So i'm doing my bi-monthly glance at IMDB...and lordy The Watchmen is now in pre-production although no cast memebers have been confirmed. I don't have high hopes of yet another of my favourite graphic novels being sanitised and squeezed into about 2 hours. Personally, I think a TV series, a la Lost, would be the perfect rendition of this classic.

Plenty of the geek community, sorry, I mean fans are up in arms about the whole thing. And I kinda agree I don't want them to make a film of Watchmen because it will suck. LxG? Awful. V for Vendetta? Terrible when it should have brilliant given its relevance and analogy to the 'war on terror'. But if it's going to happen, they can at least try and get the very best talent involved. Zack Snyder as director is a bit iffy...see my post about 300, although Dawn of the Dead was vaguely passable. So it will probably look good but lack any plot or any of the things that made the source material so great.