Watchmen update...

[paulvonscott]

Oh, so he was.  I never realised before.

Watched Max Headroom again when it was on a month or so back.  Still love it to bits.

[Adrian Bamforth]

Has anyone ever actually mapped out the whole area Watchmen takes place in? Gibbonds clearly knew how it all fitted together, I wonder if they're keeping to that.

[JOE SOAP]

***Watched Max Headroom again when it was on a month or so back. Still love it to bits.***


Max Headroom: 20 minutes into the future is a minor classic of the 80's. Pity there wasn't more of these kind of cheap, imaginative telly movies back then.

[Hoagy]

Three parter, staring them in the face...

It shouldn't be a film but it is. In which case it needs to be a trilogy. Make cinema viewing top of its game again.

[Goaty]

well Max Headroom is back on Channel 4 now!
he on Channel 4 advert for Digitals, it brilliant as he aged now. very brilliant!

[Adrian Bamforth]

Dave Gibbons visits the set - part 1 of 2:

It's perhaps the most surreal experience of my life.

There they are, in a shadowy clubhouse, standing around a map of the USA, just as we'd imagined them. The smoke of the Comedian's cigar hangs in the air as I drink in the details of the scene. Framed old copies of The New York Gazette tell stories of past exploits; trophies glint in glass-fronted display cases; Moloch's solar weapon shines in a dusty corner and over there, on its mannequin stand, the faded costume of the original Nite Owl keeps silent vigil.

Then, a sudden flash of unearthly blue light announces the arrival of Dr. Manhattan and the tableau comes to life. The voices of quarreling heroes rise and fall, a Zippo flares and the map catches fire.

Somewhere, someone shouts "Cut!"

And I'm standing amongst them. Nite Owl shakes my hand. The Comedian slaps me on the back. Silk Spectre smiles a dazzling greeting. I'm overwhelmed by the depth and detail of what I'm seeing.

But more than that. I'm overwhelmed by the commitment, the passion, the palpable desire to do this right.

I'm starting to feel a glow that eclipses even Dr. Manhattan's...

-Dave Gibbons
December 2007

Below: Looks like Dollar Bill's faded old costume to me ,and is that a Comedian mask? (my book is currently lent out).

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[Tweak72]

Hummm based just on the fact that there are no electric card when there are supposed to be and how every other Moore based film has turned out dispite what the makers have promised.
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[Leigh S]

Saw that picture and thought that Dave Gibbons had taken up crime fighting again!

[TordelBack]

Yeah, when you think about, who knows more about being a retired superhero than Mr. Gibbons!  (Well, Dave Prowse, maybe).

While a fascinating read, I've heard artists wax lyrical about the faithful visuals of an adaptation before, and so maintain my nerdish pre-judgement.

[Adrian Bamforth]

Where does it say something about electric cars?

[Shakara]

I judge the very idea of making a Watchmen movie simply because...well, it just DOESN'T NEED to be done. It was the absolute heights of the comic medium, to just put the story on the screen is a waste of time - the only way it can be 'authentic' and 'true to the source material' is for it to just remain a comic. I'm sick of these studios and their adaption frenzies - sod the lot of them

Iron Man looks quite fun though ;)

[Tweak72]

not a million miles from being right lolhttp://www.comicsuk.co.uk/images/ComicInformationPages/Tornado/Tornado_BigE2.jpg">

[JayzusB.Christ]

A lot of comic fans are determined not to enjoy this film.
Yeah, I'm sure the comic will be better, but for me the novelty value of looking at the characters actually moving and talking on the big screen, in way that's faithful to the comic, will make it an enjoyable experience in its own right.
A History of Violence was apparently a better book than film (I haven't seen it), but it still won awards.
Watchmen, as I said before, could well be shit. But an open mind won't hurt anybody. If you think it should only be a comic, then don't watch the film, simple as that. In any case, it's bound to make a non-comic readers look at Watchmen, which will hopefully help the comic industry in general.  

[Goaty]

see the example of 300! :)

[Proudhuff]

and they are saying Dave Gibbons approves...

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