Jubei Kibagami’s strapping on the ninja gear and heading for theaters around the globe. Variety reports that the acclaimed anime film Ninja Scroll will be adapted by Warner Bros. as a live action adventure. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way will produce the picture alongside Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Mike Ireland. The film will be written by…
At the Spike TV 2008 Scream Awards last night, Watchmen director Zack Snyder and actors Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino and Jeffrey Dean Morgan introduced a never before seen extended trailer for the film. Highlights of the trailer include: – Dr. Manhattan with Silk Spectre on Mars – Rorschach investigating The Comedian’s apartment after his death…
According to /Film, a screening for Watchmen occurred last week for a test audience without preexisting ties to the graphic novel. Despite rave reviews of the film, there are reports that Zack Snyder has significantly altered the story’s ending. How, you ask? Well, it’s spoiler-heavy, so click below to find out… BE WARNED! SPOILERS AHEAD!
Warner Bros. is doing a tremendous amount of early publicity for March 6’s Watchmen release. They have dispatcheddirector Zack Snyder on tour, showing clips to the press and other parties first in London then last week in Los Angeles and last night in Manhattan. He and the clips will continue their tour to Europe and…
With the wild success of Zack Snyder’s 300, it’s hardly a surprise that there’s a sequel in the works. Yes, most of the cast is dead by story’s end, but before you call call madness, remember that this, is, SPARTA!! we’re talking about here. IESB caught up with Snyder at a Watchmen event in Hollywood…
It used to be that Hollywood types were found slumming by writing comic books but the new option for creators between films may be creating video games. Slashfilm reports that Zack Snyder has signed with Electronic Arts to create three games for the company. EA, interestingly, will own the intellectual property, but Snyder’s production entity,…
In the sixth production diary to be released, director Zack Snyder and his gang reveal some of the techniques utilized in filming Watchmen. In related Watchmen news, DC Comics has printed nearly one million new copies of the collected edition and you can barely enter a retail outlet of any kidn without seeing it on…
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…
Director Zack Snyder has said he’s trying to stay faithful to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen graphic novel, but that has left Snyder with a whole lot of material and a whole lot of cutting ahead of him. Slash Film does a good job of sorting through Snyder’s comments about his film adaptation, leading…
From a Wired article about the excessive success of this year’s Comic-Con is a little tidbit about the success of comics: Watchmen is now sitting at the top of Amazon’s fiction and literature sales list. DC has been printing up copies like mad to meet the demand, which is of course churned up by the…
Friday’s big event at Comic-Con was probably the Watchmen panel, which featured director Zack Snyder, Dave Gibbons and the main cast. Snyder showed off a new, less-PG trailer, described at CBR: The trailer opens with a shot of Rorschach, then cuts to a giant Dr Manhattan blasting apart Vietnamese soldiers. We then see Rorshach searching…
Fans have long wondered how any director could condense Watchmen into a feature-length film (I always liked the suggestion of doing it as an HBO miniseries), and now director Zack Snyder is feeling that pinch. The Geek Files blog has a comprehensive entry about Snyder’s difficult editing task. The current length sits at an epic…
