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the watchmen film adaptation

silverwhisper posted on Dec 09, 2007 | views: 188 | Tags: Watchmen, Comic books, Check it out, Contest, Movieset, film, prizes, adaptations, Films, movies
the DC comics series the watchmen by writer alan moore and artist dave gibbons was part, along with frank miller's brilliant the dark knight, of what established the graphic novel form as one capable of true artistry in the 80s.

almost as soon as the the series was completed there were immediately rumors of a film adaptation. as a series in 12 parts, i always pooh-poohed the idea of a decent adaptation being done.

yet, apparently after decades of fits and starts, there's finally going to be a film adaptation.

although i usually do try to pay attention to these things, news of this completely passed me by, so this is the first (i think) i'm hearing of this.

anyway, i felt morally obligated to share this. :D

if you're interested, you can learn more about the watchmen here.

ed

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  • Zayda said on Dec 10, 2007....
    Ohhh...interesting.
  • silverwhisper said on Dec 10, 2007....
    yes, i thought so, too. it was, i thought, some of the most important writing in comics history.

    ed
  • CreativeWoman said on Dec 10, 2007....
    I have never heard of this comic.  I will have to check it out.  :-)

    CW
  • silverwhisper said on Dec 10, 2007....
    it's been collected into a trade paperback form that you can find in most bookstores.

    ed
  • cakebottom said on Dec 10, 2007....
    *grins*  I've been following this for months.  I'm very excited.  I've posted about Watchmen before, but it seems not many people on soulcast have read it...actually, I think you were the only one who commented.  As I've said before, I'm not terribly excited about Zach Snyder being the man to do it, but I have hope--he said he's keeping the original ending.  *phew*
  • silverwhisper said on Dec 11, 2007....
    if you don't keep that ending, i fail to see how the rest of the work makes any damned sense whatsoever!

    ed
  • cakebottom said on Dec 11, 2007....
    Exactly.
  • silverwhisper said on Dec 11, 2007....
    i guess we'll see, huh?

    ed
  • cakebottom said on Dec 11, 2007....
    Indeed.  Most of the leaked "potential scripts" severely trashed the ending. 

    I live in fear.
  • silverwhisper said on Dec 12, 2007....
    only time will tell, cb.

    ed

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