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Will you watch these Watchmen?
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 09 Mar 2008, 17:24 ---Warner Bros., probably.
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There's a pretty dang big difference between possibly the most popular series of novels in the history of the world and Sandman.
Jackie Blue:
On the plus side, Stardust made a pretty decent amount of money (about 50 million over its budget, not even counting DVD sales/rentals) so it is remotely conceivable that someone could get behind a series of Sandman films.
EDIT: Stardust made 50 million profit, not 50 million total.
Gridgm:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 10 Mar 2008, 00:14 ---
--- Quote from: Gridgm on 09 Mar 2008, 16:32 ---i think the deal with sandman is the same deal with pratchett adaptions DON'T FUCK WITH THE SOURCE MATERIAL
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Huh? Hogfather was really great, and I haven't heard anything too bad about the animated ones, either. The upcoming Colour of Magic seems like it will be pretty good, too.
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i agree hog father was great...now where did they fuck with the source material in that...it was one of the better straight adaptions i've seen
warofthebees:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 09 Mar 2008, 05:23 ---I guess I'm in the minority of being a Watchmen fan and also excited about the film.
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Stand firm, brother.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 07 Mar 2008, 15:45 ---At this point, my last hope for this movie is they go crazy meta and make a comic book movie based on a comic book that deconstructed and analyzed comic books to do the same to comic book movies. That is my last hope.
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There is a serious chance that they're doing this.
Consider some of the things they might have to change. For example, Tales of the Black Freighter works as a comic within a comic, but a comic within a movie? More likely a tv show or movie within a movie. I think it's more than likely that they've adapted the visual style somewhat to riff on comic book movies, and really, that's only proper. Crunch time: If they were just going to make the story straight, there wouldn't be much point in adapting it. Watchmen isn't action-heavy at all, so you wouldn't even get many cool fight scenes. If they didn't do something at least mildly clever with it there wouldn't be much point.
My big worry is that they're going to move the story to the present day. Post cold-war. You may struggle to see how that would work, but look at the film adaptation of V for Vendetta. Yeah, it lost out big time because they mangled the politics completely and therefore it ultimately made no sense*, but you have to admit they way they adapted the basic story to the modern situation was somewhat clever. I REALLY can't see how Watch-Men will work without the cold war though. However, given that Watchmen is set in an alternate universe, and that it doesn't really matter who the nuclear war is with**. The real problem, as the reception of Cloverfield has shown, is how hard it will be to make a movie which involves the destruction of New York without invoking 9/11. A complete re-tool of Watchmens plot around those events is imaginable, but hardly desirable, unless tackled with real skill.
*Watchmen will win out in this arena, as it is driven almost entirely by fairly simple, yet profound, questions of morality, rather than political theory.
** I hereby bet five quid that Russia is replaced with China, Nixon with Bush, and Redford with Gore.
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