April 15, 2005
Rumour of Watchmen cancellation
Highly speculative and unconfirmed, but a damn bad (or good) one liner through an interesting article on FilmRot - Has Watchmen been cancelled?
Chris Kenny & Nic Korda are UK Producers on Paramount's 'Watchmen' which is preparing for a spring shoot in Pinewood Studios. LATEST: we hear this morning that: "Watchmen" has been cancelled!
I'm with James on this one, it's looking flakier than the crumbliest chocolate I've ever tasted before by the day, and this rumour isn't something that would surprise me. In fact, it would make me happy.
Woa, don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of Watchmen, but what I don't want to see is a half-hearted bad stab at it, because it will only have one stab, at least in our lifetimes. Do it wrong and I doubt anyone else will touch it again, for a very long time. Let's see it done right. So Paramount, if you're not up to the task of bringing this highly complex and human driven novel to the big screen, drop it now. Let someone else with guts and backing get it done.
Posted by Richard Brunton at April 15, 2005 05:48 AM
Comments
Posted by: Joseph Simmons at April 15, 2005 08:24 AM
(^_^) yeah!!!
i've been saying this forever now and in every thread concerning watchmen.
get a bunch of creative people together and do a 24 episode series on hbo or cartoon network.
get it? good. now do it.
Posted by: jason at April 15, 2005 10:19 AM
Watchmen film cancelled? My only comment is the same Roscharch made when his mother died:
"Good"
Posted by: Peter at April 15, 2005 12:11 PM
Just as when I am getting a good grip with all these comic book adaptations then they decide to cancel it.
But I suppose youre right Rich, better cancel it than ruin what could have been a great adaptation if they had the resources. Shame really.
Rich says, "it's looking flakier than the crumbliest chocolate I've ever tasted before by the day", can I use this as a punchline and take credit for it? *winks*
Posted by: Simone at April 16, 2005 07:18 AM
Hi all, just trying this site out for the first time, as i needed an rss movie site.
I'm disappointed with this news if it's true. Paul Greengrass was directing and he knows his stuff as far as i'm concerned.
There was a cool interview with him here and there is also the offical site message boards if your interested.
Posted by: Gus at April 17, 2005 09:31 PM
My wife works at Pinewood and revealed that the Watchmen production office had closed down and shipped out.
Whether this is a relocation or a cancellation she doesn't know for absolute certain.
However, due to the nature of her work, she would still be intimately involved in the production whether it was filmed in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Europe or the USA, and it's all gone quiet....
Posted by: NoOneYoudKnow at May 4, 2005 08:05 AM
If they could get someone devoted to the graphic novel like Robert Rodriquez was to Sin City, it could very well work, otherwise I'd prefer it didn't get made as well.