I've read it again recently, it's more than comics I think that's really one of 20 th century Litterature masterpiece
I'm still wating for the movie..


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[This message was edited Sat Sep 6 5:52:59 PDT 2003 by jn2]

love Watchmen. i'm about to start re-reading it again.



though i'm not sure it would make for a good movie. or at least, i'm not sure how they would do it. so much of it is built upon flashbacks, plus that tangent with the pirate story... don't know how they'd weave it all together to make it stand up as a movie without being too confusing (or too long).

Terry Gilliam's Unresolved Projects

In interviews while Munchausen was being released, Gilliam was seen to wear the famous blood-stained smiley badge familiar to fans of graphic novel Watchmen. Says Gilliam, "What happened was, Watchmen came along. Joel Silver came along and convinced me there was this 'go' project, and they had a huge budget and all that stuff, and I like Watchmen a lot; I think it's really good. And so I got caught up in that thing, and I was actually terrified of it because it was going to be one more monstrous project. But we went along with it; it was weird, because I was sort of propelled forward because it was subject matter I liked a lot, and I knew I could do it, I recognised that I was about the only person who could do it well, and then I didn't get the money. So I was 'saved' from that one."

Gilliam worked with Charles McKeown on this movie, adapting the script created by Sam Hamm, but producer Joel Silver failed to raise the finance to make this picture. "However, I was contacted by the new owner of the rights in January [1996], wanting to know if I was still interested. I think it's going to be impossible to make as a film, unless you make it three and a half hours long, which most people aren't going to want", said Gilliam.

Maybe that with LOTR & Matrix success now producers will considered this project again

IceNiiine?

maybe it will be made, but it's not actually the length of it that's going to be the problem. it's going to be plot mechanics. the flashbacks and the flashbacks-within-flashbacks, and the tangential stuff that really has no bearing on what's going on, but what makes it an interesting story, instead of just a straightforward look at washed-up superheroes. so many plot threads to follow, that all lead to the same point is going to be a very difficult movie to make.

Never haerd of it love!

Great series!

We need a "Which Watchman Are You?" thread!

subyduby said:

Holy Cow, it's Suby. Where you been? and when did you get back?

from http://www.dvdfever.co.uk...v012.shtml

"WATCHMEN" - Coming Soon...?

Screenwriter David Hayter ("X-Men") spoke to 'USC Trojanvision' (a radio station for the University of Southern California) and indicated the status of the fabled "Watchmen" movie adaptation.

He said: "When I signed on to do my draft of 'The Hulk', and then Ang Lee came on to direct, I was a really hot commodity, and my agents asked me 'What's your dream? What do you want to do?' And I said that my dream is that I want to do 'Watchmen'. So I chased it down, and they said it's been floating around for 17 years, the rights are all tied up =96 it's a big mess, you'll never get it."

"So a year later I sat down with the producer who owned the rights to the film, I told him what I wanted to do with it, and he checked it out and all the rights were cleared up. So the big lesson there for me was just if you want something, just ask... [Watchmen] is very literate and very cool, but I don't think we could have made it before 'X-Men' was so successful. 'X-Men' opened up some more untraditional comic books getting movies."

Yes! Looks like Alan Moore's masterpiece is coming... slowly...

subyduby said:

2the9's is that you? anyways sybudyboo has never heard of anything
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Watchmen was great! Doc Manhattan, Rorschach rules.

Alan Moore is really great.



Okay that's me done.

Somebody please inform me on what the hell is going on with subybooby

I'm sure that it's not her but 2the9's
- I'd like to have the power of Dr Manhattan but without being blue + I ll keep my hair

Fantastic book! if they can make LOTR, Watchmen has got to be possible.

jn2 said:

Don't be ridiculous.

alan moore is a genius

read his swamp thing

shausler said:

Those issues when he was roaming around space were a trip.

ive newer quite read anything like it since


my blue world

shausler said:

Great stuff!

i mean its no little lotta or nuttin but


lol

shausler said:

"Spring came and everything in the world woke up..."

Something like that... You know it Shaus?

i knew he wasnt dead





i knew it!

shausler said:

2the9s said:

Rite of Spring.

2the9s said:

ahhh

you keep your boxes handy do you


i also liked the machine planet - he was a machine swampthing i think, not sure exactly

i was a lad then

2the9s said:

Never haerd of it love! It's cruel to make fun of your "orgfriend"that way
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I dont think this would be something I would want to read, but maybe i need to change my outlook on what interests me and what dosen't!!

JennaAngel said:

If you can read Anais Nin, you can read Alan Moore!