Hey folks, Harry here in LaLaLand - I know, I know - 6 days ago I was under the knife - and now here I am after a day of air travel relaxing in my room writing a story about something awesomely geeky cool. If it helps any, I have been having a bitch of shoulder pain - damn co2 bubbles!
Anyway - that's not why you're here. Zack Snyder and crew decided that the day after MEMORIAL DAY was probably the most awesome day ever to remember and to expose some of our most awesome heroes of yesteryear. And I say AMEN to that.
Hey folks, Harry here... Our good buddy over at JoBlo.Com have scored the latest WATCHMEN Video Journal - this time with Costume Designer - Michael Wilkinson - taking us through the periods and looks that they're trying to get across in this epic of a Comic Book film.
Hey folks, Harry here... I just got home from watching the blissfully retarded epic 10,000 B.C. and got hit with a Link to the WATCHMEN all suited up... talk about a refreshing distraction from the cinematic paint fumes I just got high off of. Can't write that review up till tomorrow night - but till then... for something entirely different - and awesome... Quint chimes in below!
Hey folks, Harry here - I believe this is our first official shot from what will eventually be released upon us like a hurricane... WATCHMEN! Thanks to CR for giving us the heads up. Click on the photo to, as Merrick would say, embiggen it...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Is THE HOBBIT the new Don Quixote? Is it a cursed project? Bob Shaye finally works out his deal with Peter Jackson and then he's hit with another lawsuit, this time it's an even bigger one... from the Tolkien estate... technically it's the Tolkien Trust, a British charity that manages the estate.
Hey folks, Harry here... been out doing eggy yaaa shopping all day and picking up the latest Batman collection, DEATH AND THE CITY by Paul Dini... and I come home to find WATCHMAN photos waiting for me thanks to Game Trailers and our reader Tim T. If you'd like to see bigger versions - click on the Game Trailers link. And I absolutely suggest it - there's plenty of easter eggs all over those awesome set photos. Love the ad on the side of the newstand!
They’ve got a heck of a good team over at CHUD these days, and Devin’s been busting ass since moving to LA, breaking some great scoops. He’s been tireless in trying to break stories on WATCHMEN, and this week brought one of the strangest updates on the film that we’ve seen so far.
I’ll be in Vancouver soon to see what’s going on with the film. Hopefully I’ll have something I can share with you after that. In the meantime, check this out:
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I only was able to wrangle 5 minutes with Zack Snyder at Comic-Con, but in that time I made sure to dig for info on whether or not TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER was going to make it into the movie or at least be shot for the DVD. If you've read the graphic novel you know there is a great subplot involving a young man reading a comic-book through the events of the story that strangely mirrors the events going on around him.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know the immediate response is going to be that Carla Gugino should have been cast as Laurie, not as her mother. I understand that knee-jerk, too. I don't like it when they cast these films so young, but hearing Snyder talk at Comic-Con, he was very insistent that the young casting is essential for the storytelling, not as a way to get a bunch of WB actors (sorry, CW now) actors on the poster.
Gugino is perfect as the Silk Spectre and would have made an amazing Laurie, too. But the flashbacks are so important to the story that Snyder is casting everyone so they'll be the right age in the flashbacks, or close enough to it that it won't be a radical jump to shave a few years off.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I was one of the select few who was granted a one on one interview with Zack Snyder. I think Devin from CHUD snagged one as well, but one of the concessions of doing a 1:1 instead of a roundtable interview was that I only had about 5 minutes.
Luckily for me, Snyder’s excited about this project and loves to talk, so I was able to squeeze out a few more minutes with a little conversational final question. Enjoy and look out for the sound-o-text links!!!
Quint: So, you’ve come a long way since BUTT-NUMB-A-THON.
Several sites are now reporting that Jackie Earle Haley is confirmed as Rorschach for Zack Snyder’s WATCHMEN, but I think that had already been fairly well-established a few weeks ago.
The real casting news this week is all about Ozymandias and Laurie. Fairly important roles. And it looks like both IESB.com and Latino Review have broken individual parts of this story:
Hey folks, Harry here... Ya know... some nights, while attending one's post here at AICN - some cool fucking shit goes down. Take tonight for example. I'm sitting here at Geek Headquarters with young master Quint sharing a conversation about Mark Protosevich's THOR script - discussing reading the remake of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remake script - when I get an email from... Rorschach:
From: rorschach@rorschachsjournal.com
Subject: Who Watches the Watchmen?
Date: June 28, 2007 10:13:38 PM CDT
To: rorschach@rorschachsjournal.com
Okay... it was about a month ago that we broke the story that Keanu Reeves, Patrick Wilson, and Jude Law had all been offered significant roles in WATCHMEN. Since then, Keanu Reeves passed on the film, and the stories online make it sound like it was a simple matter of him not wanting to do it.
Not quite. Actually, Keanu priced himself out of the film, and Warner is (wisely) banking on the idea that Zack Snyder and the material are the real stars of this movie, the way they were for 300. As a result, they’re looking for actors, not movie stars. The Keanu stories confirm that we were right about Dr. Manhattan at the time we went to print, and Snyder’s also said in other interviews that we are right on the money about the other roles we’ve reported on. So where are things now with the movie?
A longtime source reared his head today and passed on a few tips about faces we’re likely to see in WATCHMEN when Zack Snyder’s film version of the long-in-development graphic novel adaptation finally makes its way to the screen in 2008, and some of it’s surprising, while some of it isn’t at all.
Right now, there are offers out to three people to join the cast. If the studio’s gotten to the point where they’re officially making an offer, you can expect that these people will most likely make it into the film.
So that means we’ll see The Prom King, Patrick Wilson, suit up as Night Owl. I think he’s a great choice for Dan, and all you need to do is look at the work he did in LITTLE CHILDREN as an example of the sort of quiet sadness he’ll bring to the role.
Hey folks, Harry here... In the not too distant future - I'll be shooting a pilot here in Austin for REELZ CHANNEL - and we're all getting quite excited about it. It's a channel that's going to be sweeping across the U.S. hitting Los Angeles and New York, very soon - and then hopefully everywhere else soon after. Those of you on DIRECT TV know of what I speak. BUT today, it is their Online presence I'm talking about and their interview with Zach Snyder - that's exclusively about WATCHMEN. Looks like we're getting Gerard Butler in an as yet, unidentified part. It will be R-rated and it will be a long film. Wanna know more? Click below and see the man speak for yourself. Here ya go...
Hey folks - Harry here. The web is a-buzzin' about an image that is 1minute and 52 seconds into the below YouTube trailer from 300:
The image seems to be of Rorshach... a major character from WATCHMEN, Zach Snyder's next project. Although - there seems to be some question about whether or not that image is genuine.
That’s certainly how it seems based on the comments Zack “Three Machine Gun Dick” Snyder has been making at press events lately. Some of this we’ve heard before, but a lot of it is news. Check this out:
Hey guys,
Sending word your way about an article I ran with quotes from Zack Snyder at the press event I was at over the weekend talking about updates on Watchmen.
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Well, we called it back in March, but now it's official. Zack Snyder's the man for WATCHMEN. In that article, I hinted at the identity of a writer who was brought in to go throug
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Although I can't publish my full detailed report until May, I had a very interesting visit this week to the editing room of the new Warner Bros. film 300, directed by Zack Snyder.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with more grim news today... It's been long rumored, but now, according to SciFi.com Paramount has finally pulled the plug on WATCHMEN. After reading Moriarty's report upon visiting the preproduction offices, I was more psyc
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
So, as I recently wrote in AICN Story #20,000, I went to London to visit the set of THE CORPSE BRIDE. Warner Bros. flew me over and put me up, and they were incredibly cool about
