Who watches the Watchmen? Nobody.

[Shockeye]

Plug Pulled On Watchmen Movie

Paramount has pulled the plug on its proposed film version of Watchmen, Alan Moore's celebrated superhero graphic novel, Variety reported. Producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin were taking the project, with British director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy) attached, out to other studios, the trade paper reported.

Watchmen came under heavy scrutiny in the wake of Paramount chief Brad Grey's surprise move to replace Donald De Line with Gail Berman as studio president in late March, the trade paper reported. De Line found out about the change while in London meeting with Greengrass about Watchmen and the need to cut its budget, rumored to be $100 million, the trade paper reported.

Paramount had been aiming for a summer start, but began releasing crews working on preproduction at that point.

[HaemishM]

Bah, it's probably for the best. I'm sure they've have fucked it up anyway. The director's overuse of the yakomatic cam in Bourne Supremacy certainly didn't bode well.

[Shockeye]

Bah, it's probably for the best. I'm sure they've have fucked it up anyway. The director's overuse of the yakomatic cam in Bourne Supremacy certainly didn't bode well.

Seems Batman Begins has the yakomatic cam as well.

[schild]

Fuck.

[Shockeye]

They taketh away and they giveth.

Ay Caramba! "Simpsons" Movie Going

By Josh Grossberg 1 hour, 40 minutes ago

Get ready to toast your Flaming Moes to some excellent news.

The Simpsons movie is off the drawing board and in preproduction.

"You know what? We've just done the table read for The Simpsons movie, so although we've been promoting that we're going to do it, now we're actually doing it and are in production," Nancy Cartwright, who gives voice to Bart Simpson, told BBC Radio 1 this week.

Cartwright, in London doing publicity for her one-woman show, My Life as a Ten-Year-Old Boy, indicated that the movie is still in the preliminary script development stage and it will take at least two years before it's fully animated and ready for release.

"I don't know the name of it, and I can't go into details about it, and we'll just have to see how it goes, but I think it's going to be great and the fans are going to dig it," she added.

Producers had always indicated that the movie would likely debut after the TV show ran its course. But with the show continuing to perform well, averaging about 10 million viewers last season, the Simpsons brain trust decided to move forward now, according to a rep for 20th Century Fox, which will distribute the Simpsons film.

"They are working on hammering out a script, but there's no title or production date or release date," studio spokeswoman Antonia Coffman told E! Online Wednesday. "We always wanted the show to end first but it just keeps going. Now they've worked out a team to simultaneously do [both the film and show]."

Rumors of a Simpsons movie seem to surface every few years, usually sparked by the 'toon's mastermind, Matt Groening, which then sends long-time Homer honks into a frenzy of anticipation. But such talk turned out to be premature in the past as Groening and fellow executive producers James L. Brooks and Al Jean chose to wait for the show to wind down.

The closest The Simpsons has come to the big screen was a computer-generated Homer cameo for the 2000 IMAX 3-D flick, CyberWorld.

Coffman says that there are still many details to iron out before the feature kicks into high gear, including who's going to do the animation--Film Roman, which has done so since the TV series' inception, or another production house.

This fall will see The Simpsons embark on season 17. Fox and show producers foresee the cartoon cast fulfilling its current contract, which runs through a 19th season.

[schild]

Yea, that's what the Simpsons need. A final nail in the coffin. That corpse has been smelling for about 3 years now. Enough already.

[SurfD]

While we are talking about odd movie shit.  I recently read a small blurb in our latest Tribute Magazine at work that there is appears to be a Transformers: Live Action movie being floated around.  The mind cringes......

[Riggswolfe]

The Transformers movie is old news. The scary part is who is attached to it. Michael Bay among other people.

[Velorath]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Watchmen would have sucked.  Anyway, not every good story needs to be made into a movie.  If anything I'd like to see more cartoon series like Spawn, except based on... better comics.

[Lord Craxton]

The Transformers movie is old news. The scary part is who is attached to it. Michael Bay among other people.

I'd heard.

[Llava]

About Watchmen:
Good.  Good comic, no way it would've been turned into a good movie.  Maybe if you got Robert Rodriguez to do it, since he seems to have the balls to put a comic book on the screen without trying to run it through the movie-o-matic.  What would they do to Rorschach?  What would they do to Ozymandias?  I can already imagine him cackling madly over his desk in the arctic, screaming "UNLIMITED POWER!!!"

About The Simpsons:
I would've been excited about this maybe 5 years ago.  That's when I stopped feeling the magic.  And I've watched and rewatched episodes from both periods, and it's not just my imagination- there was a SERIOUS decline in quality.  As far as I'm concerned, the Simpsons are already cancelled.  I will look at the movie the same way I look at any movie for an already cancelled TV show (like Bewitched, for example)- through a lens tempered heavily with skepticism.

[Daydreamer]

I will look at the movie the same way I look at any movie for an already cancelled TV show (like Bewitched, for example)- through a lens tempered heavily with skepticism.

*cough* Firefly *cough*

[Yegolev]

Rather see a Life In Hell movie.  Assuming a close correlation to the comics.  What about a Futurama movie?  Why an 88-minute Simpsons episode?

[Llava]

I will look at the movie the same way I look at any movie for an already cancelled TV show (like Bewitched, for example)- through a lens tempered heavily with skepticism.

*cough* Firefly *cough*

Wasn't a fan of the show, still not sure if I'm going to like the movie, my position stands.

[Viin]

Wasn't a fan of the show, still not sure if I'm going to like the movie, my position stands.

Before anyone else:

 DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Llava]

Sorry to defy the hive mind.

[schild]

Don't worry, I thought Firefly was too slowpaced for a human vegetable. You aren't alone Llava.

[Llava]

I like Whedon and all, I disagree with most folks about the later seasons of Buffy, but I never really liked Angel and Firefly just isn't my style.  Not that I thought it was bad or anything, it just never grabbed me. <shrug>