Watchmen Across the Blog-O-Sphere!
Tales of the Black Freighter, trailer rumors, the movies runtime and Comic Con are all on the pages of the blogs all buzzing about Watchmen. It doesn’t get any better than this, as the comic and film world is humming with excitement and anticipation. Follow the links below for all the buzz you can handle!!
In the meantime, I want to address something that I have seen again and again on our message boards: a lack of faith in Zack Snyder. First of all, it’s too late to get worked up about him, as the guy has wrapped shooting on the film. Second, it’s hard for me to understand where anyone is coming from on this. Snyder is two for two at this point; even if Dawn of the Dead and 300 are not your favorite movies or even your cup of tea, there’s no denying that they are well-made films. And most importantly, they are very different sorts of films. I think Watchmen may make clear the fact that there is not yet a ‘Zack Snyder’ stereotypical film. Unless maybe you’re thinking of him serving the material in the best way possible is his stereotypical move.
Alex Billington at FirstShowing.Net…
Seeing this photo gives fans a chance to finally realize that Zack Snyder is keeping the real depth and complexity of the entire story and universe contained within Watchmen. Instead of opting for a simpler story focusing on just what’s mainly presented in the comic, Zack’s implementing every last detail, including going as far as actually creating an entire Tales of the Black Freighter animated film based on the graphic novel within the graphic novel.
Gary Susman at EW’s PopWatch Blog…
That backstory will be further explored in a mockumentary called Under The Hood, a side project Snyder is overseeing, along with Tales of the Black Freighter, a grim pirate saga that appears in Watchmen in the form of a comic book one character reads throughout the story, offering a counterpoint to the main superhero plot. Both Under the Hood and Black Freighter will be released on DVD at the time of Watchmen’s big-screen release next March. That’s not quite the same thing as being able to enjoy these stories and refer back to them while reading the main Watchmen story, as you can with the graphic novel, but it’s pretty close. Props to Snyder for trying to replicate as closely as possible the rich and allusive experience of reading the book — and to Warner Bros. for letting him do so.
