Here’s something for all you hardcore Watchman fans – Nite Owl Dark Roast Coffee. Yes, you read that right and it’s an actual product tied into the movie, apparently a world’s first for coffee. It’s the brainchild of the film’s on-set photographer Clay Enos, and is produced by Organic Coffee Cartel.
For about $20.00 you can buy 10 ounce of this fanboy fuel. But you better hurry ’cause only (?) 10,000 cans will be produced as a one-time limited-edition run, with a portion of the proceeds being donated to charity.
The one part omitted from the film adaptation of The Watchmen is the subplot about the fictional comic book called Tales of the Black Freighter, which scenes appear throughout the Watchman issues. The story in the story is an allegory for the overall theme of the plot, but is more than able to stand on its own. So it’s no surprise that Warner Bros. is going to offer it as a stand-alone animated film to be released on DVD on March 24th. And from the looks of this trailer that premiered at MTV.com they are not changing much of the story, which is very good.
I know a tun-and-a-half nerds that are fretting if the Watchman movie will stay true to the actual comic. After seeing this I would hope most of you can settle the hell down, ’cause this looks pretty spot-on if you ask me.
And if you don’t know who or what the Watchman is, you suck. Well at the very least you’re uneducated in what is arguably one of the most important comics in history… really, it’s true. So to help school you here’s the general plot of the film:
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
Here’s a look-see at a movie poster standee someone captured at some theater for the upcoming movie Watchman, based on the comic of the same name that comic nerds seemed to think could never be made into a movie. Hey comic nerds… you were wrong. But that isn’t to say that Hollywood won’t screw it up. I personally have hope though. 300 director Zack Snyder seems to be a perfect fit for the somewhat psychedelic superhero story.
Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming film adaptation of the comic cult classic Watchman is having a contest – create an advertisement for a fake product. If it wins he’ll plaster it somewhere in the movie. Users of YouTube will be asked to help narrow down the submissions. Up to 20 fictitious commercials could make it in the film, those winners caching in on $1000.00 each.
