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Buy Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] DVD
Watchmen is an upcoming 2009 American superhero film directed by Zack
Snyder. Based on the 1986 comic book limited series of the same name
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the film adaptation stars Patrick
Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean
Morgan, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie, Matt Frewer, and Carla Gugino.
Set in 1985, the film follows a group of former vigilantes as tensions
heighten between the United States and the Soviet Union. The film
began shooting in Vancouver in September 2007 for release on March 6,
2009. As with his previous film 300, Snyder closely modeled his
storyboards on the comic, but he chose not to shoot all of Watchmen
using chroma key and opted for more sets.
Following the series' publication, the film adaptation was mired in
development hell. Producer Lawrence Gordon began developing the
project at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. with producer Joel Silver
and director Terry Gilliam, the latter eventually deeming the complex
novel unfilmable. During the 2000s, Gordon and Lloyd Levin
collaborated with Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures to produce
a script by David Hayter (who set it in modern times). Darren
Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass were attached to Paramount's project,
before it was canceled over budget disputes. The project returned to
Warner Bros., where Snyder was hired to direct (Paramount remained as
international distributor). Fox sued Warner Bros. for copyright
violation arising from Gordon's failure to pay a buy-out in 1991,
which enabled him to develop the film at the other studios. Fox and
Warner Bros. settled this before the film's release and Fox will
receive a portion of the gross.
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DVD based on elements of the Watchmen universe will be released;
it will include an animated adaptation of the comic Tales of the Black
Freighter within the story, starring Gerard Butler, and the
documentary Under the Hood, detailing the older generation of
superheroes from the film's back-story. An extended edition of the
film, with Tales of the Black Freighter interspersed through the main
storyline in a manner reminiscent of the comic, is forthcoming.
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