One of the more anticipated projects for 2009 is Warner Brothers The Watchmen. Their presence at Comic Con was notable- I did not make it to the panel but everyone was talking about it. Eric Kripke the producer at Supernatural mentioned that Jeffrey Dean Morgan one of the movie’s stars is very busy with his new projects and WOW. Here is my big fat compilation post on the new DC Comics movie and what we know so far!

To start things off right here is a nice photo of Jeffrey Dean Morgan from Comic Con at the panel on Day 2.

Watchmen Headlines:

Watchmen Is About Movies

Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming comic-book adaptation Watchmen, told SCI FI Wire that the superhero film offers an ironic commentary on superhero cinema in much the same way that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ original graphic novel commented on comic books.

“It’s not just superhero movies, you know,” Snyder said in a group interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 25. He added: “[In Moore's book,] it wasn’t just … comic-book literature, but it was all of literature as well. You know, he’s [a] very … smart guy. So … we definitely tried to reference as much sort of superhero cliche, movie cliche, as we could without it becoming self-aware. That’s a fine line.”

Watchmen is set in an alternate-universe 1985 New York in which superheroes exist and Nixon is still president. When one of a group of outlawed superheroes is murdered, the others investigate, uncovering a massive conspiracy.

Moore and Gibbons’ seminal book was viewed as an exploration of the tropes and conventions of the superhero comic book, while turning the genre on its head.

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Watchmen Takes Manhattan

Billy Crudup, who plays the superpowered Dr. Manhattan in the upcoming graphic-novel adaptation Watchmen, told SCI FI Wire that he was guided by the comic in trying to play a nearly omnipotent being who may or may not be hanging on to his humanity.

“I think the graphic novel and the screenplay attempt to ask that question and to answer it at the same time,” Crudup said in a group interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego over the weekend. “So the experience of doing it was the experience of asking that question every time: Does he have any more humanity left?”

Dr. Manhattan is a former scientist named Jon Osterman, who finds himself transformed into a giant blue humanoid who can manipulate matter, space and time with his mind. He is one of a group of superhero characters in the movie, based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s seminal graphic novel, which is set in an alternate-universe 1985 New York.

Crudup said of Dr. Manhattan: “Mostly he was an entity that was distracted by what for him were a higher order of problems. Which is: How does the universe operate, or how do particles fundamentally [interact]? And he was being asked to be a dutiful man at the same time by his government, so he was trying to attend to both of those while trying to carry on a relationship, and I think ultimately he discovered, through his own journey, that he was no longer as interested in people as he was in the … universe. … So I think my experience of doing it was the experience of asking that question each and every day.” MORE ON SCIFI WIRE

Watchman Teaser Trailer

Watchmen Teased

Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming Watchmen movie, screened new footage from the adaptation of the classic graphic novel–including extended versions of scenes in the current teaser trailer–to fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 25.

The new footage included the first complete shots of Rorschach’s (Jackie Earle Haley) morphing mask, the first clear glimpses of the interior of the Comedian’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) apartment and weapons closet, an image of Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino) and Edward Blake/the Comedian at the 1940s meeting of the Minutemen, an extended version of Dr. Manhattan’s (Billy Crudup) attack in Vietnam, old Richard Nixon and an extended version of the scene in which the Comedian is hurled out his window–the camera tracks him in slow motion going through the glass, out and down toward the street as his blood-spattered smiley-face button twirls into the foreground.

The trailer also includes an extended version of the sequence in which Laurie Juspeczyk (Malin Akerman) and Dr. Manhattan stand in the crystal palace on Mars, a scene of Laurie pulling a canvas off the Owl Ship, Dan Dreiberg (Patrick Wilson) contemplating the Comedian’s smiley-face button in the Owl cave and a closeup of Laurie/Silk Specter II’s kiss with Dreiberg in his Nite Owl costume while a nuclear blast goes off in the background. MORE ON SCIFI WIre

Dave Gibbons Watchman Interview at Comic Con

Jeffrey Dean Morgan at Comic Con talking about the movie

Comic-Con 2008: WATCHMEN Interviews - Billy Crudup and Patrick Wilson

Comic-Con 2008: WATCHMEN Interviews - Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons

Comic-Con 2008: WATCHMEN Interviews - Matthew Goode and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Comic-Con 2008: WATCHMEN Interviews - Malin Ackerman and Carla Gugino