First Watchmen Video: REAL Sets Being Built

The long anticipated Watchmen movie will be coming out 11 months from now and it looks like Warner Bros. wants to keep fans in the loop. ComingSoon.net says that there will be a new production video released every month to keep folks appraised of what's going on with the production.

You can watch the video below.

Watchmen Movie: Main Characters Revealed!

From the upcoming Watchmen movie: Rorshach and Nite Owl

Firstshowing.net scored a helluva scoop: The first fully costumed images of the main characters from the upcoming Watchmen movie.

With such a big buzz surrounding this film, I finally went out and grabbed the graphic novel, and as it happens just finished it yesterday, and man, it was DENSE. Not in the sense of "duh," but in the sense of very packed with story/detail on every page. I don't think it's ever taken me so long to get through a graphic novel!

I now understand the high regard it's held in and the reason it's recognized as groundbreaking. as far as I know, up until the time it was published (~1985) all comics were still of the "bang, pow, big superpowered battle" variety. I see now where the foundation for the type of story like Marvel Comics' "Civil War" story was laid. In a way it kind of sucks, as it seems to have been the beginning of injection of the "real world" into comics, which in many ways I really dislike.

More pictures below.

Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: Mar 2, 2008

Hey there guys and gals, welcome to my first Weekend Movie News Wrap Up.

This new column is to try and fill you in on various pieces of news that happened during the week that we may have missed.

We at Screen Rant are a dedicated bunch, but there are only so many hours in the day, and movie news comes in thick and fast - so to try and keep you up to speed, we will now be picking up some news stories from the past week that we missed and bring them to a computer near you!

Movie News Grab Bag 2-20-08

Some quick movie tidbits for you guys and gals, including an awesome look at Watchmen courtesy of a new image, who is playing Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe, news on the live-action Akira adaptation moving forward, and a small bit on Where the Wild Things Are.

First up is this cool image from Watchmen, which recently wrapped production, and is being cut for a release March 6, 2009:

I'm excited about this movie. This image is very cool and pretty much straight out of the comics. I just hope the lawsuit against the movie and Warner Bros., brought on by Fox, gets resolved so we can see it without problems next year. See a higher res version of the image above click here.

Hollywood: A Town Called Sue

It seemed, for a brief moment at least, Hollywood was a place of joy following the writers strike. The writers, the studios and even the agents all seemed to be getting along at last. However, it couldn't stay like that for long. Suddenly there has been a wave of high profile disagreements over contracts, profits and film rights.

Lawsuits have now begun to fly around like cocaine at a party held by the late Don Simpson (allegedly).

First up; the Tolkien Estate have called in the lawyers to see where their profit participation went on The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Secondly, Benedict Fitzgerald, co-writer of The Passion of the Christ sues Mel Gibson over his (alleged) fair share of that films profits.
Finally, 20th Century Fox have (allegedly) decided that they own the film rights to comic book Watchmen and they've called in the lawyers to stop Warner Bros moving ahead with the project.

Sheesh, what a week - allegedly ;-)

Watchmen News

Some of the big news this week is surrounding Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the graphic novel, Watchmen. Matthew Goode, who I have not seen in anything, has won the role of Ozymandias. So far this fits with Snyder’s off beat casting for the film. Already cast are Patrick Wilson as The Night Owl, Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan, and Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach, all of these actors being far from household names. An unknown cast is going to allow the story to shine without being overshadowed by big names.

I like it.