“Please go see the movie again next weekend” writes David Hayter, one half of the screenwriters behind WATCHMEN in an open plea for fanboys to put down their pitchforks and see the movie a second time (or a first in some cases) before casting hateful judgement.
Believing the future integrity of “the adaptation” is at stake, Hayter hints that now that we have come to a place where we have banished the FROM HELL’s and LEAGUE OF EXTRAORIDNARY GENTLEMEN’S from our memories into an era where THE DARK KNIGHT and WATCHMEN can exist, we can’t let it slip by the way side again.
“You have to understand, everyone is watching to see how the film will do in its second week. If you care about movies that have a brain, or balls, (and this film’s got both, literally), or true adaptations — And if you’re thinking of seeing it again anyway, please go back this weekend, Friday or Saturday night. Demonstrate the power of the fans, because it’ll help let the people who pay for these movies know what we’d like to see. Because if it drops off the radar after the first weekend, they will never allow a film like this to be made again”.
Hayter even throws in a “Snake” reference, baiting a possible METAL GEAR SOLID could be on the line if WATCHMEN, as it seems (a shoddy $59 million domestic on a $150 million budget), hasn’t got the legs.
Which seems desperate reaching to me, because the future of a MSG movie more likely rests on the shoulders of the other genres, more accurately the BOND series, than a movie about costumed spandex, emotional chats on Mars and smiley yellow faces.
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I don’t know if i want to see another movie that shows a blue dick for thirty minute’s again with terrible sex scenes.
Drew McWeeny of HitFix.com says that it’s a red herring to use WATCHMEN’s budget against it, since the $150 million dollar figure that everyone accepts and repeats as fact is no small overstatement. I suspect that the money spent above the line on this movie is well under a hundred million, and probably much closer to that amount with all below the line costs tallied on…I do plan to see the movie again this weekend though, to thank Snyder and support the cause.
Evan,
I read that article too and of course he’s right, studio’s never fully release the figure of how much their movies cost.
I am telling you now though, if Snyder made that movie for under $100 million, then he has done a terrific job.
One factor that also needs to be taken into consideration is that 20th Century Fox are taking a “significant” percentage from the final WATCHMEN total.
Although I hope this doesn’t play a factor in future decisions at Warner Bros. but WATCHMEN has hardly been a big money making venture.
Though I do expect it to do very well on DVD/Blu-Ray.