Watchmen

The Los Angeles Times chats with "Watchmen" graphic novel author Alan Moore about his plans to bring the epic superhero story to big screens this spring. Moore chats also talks about the adaptions of the novel, the legal matters and his reputation for being recluse. Watchmen is due in theaters March 2009 and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley and Patrick Wilson.

"...Will the film even be coming out? There are these legal problems now, which I find wonderfully ironic. Perhaps it's been cursed from afar, from England. And I can tell you that I will also be spitting venom all over it for months to come..."

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Comis 2 Film has posted an article on 'Watchmen'. Directed by Zack Snyder, the film is a faithful adaptation of Allen Moore's classic graphic novel. 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' director Kevin Smith was lucky enough to have an advanced screening of the film, and he weights in with his opinion.

"...I saw 'Watchmen.' It's fucking astounding. The Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed prevents me from saying much, but I can spout the following with complete joygasmic enthusiasm: Snyder and Co. have pulled it off..."

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Can Mag has posted an interview with 'Watchmen' star Malin Akerman. She plays Silk Spectre II, daughter of the original Silk Spectre from the cult graphic novel by Allen Moore. 

"...sometimes can be frustrating when you get a big studio involved. They sometimes put their hands in it a bit too much and then all of a sudden the director doesn't get to create something that he really wants to create. It becomes a mixer so that was the one thing that was for me the most amazing experience is that Zack with all these visions was allowed to do what he wanted to do. They gave him, they just said, 'Go for it.' That for us in turn becomes a phenomenal experience..."

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Plus, he addresses film's running time: 'I just don't want to lose any story line.' MTV has posted an interview with 'Watchmen' director Zack Snyder. Adapted from Allan Moore's classic graphic novel. The director is currently working on the film's 2 hours and 50 minute runtime.

"...There is an online petition that says,"Keep 'Watchmen' at three hours." We'll see how that ends. Look, I just don't want to lose any story line, because you know eventually that's what happens. You start to have to cut characters out, and I just don't want to do that..."

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The Comedian is here to let you know... Rope of Silicon has posted an interview with 'Watchmen' star Jeffrey Dean Morgan. He plays The Comedian in the feature film adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel from the 1980's. He talks about the difficulty of playing such a dark character.

"...This is stuff that's a little different than anything I have ever done, and it was stuff that I had a hard time with. There are a couple of things The Comedian does, and I never ever in a million years thought there was something I would have to think twice about, as an actor, but I could make no excuses for it. There were a couple of rough days of filming where I was just like, 'This is tough.'..."

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Can Mag has posted an interview with 'Watchmen' star Billy Crudup. He plays Dr. Manhattan, who is a special effect throughout most of the film. The actor talks about his experience on set, as well as Alan Moore's comic.

"...it’s just so obvious that it approaches it with a different interest and a different level of sophistication than almost anything else out there. Immediately you begin to imagine that there are other things to cultivate as well. I was thrilled by it..."

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Can Mag has posted an interview with 'Watchmen' star Carla Gugino. She plays the original Silk Spectre in Zack Snyder's feature film adaptation of the comic book from the 1980's. 

"...It's much less about who's in the movie or who's directing it as much as here we are, let's present this story as sort of realized as we can possibly be and as authentic as we can be..."

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Can Mag has posted an interview with Watchmen star Earle Haley, who plays the character Rorschach. The film has generated a lot of buzz after Comic Con this year. Haley talks about getting in costume and being on set with his co star Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

"...I must've passed him three or four times and he finally looked over at me and said, 'Jackie.' I looked over and I didn't recognize Jeffrey. I recognized The Comedian. He was in the old guy make-up..."

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Carla Gugino & Malin Akerman hung out and developed a strong mother-daughter bond for their scenes in Watchmen.

Comic Book Movie has posted an interview with two of 'Watchmen's leading ladies, Carla Gugino and Malin Akerman. Although the two women are nearly the same age, they play mother and daughter, and both wear the Silk Spectre outfit. Gugino explains that she was taken aback when first approached by director Zack Snyder.

"...I thought, 'That's interesting. I would think he'd want a much older actress..."

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The Conventry Telegraph has posted an interview with 'Watchmen' star Bill Crudup. He plays Dr Manhattan in the big screen adaptation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel.

"...he was being asked to be a dutiful man at the same time by his government, so he was trying to attend to both of those while trying to carry on a relationship, and I think ultimately he discovered, through his own journey, that he was no longer as interested in people as he was in the ... universe..."

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