Will We See the New, Lost 'Watchmen' Pages?
One can only hope...
Dave Gibbons recently gave an interview with Time Magazine as he is out promoting his new book "Watching the Watchmen" in which Gibbons discusses the genesis of the graphic novel, which he co-created with Alan Moore, widely considered the greatest comic of all-time, "Time" actually considers it one of the 100 best novels of all-time. Not too shabby.
In the midst of discussing the book, TIME's book critic Lev Grossman also asked about Watchmen, the upcoming film adaptation set to hit theaters in March 2009. Here's a particularly interesting snippet:
Zack Snyder treated 300, the graphic novel, very reverently when he made 300 the movie. Is he giving Watchmen the same treatment?
Absolutely. If you've seen the trailer, there are a couple of images in there that are exactly the composition I drew on the page. And to actually see the movie – and I've seen a rough cut – is bizarre, because it's like seeing the movie that I was running in my head.
Has Snyder tried to involve you in the production of the movie?
They showed me a very early draft of the movie and solicited my notes on that. There was one sequence that's in the movie that isn't in the comic book, and Zack wanted me to visualize it and draw it as if it were in the comic, and I did, and I got John Higgins to color it. So it' s like lost Watchmen pages! When we saw the rough screening of it in August this year they were almost begging me, the producers: please tell us if there's anything wrong, if there's anything you don't like, please, even if you think we've already filmed it, we can still change it!
For anyone that fell in love with Snyder's 300 I wouldn't be surprised if you picked up the companion book "300: The Art Of The Film" and if Warner Bros. doesn't do something massive such as that with this release they would be crazy. We've already heard about the elaborate plans for the DVD/Blu-ray release why not include Gibbons' new pages in a book about the film?
You can purchase "Watching the Watchmen" at Amazon by clicking here and read the complete interview with TIME right here.
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