Watchmen: The Real Owlship??
In news that can only be classified as weird and off-putting while still bordering on cool, there is a new blog entry on the Watchmen official site. In the latest entry, titled "A Mysterious Discovery in New York," production designer Alex McDowell recounts a story where he and director Zack Snyder received a call from a location scout in New York about a house that they "just needed to see." They then rush to a brownstone in Chelsea, to an abandoned building that was days away from destruction. Here’s part of the post:
“The scout tells us that the tunnel and chamber was once a spur of a forgotten subway, an underground maintenance area for the cars, built in the 1920’s. In 1955, the tunnel suffered a collapse that flooded this section of the system, and the lower portions of the track were abandoned. 100 yards from the repair yard the tunnel now opens up directly to the East River.”
“Clearly someone had broken into the chamber from above, probably in the sixties, and build the steel stair that connected directly the basement we’d stumbled into.”
How is it that our BS detectors for fiction work so well, but the ones for the real world are so bad? Anyhoo, you're right: gotta be careful about where they take this. I'd much rather stumble upon a bottle of Nostalgia at Macy's!
Oh, that'd be brilliant. Actual commercials for Nostalgia on the TV, with a little tag for the movie at the end. Comic fans would all buy a bottle. And, of course, never use it.