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I have been hearing rumors lately, but it look’s like Alan Moore’s Watchmen is going to be made into a motion picture relatively soon. Lately a lot of information has been coming out about the movie and just what fans should expect.

First Showing has a great post about comments from the prospective director, Zach Snyder, about how much CGI will be used and than the movie will be set in 1985. The CGI is a very tough call because the Watchmen is not something that should have a lot of CGI- it is essentially about real people doing real things not fantastic mutants or magic. The issue is that certain fantastic things happen at points in the book that take it away from the “citizen superhero” style have to be done with CGI, like everything with Doc Manhattan and trips to Mars and Antarctica.

Supposedly the movie is in pre-production, but I have not been keeping up on it as well as I could be. There also seem to be a lot of people speaking out against this comic classic being made into a movie. Personally I am a fan of the novel but have trouble seeing how well it actually lends itself to movie format. It will be interesting to see what happens…

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