moons ago when I was in high school. Don’t recall ever having saw, much less read, Watchmen, so I’m going into this cold. Personally, I can’t wait to see how this much-ballyhooed work is realized. hope it’s worth the hype. I hear David Hayter (one of my favorite -and best- screenwriters) was the only person to intelligently boil the massive work into a 2 1/2 hour screenplay, so that got me on board right there.
Don’t know if it’ll be enough to go back to a comic shop looking for an old copy of Watchmen though.