A test of your willpower...

The official trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Watchmen is set to premiere before The Dark Knight tonight. Considering every showing is sold out at the local IMAX theater for the entire weekend already, I'm wondering how easy it's going to be to even see it in a regular theater in the next couple of days. So, if you're faced with the same (or stuck at home with little kiddos to watch), enjoy the Watchmen trailer already leaked out onto the internet:



Addendum: Damn, those YouTube monitors are fast! Just as soon as I posted this, the video was pulled off. Oh well. I tried. It was rather awesome, though--be prepared to pee in your pants.

Addendum, Part 2: Ooh! Ooh! Gizmodo has it up on their site.

03.06.09 To Watch The Watchmen

No, that isn't a cover from the Watchmen series, that is the first official movie poster of the film. If that does not bode well for this production, nothing will.

Just to top it all off, here are some cool quotes from director Zack Snyder at the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend.

"I have been having a lot of fun, because I always say treat the graphic novel like it was written 2,000 years ago, and it is an illuminated text, and we are disciples of this religion and we have to make sure that we won't be burned at the stake for heresy after we make the movie. So I think that's the fun that we also have. Even just as small of things as when Rorschach burns the S.W.A.T. cops with hairspray, we were sitting around and they showed me some hairsprays, some ratty hairspray cans, and I go the labels are wrong. They're like "what do you mean?" I [flip through my reference materials], see? You could do that with every single thing in the movie."

"I take the graphic novel and I have the script and I say, okay, Rorschach comes into someone's apartment. That's what I have [on the page]. Then I say how did they draw that? I [realize] I need to be a little over here because there's a staircase on our set, but basically referencing that frame, so I cut that frame out and glue it in my book next to the drawing I did. That way on the day I can go, wouldn't it be cool if that shadow was the same as [in the comic]? So it's not quite as easy as just going "oh, that shot, that shot, that shot." You go, "that shot, oh, that shot's weird, that shot makes sense for our set, and then this isn't in the book, it's voiceover, so I've got to make it up." So it's a ballet or something - I don't know (laughs)."

Will it be a good film? Only time will tell. But, I got a growing feeling it will be.

Watching the Watchmen with lots of anticipation...

No Tom Cruise, no Keanu Reeves, no Jude Law. Forget the big name stars. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zack Snyder has picked a handful of lesser known actors to bring his vision of Watchmen to the silver screen. The official announcement is supposed to take place on a sold-out Saturday this weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con.

300 hasn't even premiered, and he's already creating buzz for his next movie...

Of course, the video above is yet another trailer for 300. It's a bit NSFW for some decapitations and a couple of flashes of boobies (the female kind, not the pumped up man ones). I post this not to go overboard with the 300 praise before I've even seen it, but to tell you that according to Ain't It Cool News, a flash of Rorschach that Zack Snyder intentionally put in as an Easter egg is 1 minute 52 seconds in. If anyone's forgotten, Synder is already in preproduction for the film adaptation of Watchmen, and the photo of Rorschach is from one of the test shots he's been working with.