pics from the WATCHMEN movie panel at ComicCon 07
Malin Ackerman(Silk Spectre) and Jackie Earl Haley(Rorshach)
Info:
-Sets are being built in Vancouver right now, including a New York City backlot. Not going to be 300 style, very little digital work except on Mars and in Antarctica.
-Think more SE7EN than SIN CITY in terms of production design.
-Warner Bros is behind an R-rated film.
-It is period. 1985. There was talk of updating it, but (director Zack)Snyder said it never felt right making it about the War On Terror instead of the Cold War, so he insisted it be set in 1985. Warners agreed.
-While it's not a hard rule, he is going to be using the original comic as storyboards. He'll use them to set the framing for most of the movie.
-The casting was not an exercise in marketing, big names avoided.
-Alan Moore is not involved. He asked for his name to be taken off the project way back when it was first being developed and Snyder is honoring that... but he does hope that this will be the first film made from one of his properties that Moore will eventually think "wasn't fucked up too badly."
-David Gibbons has gotten behind the movie and has frequently given his thoughts on the script and art.