FIRST LOOK

Omehgawd... hot sex. I am so excited for this movie. I think I am more excited for this movie than any other movie coming out that I can think of... maybe AT the Mountains of Madness... but Jesus.. this is gonna be sweet.

That looks simply amazing.

i dont know some of the actors dont look the part at all, Matthew Goode as Ozymandias?! He doesnt even look the part, too shrimpy looking to be the smartest and supposedly most attractive guy (as it states in the comic), in America. I kinda like how everyone else looks, but something just does not feel right, and i dont know why.......

Yes, they really ARE amazing!!! I hope they'll show us Dr. Manhattan soon... ->What about that stupid lawsuit from Fox? It makes me sick to even think about this amazing movie being shut down, now that it's done! Go home Fox! DC and Warner are the same thing! ->No. 1 The Dark Knight ->No. 2. Indy IV ->No.3. Watchmen Oh, I forgot that Cameron movie ; )))

Rocks, Rocks, Rocks!! These pics quell some of the "tonal" misgivings I have had. The comedian is perfect. NiteOwl always ways a BatWimp and that pic is spot on. It is, alas, the all too obvious weak link that the critics will focus on regardless of how well the film is executed. Where's big blue though ? No surprise they'll keep him under wraps for a bit longer. Now. Running Time? Thats the outstanding concern I have for this flickeroo. It is a complex tale indeed and if rushed could be ruined. I want a Ben Hur Epic. Tell me its so Zac, please, go on, will ya? huh? huh? please?

Nice snag Alex... this just rekindled my thoughts about this film (had wrote it off)... and I am right with you Duvel#10 - GIVE ME A 2 1/2 hour film... if it is chopped to another 90 minute ACTION SNAPSHOT film, it will be ruined.

@Squiggly_P: Tales Of The Black Freighter is going to be included on the DVD as an extra featuring Gerard Butler: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=22088

Awesome, I am surprised though Malin Akerman was cast. This isn't a bad thing though, I am just kind of surprised, she kind of looks like Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Holy sh*t, this is sexy

interestingly!!!

I just creamed myself!

Holy kickass! I had heard rumors of the Watchmen movie, but didn't realize it was in production and coming next year! Can't wait!!!! I hope they make it long enough to tell the story as well as the graphic novel / comix did.... If they hold true to the story and feel of the original material, it should be a good flick

the costumes look pretty cool and i love the watchmen but you can't say this movie is going to be great just cause of the costumes and that everyone who has a contrary opinion just can't accept a movie being great don't get me wrong, i would love for the watchmen to be a killer movie and i hope it is but i have a lot of fears that the plot is far to dark and too many tragic things happen in it for the actual movie to come anywhere close to the original story just my opinion though

Looks just a bit too " Mystery Men" for me. But I've already accepted that Zack Snyder is incapable of translating one of the most sophisticated structures of a novel, let alone graphic novel, ever to see print. Comedian looks badass. Ozymandias looks smarmy. Nite Owl's supposed to FAT, enn he? Unless that's the younger version of him. Half the point of him & Silk Spectre hookin' up is that he's an unfulfilled, washed up tech-nerd who followed in his Hero, Hollis's footsteps. I wonder who's playing Hollis. To me, Watchmen's more important characters are its supporting cast. The aging superheroes (Silk Spectre Sr., Hollis Mason) and of course Moloch. It's strongest scenes, equally important to the biographical chapters of the principals, are the flashbacks of the original Watchmen getting together & eventually disbanding. Each character is like a different, post-war ideal, visibly out of touch with the changes going on around them, each maladjusted to the times in their own unique way. Watching their disintegration is half the key of establishing the mood of "Watchmen". The other key- as I've said before, time & again, is juggling an ensemble cast. Can Zack do it? Can Stanley Kubrick be proven wrong, and movie-making really be completely reliant on story boards? All I have to say is, if this movie is anything shorter than 2 1/2 hours, there's no possible way he did the novel justice. That- and the DVD version should amount to at least 3. C'mon Zack. Quit smiling & get to WORK. Who knows. Snyder's WATCHMEN might succeed where Moore's hadn't: It might DESTROY the Superhero Genre single-handedly. -Djo p.s. I do think Billy Crudup could end up holding this WHOLE film aloft, if he turns in a career-making performance as Dr. Manhattan.

Ozymandias is not supposed to look intense.. he's usually either smiling softly or looking sad, occasionally doing both at the same time. It feels like a possible miscast, based on that one shot. I really hope they don't butcher the complexity of his character.

All great, except for Ozymandias. The core of his character is that he is the best, the smartest, the strongest and fastest, and this excellence has corrupted him and robbed him of his humanity. He is not some pufter in a rubber suit, complete with nipples. Unless that is cloth stretched taut over his ripped physique, and it doesn't look to be, the costume is totally foolish. The Comedian is picture perfect. At first I thought Night Owl's costume was too artificial, but I think that fits the character. He was pretty dependant on gadgets, that was his thing so I think it is OK. Ozymandias sucks, but I covered that. I remember Rorschach's coat being a tad longer, but he looks pretty sharp and it really hinges on whether Jacky Earl Harley can nail the voice. Silk Specter looks pretty good, but I don't seem to remember the scene she is in. Am I forgetting something?

My major gripe is with Matheew Goode as Ozymandias - simply seems to "wimpy." However, the comedian looks utterly maniacal (more like the joker) and less like his tragically misunderstood self. If they don't do a good job with Dr.Manhattan.....

Silk Spectre kind of looks like the mom from The Incredibles... but with a different color

They do look really amazing, but does anyone else think that they all look a bit young?

I think only Ozymandias looks too young; maybe they'll explain that he's discovered/invented some sort of youth elixir. Nite Owl is supposed to be in his early forties (I think); Silk Spectre is 35.

I don't follow. Should I have read it 10 or 12 times to be a *real fan* like you, Morgan?

I heard Black Freighter's going to be on the DVD, starring Girard Butler. That has potential. I know from shots of Dave Gibbons on set that they'll be doing some of the Under the Hood stuff, since I saw one of the old heroes (Top Dollar? Dollar Bill?) on the wall. I dunno. I really hope they do a good job. I have to wonder what was cut out, and what they'll leave in, b/c to get a proper return on their investment the theatrical release will undoubtedly have a ton left out. I just hope, for those of us who've been amazed by how the novel's held up over time, that he includes a LOT of that stuff on the DVD. B/c if he smart & realistic, he'll make the DVD collection the big draw- that shiny volume worth having in your collection. And the theatrical Watchmen will be more like an inter-generational murder mystery/conspiracy/social commentary, at best. The two key voices to keeping the commentary remotely intact are the Dr. Manhattan & Rorschach bio. chapters. If he sandwiches the movie with those, and develops the other characters by weaving them, he might strike the balance that'll make this thing tick. (No pun intended)

The Watchmen film is coming out and you are its target audience. Movie studios are banking on the fact that fans will shell out cash for a name they recognize, and that they won’t have to spare the product one modicum of dignity in order to snare your money. It’s time to send them a message that some comics simply don’t deserve the monumental disrespect that they will invariably be given on the big screen, The Watchmen being at the top of that list. Send the most important message that a consumer and a comic fan can and boycott the Watchmen movie! Long story: There is a certain phenomenon that occurs in the American mind. Whenever a particularly salient form of entertainment rises to the top of its respective medium, a common phrase is always bandied about. “Boy, this is an engaging book. This television show is exciting. This video game has me enrapt. It sure would make a great movie!” When Jackson Pollack was destroying and rebuilding notions of art with the swing of his arm, he was hoping that his action paintings would translate into a pretty good action film. When Ray Charles was proving himself as quite ironically one of the most visionary musicians to ever live, he was sure to pepper his life with some hardships so it would make for a sellable screenplay. When the Biblical authors were presenting the story of Jesus, they tailored the character in the hopes that Willem Dafoe could be signed onto the project. It’s as if people are convinced that the end-all be-all form of artistic expression is film. The reason for all of this is simple: the movie industry rakes in tens of billions of dollars a year. The profits of the Harry Potter novels, the most popular book series in several decades, still lag behind the profits of their movie counterparts. It took the Spider-Man of print forty years to make the same amount of money that the Spider-Man of film made in three days. A great idea might make you rich, but a mediocre movie of the same idea will make you richer, and boy do movie producers know that. In order to keep it that way, they spend exorbitant amounts of money on advertisements of all sorts to convince the consuming public that a movie is the final step, the last plateau to be reached by the creator and their property. After all is said and done, it amounts to a win-lose-lose situation. The movie industry wins an amount greater than the GDP of most countries by getting your warm body into a dark room. The creator very seldomly receives but a fraction of that money, all to the tune of seeing their brainchild be perverted into a dumbed-down explosion-fest. And you, the viewer, lose by being coerced into seeing a cherished icon be ground and packed into the movie format like meat into sausage casing. For fans of sequential art, discussions about good comic book movies invariably become exercises in the process of elimination. The best comic book movie is the best because it wasn’t as bad as the rest. But, when all is said and done, it’s not like the distinction between good and evil here, yin and yang. The Punisher was featured in a few bad movies, but he was featured in a few bad comic books as well. Stupid, stilted dialogue said on film can probably be matched to stupid, stilted dialogue said on paper. The Ant Man movie is coming out soon. The corollary to that is: “who cares about Ant Man, honestly? They’re all just dumb, fun books and I’ll go to see a dumb, fun movie.” But what happens when the next comic book on the chopping block is the absolute farthest from dumb that you can get? The Watchmen is viewed by most as the greatest comic book series ever. The criticisms of it only amount to its complexity, its forcing of comic books to “grow up,” and its boundary-breaking nature. To sum up, “it’s too good.” Now, I don’t want to get overly dramatic here, but this is the last frontier in comics. The Watchmen is, in all reality, the comic-to-movie Rubicon. Once this property is stomped all over and you’re left leaving the theater with a bad taste in your mouth and a sufficiently perforated soul, the quality of the next comic book movie won’t matter. After that no other comic will be sacred, no comic spared. “You hear they are going to make The Sandman movie with Jim Carrey as Morpheus?” “Yeah, and I wanted to get angry and write letters and stuff, but that Watchmen movie kinda knocked the wind out of me.” You might be thinking to yourself that The Watchmen movie, while not being good for the diehard, will be a beacon for the non-fan. Once Maynard G. Muskievote wanders in looking for a weekend turn-off-your-brain popcorn-seller and is subsequently blown away by what comics can be, he’ll become a comic devotee in an instant, right? If anything, watching Daredevil and Fantastic Four makes me want to AVOID those comics. Just ask yourself what you would rather be saying to someone who might be a comic convert: “Yeah, I know the movie was dumb, but put that out of your mind and read the book. It won’t be as disappointing as watching the movie,” or simply “Read this book. It’s great.” It might be too late to stop the movie from being released, but it’s not too late to send the message that there are a few things that the movie industry is simply not allowed to stick its meat hooks into. Preserve comics for comics’ sake and tell everyone you know to boycott The Watchmen movie. “In a way, I’m glad because it wouldn’t have been up to the book.” –Dave Gibbons, artist of The Watchmen, upon the movie’s 2002 non-release “I met Terry Gilliam, and he asked me, ‘How would you make a film of Watchmen?’ And I said, ‘Don’t.’” –Alan Moore, writer of The Watchmen (Some of you might be concerned that I am begging the question of the concept of a Watchmen movie being inexorable from the concept of a BAD Watchmen movie. In a way, that doesn’t matter simply because Watchmen is made to be a comic. Alan Moore says “I didn’t design it to show off the similarities between cinema and comics, which are there, but in my opinion are fairly unremarkable. It was designed to show off the things that comics could do that cinema and literature couldn’t.” Anyone who claims they enjoy comics should understand that the instant the movie makes more money than the book is sending the message that “movies are always and without question better than the best comics, and I would rather see a movie than read a comic book any day of the week.” But still, there are those among you that feel it could still be the greatest comic movie ever and you are sacrificing your own enjoyment. For those I will add a loophole: if, after its release, Alan Moore endorses it as a quality film and a faithful adaptation that is dedicated to its source, feel free to see it. Better to wait on the only acceptable movie review than to take an unlikely gamble with your eight dollars, right?)

This movie is going to SUCK. The whole fucking POINT of the comic was that these guys are washed-up, middle-aged schmoes wishing they could relive the glory days. So OBVIOUSLY the cast should be relatively young and sexy and their costumes should be state-of-the-art, right? Hollywood BULLSHIT. What glory days are they reliving, high school? (Most of the actors are in their 30s or early 40s. They should all be pushing 50 to play these roles. Come on.) I'm not even that much of a fanboy, though I think the comic is the best ever. But what is the point of adapting it if you're going to deliberately do it completely dishonestly? How about just making an original super hero movie, if you're gonna spend the money. Look, I get that Hwood won't bankroll a movie if it doesn't meet incredibly narrow standards for casting and audience appeal - but I don't have to like it. And I won't drool over it. Fuck Hollywood and fuck this movie.

RE Nite Owl and SS..those photo's could be of their costumes from when they start adventuring again to help Rorschach etc... in which case thats AFTER Owl gets re-motivated so his bad ass costume would be entirely fitting to the story....we just don't know yet.

Costumes look good, but the characters themselves all look rather young and toned for the actual characters in the Watchmen. The point of the Watchmen was that these people are old and world weary, not 20 somethings that spend all day in the gym. Zac's a good director, lets hope he takes that into account and keeps the film sympathetic to the comic book.

..which features a special appearance by Bob as 'The troll who adds nothing to an internet discussion'

I understand that many fans of the book are really concerned about how this film will turn out. I hope at the very least that it will capture much of the intelligence and scope of the novel. But - and this is aimed particularly at "Boycott Watchmen", whose post is eloquently written - even if Snyder's flick is to the source material what Stallone's Judge Dredd is to the original comics (crap!), we still have the graphic novel to hold aloft as a great piece of work. And the film can never change that! As it stands, I feel cautiously optimistic.

Whoever posted number 51 is an idiot. Gibbons signed off on this, because Alan Moore is a conceited asshole. "My comics are comics and thats it." Well then you shouldn't mind if someone makes them into movies. Also, he's using the comic as a storyboard.....and that's a bad thing how? It means every perfectly framed shot from the comic ends up a perfectly framed shot from the movie. I hate idiots, i really do. We all have a vested interest in this movie being loyal, and Snyder is doing everything he can. Fuck, he's even filming the black freighter scenes. I wish you fanboys would just fuck right off.

Where does it say he's reliant on the story boards? He's using them for framing, not for pacing and story telling. The costumes? The graphic novel used costumes to parody superhero comics. The movie looks to be using them to lampoon super hero movies. if you don't think snyder gets it, you're missing the point.

Watchmen is not a parody, it's a satire. There's a difference. This, incidentally, looks like neither. It just looks like a surface skimming action movie treatment. And before anyone asks me what's wrong with action movies - read the freaking book, and you tell me if it screams "Blockbuster Treatment" to you. If it does, then I have nothing to say to you. Snyder has detailed his story-board-based film making technique in every 300 blog and interview up to date. I am currently hinging this movie on the actor playing Ozymandias, the actor playing Rorschach, and Billy Crudup, as John Osterman. If they are able to portray their characters effectively and faithfully, then this could come across quite well. If Snyder understands how to weave their performances together in the editing process so that their stories are fluid, rather than crammed or forced, or piecemeal, then that is exactly what he needs to do to make this a good film. Costumes ammount to nothing.

I'm sorry. I can't look at these anymore. This just looks horrible. If any of you are really wondering what a film-makers work can be, if they treat film itself as a craft and don't rely on storyboards in the fashion of Zack Snyder, see Chris Nolan's work. There's a fine article highlighting the upcoming Dark Knight, linked from this very page: "If he barely uses storyboards, let alone the computer-animated “previsualization” wizardry common to effects-heavy films, Mr. Nolan is on the cutting edge with one technology. He used the unwieldy Imax cameras to shoot about 30 minutes of “The Dark Knight,” including the entire opening." Cinema is a 100 year old art form. I think the guys that came before Zack might've picked a few things up along the way. Bottom line is: it seems directors are now taking on comic films b/c it saves them time, and, as 'boycott watchmen' mentioned- they have this knee-jerk reaction that "This would make a great movie." WATCHMEN's major accomplishment was uplifting the standards, possibilities, and potential of its own art form. It's the Citizen Kane of comics, as another poster mentioned. To assume that it will translate literally, without a proportional level of artistry, is ludicrious. I stand by my argument, and may very well boycott this movie. (the Dark Knight, on the other hand, is giving me the shivers the more we get of it...)

Maybe if Snyder wore a suit, instead of a T-shirt & jeans all the time, we'd take him more seriously. Nah. Focus, Zach. Make a better movie than you're even capable of making. You can do it. Achieve the impossible. The fact that I have very little faith in you doesn't matter. Just focus on making the best fucking film interpretation of that novel possible. And don't think about anything else. Godspeed.

looks kind'a old batmanish costums hope it'll look better on the big screen then my screen

Silk Spectre's look is terrible. I watched the director's interview and I think the movie will be awesome.

silk spectre is a bit skinny, but she works, she looks pretty special and you would have to be to catch Dr manhattans eye. comedian - great, rorschach - great, nite owl - bit too buff, and his glasses are too square, they supposed to be owl-like, but again, overall works for me. ozymandias - he looks like a geek. He should be like a short blonde superman, except smarter.

I'm really disappointed in Ozymandias, looks way too much like the villain, well yes he is the villain, but he's supposed to be the golden boy and should look the part. I'm not too impressed with Rorscach, but i don't expect them to be able to capture it on film anyway, The Comedian is dead on, Silk Spectre who cares she's the silk spectre, where is Doctor Manhattan makes me wonder is he actually nude like the comic. Allen Moore probably isn't (and shouldn't be) happy about this. I'm a firm believe that watchmen is great on it's own and should not be adapted to film. Shame people who have never touched a copy of the work will now think they're "comic educated" after seeing this film which in no way will be able to capture the essence of Moore's style.

He isn't in shape. Compare it to other pics floating around of the "flashback" group shot (http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/photos/052708-watchmen-minutemen.jpg) and you can see that he's got a bit of a beer gut. I thought they did a decent job of what appears to be a costume he'd make for himself that would flatter him, even if he wasn't in perfect shape.

Am I the ONLY one pissed off by the costumes? I'm have something to say about ALL of them.

Oops. I take that back. Working on four hours sleep here. The pictures a bit dark on Ror but I think it's missing the purple. Purple pin striped pants, purple gloves, and purple band on the hat. Also I take back the comedian. I just looked at his closet to refresh my memory and it's all wrong. so: The comedian: C- too much leather. No red,white, & blue accents. Rorshach: B+ everything's there except the highlights. Overall I'm disappointed with the costumes. From what I can tell the director has been very careful to film exact scenes that look straight from the comic, yet all the costumes are wrong. Oh well. Hopefully the acting and storyline presentation will work.. crosses fingers.

boring shit piece of crap. had to come because of some stupid driving rule so someone else could go I was so disappointed I was really not looking forward to it in the first place and I was right to be disappointed as it just seemed to have a really pathetic story and action for no apparent reason then to just have action. sin city all over again and I hated every minute. unmake the movie now so I can get rid of all the trauma from that night.

The costumes are gaining popularity especially during the Halloween day. You can get one for yorself for the unique and new look!