Oh my god, the new Watchmen teaser has just hit the web and it is good!
For those few who don’t know what this is, Watchmen (by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons) is one (if not THE best) of the best and most influential graphic novels printed and it was named among Time Magazine’s “100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the Present”. Not bad for a comic book.
To help with the synopsis, I have lifted this from IMDB:
“Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity… but who is watching the Watchmen?” Written by T-Hen
So many names have been attached, or rumoured to be attached, to this production over the years including Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, Paul Greengrass, Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jude Law etc. For one reason or another this film has just sat there, some saying that it was just unfilmable.
When Zack Snyder (300) announced that he was going to make Watchmen, I jumped for joy. It is not that he is a god of filmmaking, it is just that after 300, I realized that this man understands the graphic novel. His adaptation of 300 was perfect and incredibly faithful to the original graphic novel.
Well, it would seem that Zack Snyder has done what so many could not do, he has brought Watchmen to the big screen and if the first teaser is anything to go by, he has succeeded in a faithful adaptation of a wonderful book. Here at Geek Actually, I will be following this very closely.
Watch the teaser now and if you have not read Watchmen, go out and buy it today and read it! You will not be disappointed.
