Watchmen director Zack Snyder recently announced the winners of the "Veidt Enterprises Advertising Contest," in which YouTube users submitted commercials promoting fictional products of Veidt Enterprises, the company run by Adrian Veidt (a.k.a. "Ozymandias"). Contestants submitted the commercials for potential use in the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel.
While YouTube users voted on the Top Five commercials (the makers of which would receive a fancy new camcorder), Snyder recently announced the eight videos he’d be considering for use in the film. Among them was this throwback to Saturday morning toy commercials:
Zack Snyder and the Watchmen movie crew recently delivered another video from the set of the film, providing a bigger peek at the "look" of the upcoming adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ groundbreaking graphic novel.
This time around, costume designer Michael Wilkinson takes you on a tour of the clothing that makes the men — and women — of Watchmen.
UPDATE: Looks like the code JoBlo provided to embed the video wasn’t playing nice with our system here, but I think I’ve wrangled it into shape now. Apologies for the delay. – RM
The biggest question regarding the currently filming adaptation of Watchmen has to be how it will compare to the original comics series, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The comics are some of the most highly regarded works ever created, and so the filmmakers face the task of not only making a quality movie, but also of appeasing fans of the book.
A new report over at Slashfilm takes some new photos from set locations and puts them next to Gibbons’ original art, so fans can decide for themselves how close director Zack Snyder is hewing to the source material. The locations include:
Dr. Manhattan’s lab
Dr. Manhattan’s apartment
Rorschach’s jail cell
The Comedian’s apartment
Mason’s Auto Repair
and the New York City streets
In other Watchmen movie news, ComingSoon has some video from the set, which you can check out right here.
The reports contain some spoilers for people who haven’t read the book. (And if you’re one of the people who hasn’t read it, all I can say is, "Why the heck not?") I’ve posted the descriptions of Rorschach, Silk Spectre and Ozymandias below, but the report has info on just about every one of the main characters.
RORSCHACH – definitely my favorite from the series and looking super creepy in real life. I think most readers know that the rorschach effect on the mask will be done in CG as all the photos I saw of him he just had a blank white mask on. The suit is all brown, which I guess will darken up when filming. Basically looks awesome and one still I saw has him with his grapple hook gun. There are shots of him picketing without the mask as Ernie Kovacs….I still can’t believe this is Kelly from the Bad News Bears…but he’s perfectly freaky for this character. I hope the voice is as good – hurm….!
SILK SPECTRE – Carla Cugino looks AMAZING in a classic 1940’s looking outfit for the Silk Spectre – the bulk of the photos were of her in her youthful days. The photographer must have loved her. Many photos I saw of her in different types of poses and mostly looking like costume color and lighting tests.
OZYMANDIAS – this guy is spooky looking. The shots I saw have him in his purple suit and really weird doll-like eyes, perfectly combed blonde hair. I also expected a slightly bulkier man playing this character since I saw him as more of a retired Captain America but here he looks quite slim. Didn’t see the costume but all the Veidt ads are in there looking just like Dave Gibbons drew them.
According to MTV’s movie site, John Cusack of the famous Chicago Cusacks acting horde, wants to be a Watchman. And he’s told director Zack Snyder all about it.
John wants to play Dan Dreiberg, a.k.a. Nite Owl II, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s tribute (so to speak) to the original Blue Beetle. Cusack wants the job, and he smiles hungrily when he says it.
No word on if his sister, Joan, wants in as well.
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