Looking at all the fan - made placard for The Avengers last night , a intellection strike me : possibly the best way to film the sprawling ensemble piece that is Alan Moore ’s Watchmen would have been to adopt from Marvel ’s approach shot ?
I ’m fully uncoerced to take on this might be one of those belated - night , sleep - deprivation - fuel thoughts that is easily continue to oneself . But think about it : part of the problem with Watchmen is that it has a caboodle of protagonists , each of them potentially the hoagie of the story . And they each have a rich backstory of their own , along with all of the complex world - building that goes into the Watchmen cosmos . peculiarly in the wake of Zack Snyder ’s movie , it ’s easy to see how any film of Watchmen would struggle to get you to connect with all of these protagonists .
So what if you give a couple of those character a solo picture show before bringing them all together for Watchmen ? Would it even work ? Off the top of my head , I could see this work out passably well for Nite Owl . We ’d have more of a fortune to get to make out Hollis Mason , and through him unwrap the chronicle of the superheroes from the 1940s onwards . And it would give us more of a chance to get inside Dan Dreiberg ’s top dog . Would it have been a successful picture show ? intemperately to say . But on its own , a Nite Owl feature of speech would have been much cheaper to film , and since the moving-picture show interlingual rendition of Nite Owl was already revamped to calculate more like Batman , the marketing could have positioned it as another Batman Begins .
A Nite Owl movie could have ended with him retire , or with him hearing from Rorschach that the Comedian had just been mangle .
Beyond that , I can imagine a Rorschach movie or a Dr. Manhattan movie could be a enchanting , compelling stand - alone celluloid . But you know what I ’d really like to see ? A Comedian motion picture . Especially if they went back to the fictitious character ’s roots — I may be the only someone who loves those old Charlton Peacemaker comic , in which the role is always a bit of a psychotic . And yet , he ’s obsess with public security and really does , in his own twisted way , want to make the universe a better space . ( The Comedian is a good deal more misanthropic than the Peacemaker , so I ’m not sure how you ’d meld those two backstories , but it might be coolheaded to try . As long as you ignore DC ’s awful 1980s and 1990s reinventions of the Peacemaker . )
The vantage of rolling out role - specific pic for each of Watchmen ’s main characters is that it cement the idea that this is a superhero universe , just as Marvel ’s is . It also gets around the fact that Watchmen ’s complexness and wealth of point of view are what make it such a swell work — but you ca n’t really shoehorn all of that into one two - hour film .
Lots of masses have suggested that Watchmen really should have been a miniseries , perhaps on AMC or HBO . But possibly the other way to break through this particular dilemma would have been to give motion-picture fan what they really seem to crave from their superheroes — stomach - alone source report — and then bring the ring together to screen out the Comedian ’s end . Or is this the Friday good afternoon crack pipe speak again ?
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