How The Studios Would Have Ended 'Watchmen' (A Storyboard)
Apparently, Zach Snyder was pretty loyal to the graphic novel. Some have said he's been loyal to a fault. For those folks, we present Chris Sims's look at the ending the studios would have gone with ...
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Seems Legit
ReplyAt least the storyboards weren't in slow-motion.
ReplyThat was better than the entire movie.
Replyyep
Meh, Rorschach still caused some s**t in the end, even if potentially.
This was hilarious...
ReplyIt burns! It burrrrrrrns!
ReplyI'd pay good money just to see Rorschach beat Dr. Manhattan. Better yet, Ozymandias blows up everything, Manhattan blows up Ozymandias, Rorschach super-ker-pwns Dr. Manhattan for fun.
ReplyI can't believe i actually thought the dark knight was edgy for a comic book movie, watchmen was just plain awesome. I glad they didn't dress it up for mainstream audience.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesLOL, they actually DID water it down for the sheeple.
YOU are the mainstream audience d*****t!
I think the best non-mainstream graphic novel movie is Pan's Labarynth, followed by Sin City. Massive fan of both the books and the movies. I agree with guyperson, they castrated Watchmen. It's like Transmetropolitan, unfilmable.
What? How did they castrate it? Other than switching out the giant squid thing for Manhattan as the cause of the explosion, they followed the book almost religiously. I honestly thought it was a good interpretation, I don't care what Alan Moore says.
the fact that you don't care what Alan Moore thinks is why you fail. Pan's Labyrinth was not a "graphic novel movie," and while we're on the subject the term "graphic novel" is a load of apologetic bullshit. Also, it was a giant vagina monster, not a squid and it's omission cost the movie its credibility.
^ Watchmen was a comic series, not a graphic novel. Too many of Moore's fanbois can't even get that right.
You forgot the last panel, where Rorschach and Nite Owl II run towards the camera like in the final scene of Batamn Forever. Dark background and shit.
ReplyI met a traveller in an antique land
ReplyWho said 'Six vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert
And on the pedestal these words appear
My name is Ozymandias, King of Ants
Look on my feelers, termites, and despair
I am the biggest ant you'll ever see
The ants of old weren't half as bold and big
And fierce as me'.
If the studios had actually asked me to storyboard this ending. I'd laugh, cry, and then quit.
ReplyThat WOULD'VE been an interesting ending.
ReplyAnd that was a sweet bicycle kick by Rorschach.
thank you for leaving out blue guy's penis.
ReplyHe didn't leave it out. A HOLLYWOOD studio left it out.
dduurrr.....
Replywait, the plan doesn't = kittens it INVOLVES kittens? or blowing up all the kittens in the city.. THAT must be it!!! you diabolical fool! Kill the internet with no more LOLcats i understand now it all makes sense....*pass's out*
Replyway to ruin the directors cut Mr. Sims
ReplyI am installing a Doomsday button in my room
ReplyI love how Ozymandias is hung like a horse.
ReplyThat's his skirt dude.
WW3=Bad
ReplyFree Kitties
ahahah ha
how did roscharch get his mask on so fast?
Replyanything that let's Rorschach live to extract crazy justice is ok in my book.
ReplySequel hooks? Meh, sometimes conclusive endings (excepting for Rorschach's diary in the end, I guess, but that was in the comics) just work better.