Watchmen

[Sean]

Originally Posted by grady

I recall reading about Hotel Transylvania in one of the trades sometime back. Is it being geared as a very kid friendly film? I'd imagine it is, though the synopsis seems somewhat amusing and could have some fun humor in it. The idea reminded me of a this cartoon I saw of a bunch of cereal mascots all sitting around in a circle as part of a support group, but replace the mascots with horror icons.

How far along is the production?

It'll be geared towards the whole family. It's all about the "four quadrants" these days (a phrase that makes my skin crawl), so it really will be something that appeals to a broad spectrum of ages.

We've been in the development/pre-production stage on this version of the film for around a year now. The synopsis that you can find online really doesn't apply much at all any more. We just sent off the writers to tie down their second draft of the script, and we'll see where things go from there. I'm more excited about this movie than any other I've worked on for years though, so it's going great right now.

[King of Snake]

Just seen this movie yesterday!
I managed to finish reading the comic just a couple hours before (had a bit of a hard time getting into it at first but it really hooked me in later on).

I think the movie turned out to be as good as could realistically be expected. It's not Batman/Dark Knight-good (which is pretty much gonna be the benchmark for "realistic superhero movies" for the foreseeable future), but it stays very close to the source material. Biggest change was the ending, and you miss some of the subtleties in the background stories but at 2.5 hours the movie is already quite long so it would have been impossible to get everything in.

Of course Batman had a solid lineup of some of the biggest and best actors around to carry the movie, and I felt that Watchmen could have used a bit more of that too. All the characters definitely looked the part, but none of them really managed to get to the level of acting of the main cast of Batman.