November 27

[Antonello Blueberry]

There's gonna be a set visit on that day. Hopefully they'll release the first photos.

 

[Cousin Itt]

Hopefully they'll release the first photos.

That would be nice.

 

[sad lieutenant]

There's gonna be a set visit on that day. Hopefully they'll release the first photos.

Sounds good...Who is going on this set visit? And didn't Devin from CHUD (along with others, I imagine) go this past weekend?

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Robert from IESB is visiting the set on November 17. I don't know anything about Devin.

 

[sad lieutenant]

Robert from IESB is visiting the set on November 17. I don't know anything about Devin.

He already went... In his coverage of the Black Freighter update, he confirmed -- and assured pesky Watchmen geeks that he would not be "spilling the beans" any time soon. Fawker.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Yep
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=12358

Now he can. Moviehole has broken the story, and I can confirm it: Warner Bros is coughing up the dough to film Tales of the Black Freighter and include it on the DVD of Watchmen. This was confirmed last week by Zack and his producer and wife Debbie when I visited the set of Watchmen; they told my group of visiting journalists some more stuff about the eventual DVD of the film that I can't talk about - embargoed!* - but rest assured, you're going to want to pre-order this bad boy.

I think that Warner Bros ponying up for the Black Freighter sequences indicates that they're happy with what Zack has been shooting for the last month (I know I'm happy with what I saw). That's especially nice since in that same exclusive interview he told me that the studio didn't quite get what Watchmen was all about. And even better: now that Gerard Butler has left Escape From New York, he's free to star as the shipwrecked sailor!