Who’s Watching the Watchpeanuts?
This little number is lighting up the Internets and Joel brought it to my attention. Drawn by Evan Shaner, it’s 37% more amusing if you know Alan Moore’s Watchmen and/or if you’re looking forward to Zack Snyder’s film adaptation coming to theaters in March 2009. I especially like Snoopy as Rorschach.
I’m skeptical that a feature length film can do the original comic series full justice, but I’m hopeful it’ll make a good movie in its own right. We’ll find out in another year.
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Realistically, Linus is more Nite Owl than Comedian and Pig Pen is more Comedian than Nite Owl, but that would ultimately imply a disturbing relationship between Linus and his sister.
Schroeder is definitely an excellent Ozymandias and Charlie Brown as Dr Manhattan is pretty perfect, but Snoopy as Rorschach does take the cake.
I’m still maintaining massive apprehension over any movie adaption, but brilliantly inspired fanboy stuff like this bring a smile to my face.
Watchman is a seminal work, for sure. I agree - there is so much density to the material that a 2 (more likely, 2 1/2) hour film will have to chuck out so much. I kept wondering why Akira was such a big deal until I actually read the source material it was based on. There are 6 huge volumes, and the movie only covers the first 3. In fact, it has to compress even that much to make it fit in a 2 hour timespan, and we all know how much logical sense Akira makes.
Don’t know Watchmen, but am willing to explore it further as this sounds most intriguing. Didn’t know about the movie either, but I’ll wait skeptically with you, Craig.
Where’s Woodstock?
(I mean the little bird that flies upside down, not the place). ;-)
Woodstock must be in the Tales of the Black Freighter subplot…
I think there’s a good movie to be made from Watchmen that would not be as rich and layered as the original comic, but would stand on its own as a decent movie. There’s little in Hollywood’s track record to suggest this is going to happen, but here’s hoping.
Yeah, I think you could make a good movie out of it but it wouldn’t be anything much in comparison to the original source material, just a good movie. Maybe a great movie with just the right people and story, but who knows? Seems like those things don’t happen often, and they happen under the brilliance of someone far more talented than the Zak Snyder.
Evan, Akira is an excellent example. The movie was even made with the full involvement of the comic’s creator and it still fails miserably to capture the scope or flavor of the original. It’s really, really amazing to look at, but it just can’t possibly touch the massive storyline from which it was adapted. Heck, it completely throws out the vast majority of the original story and radically alters certain characters and plot lines. Even one of the major characters is relegated to a brief, pointless cameo.
Adaptions are a mixed bag.
I read the Akira monthlies from Marvel originally, and then near the end the publishing cycle fell apart and I missed the last 6 issues. It took me years to finally find all of them for a price I could afford.
Woodstock plays the seagulls in the Tale of the Black Freighter.
Joel, you’re right to be skeptical but one can only hope that something of Moore’s brilliance successfully translates into film. I’m not holding my breath though.
Daniel, take thee to a bookstore, library, or online retailer and get The Watchmen. Time may be running out.
I’m with Daniel.
I keep hearing about this comic series called The Watchmen…
The only graphic novel to appear on Time magazine’s best novels since 1923 list. Determining the best is a questionable endeavor but the cited commendation highlights the literary quality of Moore’s book.
You don’t get pointed toward a “library” too often these days. You mean we have to share things and we can’t entirely own them? I admire that, sartre, and it likely would have been my first stop anyway.
The cast for the film includes several up-and-comers:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/
including Patrick Wilson and old favorite Jackie Earle Haley teaming up again, plus Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who looks a little like Bardem.
The cast doesn’t so much worry me Daniel. It’s the director and the form. As has been previously argued, such a densely and intricately structured work would be better served by a big budget mini-series.
While I look forward to Watchmen, I actually think a Peanuts version would be cool. Have to say, though, that Lucy/Silk Spectre’s outfit is unimpressive. Why not something more alluring (or is Lucy not supposed to be alluring?)?
BTW, I think it’s great that there are at least 2 (and a potential for 3) potentially good-to-great films coming out next March: Watchmen, Lovely Bones, and possibly Monsters vs Aliens (the first Dreamworks Animated movie to actually looks and sound good).