Trailer Park: Two Riders Were Approaching
Just noticed they've sneaked a peek at the "two riders were approaching..." scene in the latest Watchmen trailer - possibly my all-time favourite moment in comics. Saw an extended preview of around 30 minutes of footage a few weeks ago with both Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons doing a Q&A afterwards - all looks pretty great to me: the opening sequence is a montage that sets the scene, with lots of nods to the backstory in the book and opening up the idea of an alternate 80s where Nixon is still in power; the prison break scene does have a lot of slow-then-fast-then-slow-mo, a style that might date it later, but they kept in some of the dark humour with Rorschach finding time to finish some business; and the John on Mars scene was played out beautifully, jumping across time (and space) to tell his story and show how alien the human experience has become to him after his accident. What I also liked was that Snyder said that he realised that if he didn't say yes when he was offered it, that the studio would plough on looking for another director, and be v likely to get someone who wasn't a real fan and would be happy to update it from the 1985 setting, go for all the changes they wanted etc etc. As well as the parallel pirate story Tales Of The Black Freighter that will be an animated DVD extra, they're also going to include Under The Hood - a "news documentary" interviewing the original Nite Owl they've shot as if it had been filmed in the 80s, featuring loads of footage of the Watchmen and their precursors, the Minutemen, in action in the 50s and 60s. Sounds like a set of DVD extras you'll actually want to watch, man...
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