A judge in the USA has decided to have the case between Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox about the Watchmen Film heard on January the 6th 2009. 20th Century Fox are suing on the basis that they ahve the rights to make the movie and that Warner Bros have breached this by making their version.
Oh well. I guess where there’s money there are law suits - esp. when the amounts of money the watchmen Movie is likely to generate are considered. 20th Century Fox had spent over $1 million developing the movie before it got shelved.
Just quick update post to say that the official trailer for the new Watchmen film has been released. Apparently it’s showing during the trailers for the new BatMan movie - “The Dark Knight” (which I’m going to see on Saturday).
Woo Hoo. The build up to the new watchmen movie is beginning apace now with the early bird retailers stocking some nice Watchmen bits and pieces. Some of the Watchmen busts over at Forbidden Planet have 26% off!If you want to get more details just click on the images.
Rorschach - Watchmen Movie Bust
Nice bust of Rorschach - I’ll be ordering one when I get paid (hope they’re still in stock) reduced from £49.99 to £36.99.
Ozymandias - Watchmen Movie Bust
Ok so Ozymandias does look a little too much like he’s dressed to appear in “Batman and Robin” - could just be that this bust jut isn’t too my taste. Its also available for £39.99.
Dr Manhattan - Watchmen Film figure (1:6 Scale)
The image aint that great I know. But looks like it could be kinda nice thing to have around my house. Will need to go instore to have a look and make a final decision. Even with 17% off it comes in at just under £58 - which seems a bit excessive (no doubt I’ll be seperated from my cash when I get down to the shop).
Full Range of Watchmen Film Stuff @ Forbidden Planet.
If you want to have a look at more of the cool stuff that they have over at Forbidden Planet click here.
We’re less than a year away from the release of the much anticipated Watchmen film. Something I’m really looking forward to so I thought it was about time to get some of the cool images that I’ve found online.
cool and moody pic of rorschach . Rorschach, myfavourite character is looking like he could be shaping up well for the movie - in looks anyway.
Well it looks like a winner from Flickr, not some where I normally visit but when you see great grafitti like this maybe I’ll have to stop by more often.
The official poster for the ‘07 comicon. Wish I could have gone - but as I’m stuck here in the UK it was out of the question
When I sat and built this thing it was a bit of a whim. I just wanted to see if I could. And now I’ve found that there are so many other sites out there with better looking sites. For this reason I’m going to spend the next couple of days trying to improve the design of this blog - I’m not a designer I hasten to add.
I’ve just got this blog live and I was going to leave these clips for a couple of days but I’m thinking that with all the detritus lying around on the web it’s better to get these clips out now.
When I was far younger than I am today the first mention I ever heard of Watchmen was by Pop Will Eat Itself when they shouted “Alan Moore knows the score”. I had no idea what they meant by this. But a couple of chats with the older kids at school and I found out that the Alan Moore they were referring to was the Alan Moore who wrote parts of 2000AD and who had recently been doing a comic book - no one called them ‘graphic novels’ back then - called Watchmen.
A strange tale about anti-heroes suffering from multiple neurosis. Almost twenty years later and I’m sitting, waiting to find out more about the movie of Watchmen - I’m living in the hope that Watchmen the movie isn’t going to be a let down. I always felt that this was one of the few things that cinema should leave alone.
For the next while I’m going to blog with all I can find out about Watchmen - not just the movie (though that will be a focus of mine) but also the lore of Watchmen, the cult of Watchmen and everything else I can find that sticking on a website won’t lead to legal issues.
Reasonably soon we could all be watching the Watchmen - a slightly disturbing fact…
