Tick tock, tick tock

The count down begins. It’s hard to believe Watchmen is only 16 days away from coming to a cinema near you! Man, it feels like forever since news of the nifty project drew legions of internet nerds to it faster than Perez Hilton to cock. Those of you born last week might not know Watchmen is the long-awaited and highly anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore’s award-winning graphic novel (largely considered as the most acclaimed graphic novel of all time). Personally, after reading Watchmen I thought it would be too complex to be made in to a film. Then in rode Zack Synder guns blazing and dedication flaring, fresh off the his success with his Dawn Of The Dead remake and 300 adaptation. Apparently Synder is a massive fan of the graphic novel and was obsessed with trying to match up every scene in the film to panels in the comic book, which sounds like a good thing to me. Anyway, Watchmen 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 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 disturbing conspiracy with links to their past and catastrophic consequences for the future. The trailers have gone viral on the net and it’s clear that Synder has brought his signature stylised approach to project. Watch the trailer here. One of the other integral factors of the Watchmen graphic novel was the music and lyrics from folk legends like Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens which is also featured in the trailer. Love em or hate em punk group My Chemical Romance have even jumped on board to do a cover of Dylan’s Desolation Row as the official single for the film. It’s very different from the original but I think it’s worthy none the less. You can listen to it here but just make sure the volume is turned down otherwise your speakers might bleed. Personally, my favourite aspect of the original Watchmen was the characters as they’re essentially the most important thing about the story. Well kudos to the casting directors as just going off the trailers alone, it looks like the actors have encapsulated the unique super-heroes perfectly. I look forward to seeing more of my favourite character, Dr Manhattan, in the feature length version which is out nation wide on March 5. Oh! I almost forgot the wicked tagline: `Who watches the Watchmen?'
Perfection me thinks.

Below: some of the latest images off the Watchmen set