Watchmen

**Brand** · 27 Nov 2007, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Dolemite

That's how they fucked up The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie.

No ass raping it with elephant dong is how they fucked up the League movie. At least this has to be marginally better then that.

**Ryan** · 27 Nov 2007, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Kaneda

I'm ok with some short Daicon IV-like tribute where you could see Rorschach eating beans,

Rorschach jumping out of the refrigerator is going to be fucking epic.

**YellerDog** · 27 Nov 2007, 11:34 PM

After 300, I've got a ton of faith in this director.

If you could have anyone do Watchmen and preserve at least the spirit of it, this is the guy you want on it. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is what happens when you throw the spirit out the fucking window.

**Space Pirate Roberts** · 12 Feb 2008, 05:45 PM

Who Sues the Watchmen?
Posted by Patrick on 02/12 at 06:11 AM

And here’s our second movie-related lawsuit to tell you of today: 209th Century Fox is now suing Warner Bros. over what it believes is its rights to develop, produce and distribute a movie based on Watchmen.

When I first read this my immediate thought was “How the hell is that possible when Warners owns DC Comics which owns the Watchmen copyright?” But apparently it is entirely possible for Fox to sue WB if you follow the twisty legal red tape.

According to the explanation provided by The Hollywood Reporter, Fox says that it had the movie rights to the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book series between 1986 and 1990. Then, in 1991, Fox assigned some rights to Largo Entertainment, a production company, which developed a couple of different Watchmen screenplays by Sam Hamm (the writer of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film) and Charles McKeown. I remember these.

So later on Largo then dissolves and the Watchmen development rights fall to producer Lawrence Gordon. If Gordon wanted to make Watchmen with a different movie studio than 20th Century Fox, so Fox claims, the producer had to buy out Fox’s interest in the rights. With me so far?

So during the 1990s the Watchmen movie rights never really went anywhere and the project wound up back at Warner Bros.—which, I assumed, was normal after all this time. Fox doesn’t think so and it thinks Warners has stepped on its rights to develop the movie or buy out Fox’s interest in the picture.

If this is starting to give you a headache, join the party. But here’s the deal: Fox not only wants some kind of monetary damages it also wants to “restrain [Warner Bros. Pictures] from taking actions that violate Fox’s copyrights and which stand to forever impair Fox’s rights to control the distribution and development of this unique work.” Which could mean that if Warner Bros. releases Watchmen in March 2009—which is the present plan—it could be in violation of the earlier agreement with Fox. Which means if Warners lawyers look at the old Watchmen contract and deem that the studio has a case we could be seeing, worst case, a delay in the release of Watchmen while the rights get worked out in a court of law.

The easy way out of this is that WB pays off Fox, regardless if the lawsuit has substance or not, to get any potential delay out of the way. That is, if Warners lawyers think that is the easiest way out. (I’m not a lawyer in real life and you shouldn’t listen to my legal advise. I only play one on television.)

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**Cowutopia** · 12 Feb 2008, 06:14 PM

Someone tell me how the book ends. I read from the beginning through the one where Jon goes to Mars and didn't really feel like reading anymore.

The rich dude blows up NYC blah blah ok. What did the Comedian find out?