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Originally Posted by DarkMaster
The director is doing The Watchmen next, which is supposedly a pretty good comic book/graphic novel.
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I cannot see anyone making it into a movie without destroying the material. Perhaps if Alan Moore worked closely with the director like Frank Miller does...but he really does not want this movie made. And can you blame him? All the movie adaptations of his books have been crap.
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Terry Gilliam eventually abandoned the project due to the funding problems, also adding the concern that Watchmen would have been unfilmable. "Reducing [the story] to a two or two-and-a-half hour film... seemed to me to take away the essence of what Watchmen is about," Gilliam said.
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After Warner Bros. dropped the project, producer Lawrence Gordon acquired the rights to Watchmen and invited Gilliam back to helm the film. Gilliam declined, believing that the comic book would be better directed as a five-hour miniseries.
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In October 2001, Gordon and Universal Studios signed screenwriter David Hayter to write and direct Watchmen in a "seven-figure deal". Hayter, being familiar with the project's long history, said, "[Watchmen] was considered too dark, too complex, too 'smart.' But the world has changed [after 9/11]. I think that the new global climate has finally caught up with the vision that Alan Moore had in 1986. It is the perfect time to make this movie."
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Man, if they add some 9/11 twist to it...will be mighty pissed. The added America stuff in regard to the current war in V for Vendetta left a bad taste in my mouth.
Rorshach was stuck into a frame of the R-rated trailer for 300:
