WATCHMEN -The Movie!
Well,it may have taken over twenty years but it looks like the movie based on the comic series WATCHMEN,written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons with superb colouring by John Higgins,is going to be made.
Back in the 1980s magazines and fanzines,including Paul Birch’s FANTAZIA,reported on the rumours of where the film was being made -who the director was-who was going to star as whom and so on. Never happened.
Cool being old enough to remember all this until it dawns on you your life span is getting shorter!
September,2007:Vancouver,Canada,is when filming is due to start. Only actor I know from the almost unknown cast is Jeffery Dean Morgan -who plays the father of the two heroes in SUPERNATURAL.
In case you didn’t know;Dick Giordano at DC got handed a load of characters he’d edited at Charlton Comics and Alan Moore was asked to write the series. Alan couldn’y be allowed to kill off recently purchased characters [now,of course,every single person in the DC comic universe has been killed an resurrected 7676589 times] so they were altered but we know who they were -and there are lots of sources out there for info. If you want a good concise summary try Wikipedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen
Dave Gibbons drew the series as noted and John Higgins’ work on colour was the cream on top of the cream! But a quick story snatch.
According to our movie pals at IMDB,for those of you who do not know [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/]:
“Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity… but who is watching the Watchmen?”
Written by T-Hen
The official and very bare site is:
http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/
Believe me,you won’t learn much there in a hurry! And the cast,as noted,are reasonably unknown.
CAST [KNOWN]
| Jackie Earle Haley | … | Walter Kovacs/Rorschach |
| Jeffrey Dean Morgan | … | The Comedian |
| Billy Crudup | … | Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan |
| Patrick Wilson | … | The Night Owl |
| Carla Gugino | … | Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre |
| Malin Akerman | … | Laurie Juspeczyk/The Silk Spectre |
There have been fun ‘amateur’ trailers for Watchmen on YouTube for a long time such as this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAqfeYvephI&mode=related&search=
And this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwK1hXP8XII&mode=related&search=
One of my favourites is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w14DoxRIXW4&mode=related&search=
So now we wait for the filming delays,rumours and snippets of info!
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