Some cool new posters for the upcoming
Watchmen movie which is being directed by
300's
Zack Snyder have surfaced on the internets today. To the left we have Sally Jupiter (played by
Carla Gugino) in a very cool 1930s S&M-ish poster claiming it doesn't rain on the good guys in California. You can check the rest of the posters out at
Movieweb.
After seeing the
super cool teaser trailer the other week I keep hoping this won't be a recurrence of the 300 Trailer super hype. Man, I loved that 300 trailer and no film on earth could meet my expectations after that.
Watchmen is based on the amazing graphic novel of the same name written by
Alan Moore and drawn by
Dave Gibbons.
To quote Wikipedia:
"To date, Watchmen remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only graphic novel to appear on Time Magazine's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels" published since the founding of the magazine in 1923. Watchmen is set in 1985, in an alternate history United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union; throughout the books, the Doomsday Clock is shown gradually ticking towards midnight. It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. Watchmen depicts superheroes as real people who must confront ethical and personal issues, who struggle with neuroses and failings, and who—with one notable exception—lack anything recognizable as super powers. Watchmen's deconstruction of the conventional superhero archetype, combined with its innovative adaptation of cinematic techniques and heavy use of symbolism, multi-layered dialogue, and metafiction, has influenced both comics and film."
The film is going for a global release of the 5th/6th of March 2009.
As I previously mentioned, I'll be watching the Watchmen film the day it comes out (midnight session anyone?) but in the meantime I'll have to be happy by watching them make the Watchmen.
