Also, CHUD has posted the first part of a very interesting interview with the film's director, Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, Bourne Supremacy). You can check it out here: http://chud.com/interviews/1914
Here's an interesting excerpt:
Here is a review of David Hayter's script: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/545/545644p1.htmlAnd I think that what it means is � and we�re engaged in a debate at the moment in this production on how to do it � you have to take the chronology of Watchmen, and by chronology I mean what I call the �footsteps to Armageddon� part of the machinery of Watchmen. You�ve got these two pieces of machinery, the first of which is the murder mystery with the caped crusaders and the various generations thereof, and the other is the footsteps of Armageddon. What you have to do is take that chronology as it�s given to us in Watchmen and try to update it. You don�t replace it, you just say �What would have happened if that chronology continued?� One of the most exciting things that I remember distinctly when I read Watchmen when it came out was this idea of a world that was our world but that had taken a slightly different course. Nixon had served three or four terms. Woodward and Bernstein had been assassinated. G Gordon Liddy had become the trusted advisor to the president. It was a kind of world turned on its head. What we have to do is imagine what would have happened to that Watchmen world if it had continued, rather than say let�s start with a new paradigm. It's about building on what�s there in the spirit of the novel. That's what we're going to try to achieve. So you feel that it�s addressing our world, but you�re not losing the world Watchmen gave us. Which is the Nixon four terms world.
Director Paul Greengrass talks a bit about the movie and portraying Dr. Manhattan on-screen http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/archives ... _talk.html
Also, pre-production is reportedly underway:
January 27, 2005 - DC-on-Film reports that pre-production is now underway on Paramount's Watchmen movie. The feature adaptation of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book classic will be directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay by David Hayter.
According to DC-on-Film, the crew so far includes two members of Greengrass' The Bourne Supremacy: production designer Dominic Watkins and art director Peter Wenham. The visual effects supervisor is said to be Steven Begg, whose credits include Batman Begins and the Tomb Raider movies.
Filming reportedly takes place at Pinewood Studios in England later this year for a summer 2006 release. Production had previously been slated for Prague.