The film is going to be released early next year in the states, the trailer looks really good:

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

Has anyone else read the graphic novel?

What do you think of it being made into a movie?

I'm torn because I've seen few really worthy book to film adaptations. I so want to see this film, but I think I'm afraid going to be disappointed.

Loved the graphic novel. One of my all time favourites.

I don't know whether I'm looking forward to the film now that David Hayter is out of the equation. If someone like Moore (who I think is a proper bellend) can give his screenplay praise then it must have been something special. Now they've handed it over to some unknown its bound to be a sack of shit.

I love the graphic novel but I have a feeling the film won't quite live up to it. The trailer looks great and I'm pleased that the producers have gone for a largely unknown cast. Nothing worse than seeing someone totally unsuitable playing a role simply because of their box office appeal. (Can you imagine Stallone as Nite Owl and Cruise as Rorschach!)
Will definately watch it though.

I don't think my curiosity is going to let this one go by me. I hope I can watch it and enjoy it as a film - not get pissed off because they miss a bit or do something completely different from the way I imagined.

The good thing about a graphic novel is that the vision is drawn in ink already. That should at least make it a little easier to transfer to screen. It worked with 300. Others may disagree in relation to V for Vendetta, but then I haven't read that yet and haven't seen the film so I can't comment.

The film of V for Vendetta was suprisingly good and very faithful to the graphic novel. Also, I think they have picked a good director in for Watchmen, I thought he did a very good job with 300.

No one else think its a bit weird using a smahing pumpkins song from a rank batman film for the trailer? hope that aint a bad omen

I'm looking forward to this alot, but I'm a little bit nervous in case they mess it up. I dont mind if they miss bit's out - it's more wether they add crummy Hollywood gimic's that concern's me. The trailer look's really good, I havent noticed anything there that's not in the book (apart from Ms Juspecyk's costume is a little bit updated, but that doesnt really matter). A freind tell's me there will be an additional annimated film to go with it, of "Th Black Freighter", the comic book that the kid read's at the new's stand. Interesting.

As someone who grew up with 2000AD (I was 11 in 1977) and pulp Marvel superhuman comics, graphic novels are pretty dear to my heart.

Probably the least known detail about Watchman is that Alan Moore wrote the story for the newly purchased Charlton comics characters. When he submitted the script DC rejected it because it killed off too many of them.

So Alan Moore rewrote it, restyled the world in which it was set (more technologically advanced, pirate comics are popular because "super humans" are real, etc) and added lots of retro-continuity.

So Rorschach was originally The Question, for example.

I've some misgivings about the project because Watchmen was a such a classic graphic novel - it would be like translating the Mona Lisa into a musical ... tracking down the original is better.

Also I'd recommend the following to fans of Watchmen; Alan Moore's 1987 Swamp Things, his more recent Promethia series and the Astro City series.

I haven't read the graphic novel, which can only be an advantage because I'm not comparing it to anything.

I wasn't especially interested in the film either, but I saw the trailer before 'The Dark Knight', and it looked so awesome that now I want to see it.
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I dont know how recently you lot have checked this out, but there's a new trailer for all you Watchmen fan's. It's great, like the first one, it's straight out of the book/comic.

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/