Who Watches the Watchmen in 2009? (ME THAT'S FOR SURE)

The first trailer for Watchmen is online ETA: online at YouTube. Uh... online at YouTube HERE. Wow. Empire put it up just this morning and it's already gone. I guess they didn't have permission? Bummer--it was FABULOUS looking compared to the YouTube ones. If the YouTube link doesn't work, just search YouTube... it'll be there somewhere.

FINALLY. A stable link to the official, high-quality Watchmen trailer. Thank you, Apple. (Now with added bullet-hole smiley face!)

Anyway.

OMG Dr. Manhattan looks AWESOME. Rorschach looks AWESOME. New York City looks... oh God. Just. MOVIE.

If you have never read Watchmen, I humbly (okay, not so humbly) suggest you boogie on over to Amazon (or, please, your local bookstore or comic shop of choice) and buy that puppy. If such things as critical opinion matter to you, it's been on several "Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century" lists, and Maus (and maybe Sandman?) is the only other graphic novel usually included in those lists. It's considered The One That Changed It All--the comic series that changed superhero comics forever. I'm not a comic-book expert, but I have no doubt that most people reading this either are one or know one. Ask them if you don't believe me.

omg dr manhattan

Watchmen trailer update and FABULOUS DVD news

There is finally an stable, wide-screen, multi-size trailer site up for Watchmen (now with added smiley face with bullet hole in it!).

Yet more interesting news, which I am guessing is going to thrill fans of the novel, from today's New York Times:

Mr. Snyder [the director] is also directing a separate-but-related picture that Warner plans to distribute exclusively on DVD. The second film, tentatively called Tales of the Black Freighter, follows a side Watchmen storyline about a shipwreck, and will arrive in stores five days after the main movie rolls out in theaters.

The Watchmen film, Mr. Snyder said, will probably generate at least three DVDs: Tales of the Black Freighter, followed about four months later by release of Watchmen itself, and then an “ultimate” edition in which the two are edited together into one megamovie. (Editorial note: FUCK YEAH)

Mr. Snyder said he was eager to head a direct-to-DVD project, in part because it would allow him to use more material from the Watchmen graphic novel. “I thought the Black Freighter story would never see the light of day,” he said. “The main picture is nearing three hours long and I know I have a fight on my hands just with that.”

And once again, I respectfully say, with utmost reverence, FUCK YEAH.