Nutcase comic book writer Alan Moore’s 1980s limited series “Watchmen” has been in development hell longer than, well, just about any movie I’ve heard of. It’s chewed out two possible directors, “Pi’s” Darren Aronofsky and “United 93’s” Paul Greengrass, and now “300″ director Zach Snyder, flushed off the success of “300″, has a $150 million dollar idea for the “Watchmen” movie. But the question is, “Will the studio go for it?” According to Reuters, the studio is looking at something under $100 million — then again, that was before Snyder’s $60 million dollar “300″ blew the roof off the box office over the weekend. Will Zach Snyder get his wish, and put “Watchmen” into production by Summer 2007? Time will tell…
“Watchmen” was created by comic book legend Alan Moore, and follows a team of superheroes who have since retired and gone their separate ways, but are forced to reunite when one of their own is found murdered.
It’s really one of the most brutal and gritty look at superheroes; if anything, you can call it a deconstruction of the superhero genre, and really puts a bad light on them as a fictional species. For instance, one superhero rapes another; another shoots and kills a pregnant woman; and Rorschach, the book’s version of Batman, is a psychopath with a mask.
So yeah, it’ll make for a pretty gritty, down-to-Earth superhero movie, but if Snyder sticks close to the comics the way he has stuck to Miller’s “300″, then it’s also going to be the most filthy, depressing superhero movie ever.
Watchmen. Not your father’s comic book.
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