Watchmen takes New York Comic Con; what we saw

[fulltimer56]

I know that I'm looking forward to seeing this movie! I know there was someone going to the New York Comic Con so maybe they will post about it too. I will be going in to see this, not really knowing the story on it because I read this comic back when it FIRST came out and I don't know about anyone else but my memery ain't what it use to be!!! #oldie# I have the GN but ain't going to look at it until AFTER the movie!

What do y'all think about it?

Linda




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A whole lot of fans were watching the Watchmen on Saturday at the Warner Brothers panel at New York Comic-Con, where the studio screened some footage from Zack Snyder's upcoming adaptation. The largest panel crowd of the day showed up to screen the first 18-minutes of Zack Snyder's upcoming film of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel.
(Possible spoilers ahead!)

Watchmen artist and co-creator Dave Gibbons was greeted onstage to huge applause as he introduced the beginning of the much-anticipated film.

The footage remained largely the same as what was previewed to press, including SCI FI Wire, last October, with two important additions. Directly after the main title credits, a new scene with Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) discovering the Comedian's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) secret arsenal played out.

Another new sequence immediately followed portraying a now incarcerated Rorschach dealing with a fellow prisoner who tried to shank him. After uttering the iconic line from the graphic novel, "You all think I'm locked inside here with you. But you're all locked in here with me!" the panel audience voiced its enthusiastic approval.

After the screening, Gibbons fielded questions from the audience, with highlights including the artist's confirmation that Snyder is indeed changing the film's ending so that it doesn't reflect the book's climax (which featured a "McGuffin" plot device in the form of a giant squid). Gibbons defended the change as a necessary adaptation from one medium to another.

He did not defend the talk of a possible onscreen sequel should Watchmen prove to be a hit. Gibbons said flatly, "You won't see me at a comic convention in the future talking about a prequel or sequel, and my feeling is you won't see Zack Snyder talking about it either. My feeling is leave well enough alone."

The other juicy revelation came when Gibbons confirmed that at one point in Watchmen's cinematic development Joel Silver intended to produce the film with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Manhattan. Watchmen opens in theaters on March 6.

http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/watchmen-takes-new-york-comic-con-what-we-saw.php

[Scarecrow1983]

Jackie Earle Haley is probably my favorite kid actors. If you don't remember him well check out the original Bad News Bears, Damnation Alley and Breaking away back in the 1970s. He was the long haired kid that played loner roles and usually an atitude to boot. I read that he kinda went out of acting in the 1990s until sometime in the middle of 2000. I believe it was due to the era of the time (you didn't have to act, just be good-looking era :cool:). I'm glad to see that he's got one of the leading roles in the Watchmen movie (Rorschach), which I hope will lead him to more roles in the future. I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie and hope it lives up its billing.

[marvelguy]

Jackie Earle Haley is probably my favorite kid actors. If you don't remember him well check out the original Bad News Bears, Damnation Alley and Breaking away back in the 1970s. He was the long haired kid that played loner roles and usually an atitude to boot. I read that he kinda went out of acting in the 1990s until sometime in the middle of 2000. I believe it was due to the era of the time (you didn't have to act, just be good-looking era :cool:). I'm glad to see that he's got one of the leading roles in the Watchmen movie (Rorschach), which I hope will lead him to more roles in the future. I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie and hope it lives up its billing.

I remember him fondly in the late 70's in these movies. I'm glad to see him back in the movies and in Watchmen too. :cool:

[marvelguy]

I will watch the movie as well. I'd hate to see if they ever do a sequel, it's Hollywood at its lowest...

[Scarecrow1983]

I went to the website that Fulltimer56 posted and read the article stating that Gibbons didn't want to be involved in any sequel or prequel. I too feel that it wouldn't do the graphic novel any justice to add another film just to make money.

[jordanscott]

I'm really looking forward to this movie.

When Rorschach showed up in the trailer for 300 I was surprised and a bit nervous.

When the first trailers were released I was excited.

I read the trade every summer on vacation so it's still fairly clear in my mind.

I don't really know many of the actors but I do like JDM from Supernatural.

Went to see Taken with my in-laws and mom-in-law asked about the Watchmen so I lent her my trade. She's read it and really enjoyed it and is now looking forward to the movie as well.

[fulltimer56]

Thought I would add this one too:

New Watchmen making-of video: Behind Rorschach's mask


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Empire has debuted the 11th behind-the-scenes video for Zack Snyder's upcoming Watchmen movie. The new video, which you can watch after the jump, focuses on the character of Rorschach, as played by Jackie Earle Haley, and how Snyder and his team created his distinctive face.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid494808768/bctid10346945001

Watchmen opens in conventional and IMAX theaters on March 6

[toz1960]

This is going to be only the 3rd or 4th movie I have actually gone to see this century.I can wait for TV or disc.

Wanted to take my Grandson to see Iron Man but his mother beat me to it.Naughty,naughty parent#whack#.

[dpxcomicsgirl]

Did the blue guy wear speedos in the comic too?

[pasnat54]

No, Dr. Manhattan let it all hang out. I don't think they wanted to controversy of having a guy run around naked all over the screen.

I'm only familiar with a couple of the cast; Jackie, Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup and of course Max Headroom (Matt Frewer). Patrick Wilson starred in Angels in America, The Alamo, Phantom of the Opera and that one where he has a torrid affair with Kate Winslet. I've always considered him a rather effete actor, with not too much presence. But I guess that's kind of what they want for Nightowl.

[dpxcomicsgirl]

They can have a blue girl running around naked in X-Men, but not a blue guy in Watchmen? Boo!

Couldn't they at least give him some pants, or shorts?

[fulltimer56]

They can have a blue girl running around naked in X-Men, but not a blue guy in Watchmen? Boo!

Couldn't they at least give him some pants, or shorts?

Well, dpx ain't that always the way it works!! It's that old "double standard"!! :D

[dpxcomicsgirl]

It wouldn't bother me, but he looks so wrong in that pic! It would have been cool to have him as in the comic, and just use the appropiate camera angles and such. After all, this is no kiddie story. (oh no, are they making it a kiddie story?) Seriously, the speedo kills the presence of this guy! Or at least make him like the Human Torch or Silver Surfer, who appear naked but don't... show anything.

It's only slighty worse than the bike shorts Doomsday sports in Superman vs Doomsday animated video, althought nowhere near as awful as the shorts in Superman Returns!

[fulltimer56]

Maybe the actor wasn't comfortable with it swinging around!!! :D Or maybe he was embarrassed that it wouldn't swing! #angelic#

[jordanscott]

Or they coulda just CGIed everything in post.

I mean, I'm sure he's mostly CG anyway after transformation.

If they can shoot around a woman's pregnancy to make it not too noticeable they certainly could have done something other than a speedo.

[pasnat54]

Actually, Mystique wasn't naked in the movie; most of the good parts... that is, the parts which might be considered objectionable, were covered by the sparkly sequin things. (I know; I've freeze-framed her sequences numerous times but never saw anything.)

As for a double standard; everyone knows that a naked man is disgusting, but a naked woman is art! And aren't we all happy with that?

[fulltimer56]

"disgusting", I don't think so! No more than a fully naked woman is to me! Remember that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Like jordan said they could had CGIed the actor like they did for the "Silver Surfer". I'm not big on the speedos either!

Linda

[dpxcomicsgirl]

Rebecca Ro was basically naked, painted blue, with plastic pasted on scales covering the essentials. And for character purposes, Mystique did run around naked in all movies. I guess in a way she does in the comics too, unless her clothes are made of unstable molecules and all that.

Maybe the movie will be good, but I look at the costumes and they look pretty awful. Batman & Robin awful. I really don't think that shiny over sculpted armor is in any way cooler or better looking than spandex. It's embarrasing, that's what it is. If it works for Superman and for Spider-Man, it should work for these little guys too.

[Evil Parsnip]

the lovely thing about it all, is that the costumes are largely irrelevent. If the movie is good and the plot properly laid out and followable it will be a good movie - despite possible shortcomings. My fear is that it will be as badly done as the Spirits was.

[jordanscott]

I too think the costumes are a bit too shiny, both in terms of the source material and just in general.

However, I'm hoping for such a spectacular adaptation that the costumes will not be high on my list of things to worry about.

Come on 3/6!