Okay, calm down people. There seems to be some major concerns right now regarding The Watchmen. Some say disaster in progress, some say it’s going to be fabulous…I would hope right now that there’s a lot of middle ground, and it’s swaying towards being the Watchmen we want.
On the bad hand there’s Ain’t it Cool News giving us such quotes as:
A couple of days ago the LA Times ran a piece about some internal struggles at Paramount…DeLine’s possible departure could endanger some high-profile projects at Paramount. Last week, he was in London to urge the director and producers of the studio’s superhero action thriller “The Watchmen” to cut back the film’s $100-million-plus budget so it could get the greenlight for production, sources said.
So the article starts to raise concerns and urges fans to go to the message boards immediately. Then there’s the good hand of Empire who arrive with a production visit, and they give us some titbits such as:
…if they’ve seen what Empire saw on our recent visit to the movie’s production offices at Pinewood (and they have), they wouldn’t have a moment’s hesitation in backing the project immediately – for Watchmen is going to rock. Hard…
…we saw an animatic version of the first three minutes of the film, a sort of pre-shooting test that is increasingly used as a sort of animated storyboard to give the director, producers and anyone else who needs to know a clue about what this is going to look like. And if this is any clue, Watchmen is going to look spectacular.
Visit that link as you like, there’s nothing to give away, but I warn you now. Visit the full report at your peril, although there are no direct “this is going to happen” moments, there are a lot of references to source material which might just give you too much to think on. Suffice to say the leading page says it all.
Two conflicting views and each has their truths. It could well be true that there is trouble in the Studio and that they are pushing to keep costs down, but it’s also true to say that the team behind the movie don’t want it compromised. Let’s hope work like Sin City helps to make the Studio see the wise choice of letting them have their freedom.
