WATCHMEN fans rejoice!

[Khephra]

Aronofsky Tackles Watchmen

Darren Aronofsky has signed on to develop and direct a big-screen version of Watchmen, based on the DC Comics title, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Screenwriter David Hayter (X-Men, X2: X-Men United) is on board to pen the script and Paramount Pictures will finance and distribute the adaptation of the seminal comic book created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons in 1986.

Mixing superhero adventure with SF, social commentary, personal stories, vigilante justice and gritty realism, Watchmen follows Rorschach, a masked hero who begins to believe there's a plot afoot to kill off any and all masked heroes, even those who long ago retired. Aronofsky, best known as the director of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, will likely make Watchmen his next project after The Fountain, a long-delayed SF epic that's finally set to roll with Hugh Jackman in the lead.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-07/23/08.00.books

[solinvictus]

1. I just can't see it...

I've just finished re-reading "Watchmen" and it seems like too much story to be contained in a 2 hour movie. I'm afraid it'll come across as too diluted from its original source, sort of like Moore's "From Hell" wound up.
However, I'm glad that it seems likely to see the light of day. It's been rumored to be made for years.

[Khephra]

2. I'm hoping for a vol. 1 and 2

And I'm happy a non-hack is involved.

First thing I know is this: the pirate stuff will have to be cut.

[DerekG]

5. Unfortunate...

The pirate story chronicles Veidt's descent into evil. It's essential in understanding the most complex character of the series. Personally, I think Moore's masterstroke was having Rorshaech and the Comedian--two figures who basked in brutality--as the two who were the most disgusted by Veidt's plot.

But I'm glad to know that an accomplished director is attached to adapting one of the great literary works of the 20th century.

[Khephra]

6. IF they did the Vol. 1 and 2 of Kill Bill as inspiration

You might be able to fit the pirate material in, but most of the modern audience would :shrug: and not know about the EC backgound from which it comes.

[solinvictus]

7. 2 volumes

That would work, but the movie MUST have a good enough hook to bring the audience back. I've re-read the series for the first time since 1987 and the story has aged very well.

[Khephra]

8. "V" aged better

I don't like updates, but you could update "V" to modern Bush America easily.

[solinvictus]

9. Library

I went to check it out when I got "Watchmen" and it was gone. Our local university library has several trades of Sandman, "V for Vendetta", "Watchmen", and "League of....". I was quite surprised.

[Khephra]

10. I've been pleasantly surprised about

local libaries. It seems they're more libral than I expected.

[solinvictus]

11. Chattanooga

I've read "Promethea", several of Moore's "Swamp Thing" trades, "Watchmen", "LXG", and a general assortment of recent DC super hero trades. The local public (Chattanooga) also has Comics Journal's books on Jack Kirby and Frank Miller. I'm going to have to see what's in Birmingham's public once we settle in down there.

[nemo137]

12. I'd like to see a 6 part HBO mini

with all the little source material bits (Nite Owl I's autobiography, the interview with the Silk Spectre, etc) included as documentary footage.

[Fenris]

3. For a second, i thought that said "the fountainhead" at the end there.

:scared:

[Khephra]

4. Yeah, that would worry me

Although, Ditko is a Objectivist, so an Objectivist might have an interesting take on Rorschach since he's based on Ditko's The Question.