03/06/09The first official image from the director Zack Snyder, a test shot of Rorshach holding The Comedian's button, was actually hidden in the trailer for the film "300". It features one of the director's associates wearing a makeshift mask in front of a composite New York backdrop, and was created during filming on 300 as an experiment by Snyder to establish the mood and look of his proposed WATCHMEN project. Zack Snyder's wife bet $100 against him that no one would discover it, while Zack was convinced that someone would find it almost immediately. Zack won Carla Gugino ... Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre Billy Crudup ... Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan Patrick Wilson ... The Night Owl (attached) Jeffrey Dean Morgan The Comedian Malin Akerman ... Laurie Juspeczyk/The Silk Spectre Jackie Earle Haley Walter Kovacs/Rorschach Matthew Goode Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias
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yea.....i dunno if this can really be pulled off in a single movie.
Ugh... I REALLY hope they do this justice and not turn it into a Spiderman clone.
Actually, I think he'd be great.
Shit is almost untranslatable.
We'll see.
I'm so over Gary Busey.
"hey look it's CRRRRAZY Gary Busey!!! He's just so ZANY!!!"
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............
[2008 ghost bump]It was a shame that day BATMON snapped and killed shig.[/2008 ghost bump]
bitch plaese. this is a job for SUPERUGLY!
I'm not the only person who's likely to say this but the book is fucking genius and is more prescient than ever in a post 9/11 world.
It is slow and the art isnt breakface, but what it did for the genre still resonates to this day.
The Marvel Civil War is a st8 BITE from the Watchmen's Hero Registration Act.
For a really good discussion of Watchmen, Yall should check last months Wizard.
There are design concepts in the layout/panelling that were st8 next level shit.
This book is diff than a regular superhero book where cats can kinds fuck w/ a characters mythology and warp it to whatever for it to sell.
Sin City had the luxury of Frank Miller in the mix. And it went over very well within the comic community. I hope whomever is doin this has the right collective behind this shit.
Hollywood is shooting 45% from the field w/ this comic shit.
That seems rather generous.
...carry on nerds.
im being nice.
Ghost Rider....doodoo
i was a fan of GR and have quite a few of the comics and i have to say that the movie was garbage. im glad i watched it online and didnt spend dough on it.
No doubt.
GR is a cult fav. Shiiiiit they can do Blade & The Crow well but fucked up on GR.
Terrible.
No.
Not arguably, UNQUESTIONABLY.
I am not holding much faith in a movie adaptation whatsoever, And as noted above, you would need AT LEAST 3 hours.
Eggs akly.
my uncle gave it to me when i was 12 and reading marvel stuff only... i thought it looked stupid and put it aside for a couple years and dragged it on a roadtrip one year... it took a little while and then i was hooked...
it is the best comic story ever... and every time i read it, i find something else... the panel construction is just so dense... it is a story that was meant to be told in a comic form and uses every single attribute of comic books in a way to bring the story out in a way that a movie or even a novel could not...
the key to making a good adaptation will be to take liberties in an intelligent way... use the unique attributes of film as a medium the way the original used the unique attributes of comics... however, sadly, what will probably happen is a gross simplification of the plot and a very stupid use of visual symbols...
Sin City
The Dark Knight Returns
The Uncanny X-Men - Days of Future Past or The Dark Phoenix Saga
Alex Ross - Marvels or Kingdom Come
Justice League 200
Neal Adams run on Green Arrow/Green Lantern
Frank millers run on Daredevil - Elektra
Fantastic Four - Silver Surfer/Galactus - Kirby
Kirby - New Gods
George Perez's run on Teen Titans - Terra Betrayal
Cerebus
Legion of Superheroes vs Darkseid
Spiderman - mad stories
Drunk Iron Man story
The New Mutants - Ghost Bear story
Where does Arkham Asylum fit into all of this? I loved that book as a teen but then again I was never as obsessed as you.
AA is good but Dark Knight is way better.IMO.
I have no problem w/ Watchmen being called the "best" but theres a handfull of other stuff i feel that can stand next to it.
Yep, all good 2nd placers.
Really though, this book is just mindblowing, i cant claim to have read all on your list Batman, and i agree that A killing Joke is amazing.
And Arkham Asylum.
shit, i was rummaging in the basement last night and found a clutch of old comics i had tucked away and forgotten abot: my 2 copies of Arkham Asylum (1 still sealed) and my Killing Joke, Dark Knight Returns... God i was such a fanboy, theya re all still in their plastic shells with card inserts.
I wish id kept at it,
I really love all this comic discussion, even though my wife shakes her head.
Batmon, you are the expert: what should i be reading now, that is new and exciting, i havnt brought a comic since, well, the ones i listed above... what am i missing out on?
Dave Gibbons is onboard for the Watchmen movie project and apparently is OK with the screenplay but personally I can't see how they can develop any relationship between these characters in the 100 minutes and tell an epic story too without chopping vital stuff out.
My brother went on to draw for Marvel UK, he's freelance now : http:/www.stuartjennett.com
"Arthur is awkened from a centuries-long sleep in Glastonbury"
- I did warn him about bad acid...
"bloody 'ell! oi've been asleep for centuries!"
Zack Snyder was off to a hot start with the Dawn of the Dead remake, then fumbled up that 300 flick really badly. Considering H-wood's track record with Alan Moore material ( he hates what they've done so much he refuses to take money as compensation for narrative/thematic butchery) my hopes aren't too high.
All that aside, that Rorschach still looks cool.
I bet Hooded Justice won't be in the flick....