Tse's script

[WalterKovacs]

Well, my best friends cousin is one fo the screenwriters, i forgot to ask which, but we agreed that hes a crappy writer. on the birght side i might get some cool watchmen ****

 

[UltimateJustin]

"You know why I chose to dress as an owl, Veidt? Because owl's are super cool. And just when you think you can hear them coming.. YOU CANT" *owl-a-rang to the face*

 

[I Am The Knight]

Dear lord. THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK just moved up a little closer to 12.

 

[L0ngsh0t]

And therein lies the problem, True Believers.

L0ngsh0t - I'm curious. Could Moore and Gibbons have improved WATCHMEN, do you think, with the addition of a few BIFFS, KA-POWS!, and AIIIIEEEEE!!!s? Summat a little more, y'know... superhero-y?

The novel certainly isn't perfect....but i don't see a need to change it

I wasn't talking about myself, I was talking about the people dropping the 100 million dollars for a superhero movie with little action in it

I have personally always kind of wished there was some sort of bad ass action scene in it, but at the same time I have never felt it being missed whenever i read it

 

[Hoedowned]

Well, my best friends cousin is one fo the screenwriters, i forgot to ask which, but we agreed that hes a crappy writer. on the birght side i might get some cool watchmen ****

Boy, if your relatives think you suck...

 

[WalterKovacs]

Boy, if your relatives think you suck...

Im not convinced the guys ever flat out said "f**k you, you fail at life and more importantly you suck at writing movies, i hope you fall and break ya face." but he and our friend agree he kinda sucka

 

[Spidey-Sean]

Dear lord. THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK just moved up a little closer to 12.

HA HA! The allusion of the Doomsday Clock attributed to the release of a crappy Watchmen movie is hilarious. Unfortunately, with laughs, I think you're on to something.

But remember, Doomsday didn't happen as the public expected in the Watchmen universe. At the last minute, something completely "alien" happened. Has Snymandias already cooked up a plot to save the world of Watchmen from nuclear-production annihilation? Only the inevitable march of the clock face will tell . . . but who re-writes the re-writers?

 

[logansoldcigar]

Once more, with feeling: The Legend Of Zorro, The Island, Mission: Impossible III...



"literary cock-slap to Alan Moore's face"

Freakin' hilarious.

FEEL THE COCK, MOORE!

call me old fashioned, but i were always under the impression that in most cases, the director always approved the script before shooting, and in a lot of cases change it. Looking at at least two of those, MI3 and the Island, do you not think it likely the a meglomaniac director/star didnt have final approval of the scripts?

there are plenty of occasions where the writers version of the script has been butchered by the star/director/studio

 

[Agentsands77]

Snyder polished their rewrite, so I am not that worried.

I'm still worried. Snyder doesn't know how to do script work. The sloppiness of the 300 script showed that much (dialogue lifted from different parts of the graphic novel without changing the tense to make it fit the rest of the dialogue, even). I have no faith in his ability to judge a great screenplay from an okay one.

Let's bring back David Hayter, please.

 

[Lobster Charlie]

I agree with Agentsands77. I'd feel a bit better if they polished up Hayter's draft, preferably taking out "Slingshot," and that giant laser. Everything else in that script was pretty damned good. Didn't Alan Moore say it was probably the best adaptation of the graphic novel?

 

[I Am The Knight]

I agree with Agentsands77. I'd feel a bit better if they polished up Hayter's draft, preferably taking out "Slingshot," and that giant laser. Everything else in that script was pretty damned good. Didn't Alan Moore say it was probably the best adaptation of the graphic novel?

I think Moore said it was probably the closest that someone would get to adapting the novel.

 

[Captain Carnage]

Tse did polish Hayter's drafts (plural)... two of 'em, in fact. That's the express reason he was hired. And he himself came up with several versions, some with a contempoarary setting, others back in the 80s.

And that still clearly wasn't good enough, so now the Transformers Twins have had a bash as well. Oh, and not forgetting that The Zackster himself has been busy rewriting their rewrite of Tse's rewrite of Hayter's.

How many Yank hacks = one Alan Moore, I wonder? We done yet?

Everything else in that script was pretty damned good.

Hayters? What, apart from the aforementioned Sling Shot replacing Silk Spectre and the satellite laser death ray vaporizing NYC? But let's not forget the post 9/11 setting, Middle Eastern terrorists, Veidt sending all the world leaders an electronic black box threatening them to disarm in a hokey blackmail plot, Dan killing Veidt with a flying Owl-a-rang (think Bat-a-rang just... owl shaped), then Dan transmitting peace and love in the form of Beatles song lyrics to said black boxes to reassure our leaders that everything's OK and the world would be a better place if we hugged each other more often.

You mean that script?

It sucked more than a $10 ****e riding a vacuum cleaner into a black hole.

 

[Figs]

Tse did polish Hayter's drafts (plural)... two of 'em, in fact. That's the express reason he was hired. And he himself came up with several versions, some with a contempoarary setting, others back in the 80s.

And that still clearly wasn't good enough, so now the Transformers Twins have had a bash as well. Oh, and not forgetting that The Zackster himself has been busy rewriting their rewrite of Tse's rewrite of Hayter's.

How many Yank hacks = one Alan Moore, I wonder? We done yet?


Hayters? What, apart from the aforementioned Sling Shot replacing Silk Spectre and the satellite laser death ray vaporizing NYC? But let's not forget the post 9/11 setting, Middle Eastern terrorists, Veidt sending all the world leaders an electronic black box threatening them to disarm in a hokey blackmail plot, Dan killing Veidt with a flying Owl-a-rang (think Bat-a-rang just... owl shaped), then Dan transmitting peace and love in the form of Beatles song lyrics to said black boxes to reassure our leaders that everything's OK and the world would be a better place if we hugged each other more often.

You mean that script?

It sucked more than a $10 ****e riding a vacuum cleaner into a black hole.

LOL, I never read that script and im glad I didn't.

 

[Lobster Charlie]

Tse did polish Hayter's drafts (plural)... two of 'em, in fact. That's the express reason he was hired. And he himself came up with several versions, some with a contempoarary setting, others back in the 80s.

And that still clearly wasn't good enough, so now the Transformers Twins have had a bash as well. Oh, and not forgetting that The Zackster himself has been busy rewriting their rewrite of Tse's rewrite of Hayter's.

How many Yank hacks = one Alan Moore, I wonder? We done yet?


Hayters? What, apart from the aforementioned Sling Shot replacing Silk Spectre and the satellite laser death ray vaporizing NYC? But let's not forget the post 9/11 setting, Middle Eastern terrorists, Veidt sending all the world leaders an electronic black box threatening them to disarm in a hokey blackmail plot, Dan killing Veidt with a flying Owl-a-rang (think Bat-a-rang just... owl shaped), then Dan transmitting peace and love in the form of Beatles song lyrics to said black boxes to reassure our leaders that everything's OK and the world would be a better place if we hugged each other more often.

You mean that script?

It sucked more than a $10 ****e riding a vacuum cleaner into a black hole.

Haha! Good one...and I admit, those things I'd overlooked. But I found it pretty good for what it was. I cringed through most of Tse's script.

 

[Shifty]

Adrian Veidt Speaks
Actor Matthew Goode acknowledges that fans want a ending to the Watchmen film that’s true to Alan Moore’s original story.

Actor Matthew Goode, cast to play billionaire super hero Ozymandias, aka Adrian Veidt, in the upcoming Watchmen movie, was recently interviewed by British movie mag Total Film. When asked if the movie will be faithful to the graphic novel, Goode commented:

I'm not sure what's happening with the end of the movie. You know there’s an audience who are going to get pissed off if you start ****ing around with the story and right now [GOODE REVEALS A BLOODY HUGE SPOILER]. I don’t know if I should say that or not.

The spoiler? Any fan familiar with the most recent Tse script (which this site had available for download until we were asked to remove it by the big WB) knows that Goode is referring to the leaked screenplay’s ending which is drastically different from Alan Moore’s original text. An ending that would undercut the entire climax of the film. Goode adds:

Well, can Hollywood deal with that ending? It’ll be interesting…

Watchmen fans have been up in arms about this so much, if you visit any message board that even mentions the upcoming film, you’ll find countless posts spewing anger about this unfaithful ending. There’s even a petition to keep the ending true to the graphic novel on IMDB’s Watchmen movie forum.

The fact that Goode mentioned that he’s “not sure what’s happening with the end of the movie” would lead me to believe there is some debate going on whether or not it should be changed to an ending that aligns better with Alan Moore’s original version. This is one fan that hopes that it will.

Multiple endings filmed?

 

[sad lieutenant]

Multiple endings filmed?

Will we get Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Editions? Fawk that noise!

 

[I Am The Knight]

At least the acknowledge it. Veidt must die! But I wanna really know is, will we get full frontal?

 

[StorminNorman]

I am not going to lie - the fact Goode actually addressed this issue and didn't just bs us makes him my favorite actor on the movie :heart:

Which makes sense since he is playing one of my favorite literary characters.

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

Some dude at IMDB finally posted that infamous Tse's November 10th draft that someone on this board's been tellin' us about. 80s setting and all.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/board/flat/85193220?d=86083728#86083728
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5jtdwy

 

[Captain Carnage]

Yeah, without scrupulously pawing over every single page... that looks to be the version I had access to quite a while back, now courtesy of one "Double You Be". WB. Cute.

Although now that the Transformers Twins have done an alleged page one rejig, bit of a moot point now. Interesting to see how this thing was supposedly going at one point, though, and still the first script I ever saw that reinstated the 1985 setting of the comics. God, how I really hope great big old chunks o' that have been changed for the better...

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

God, how I really hope great big old chunks o' that have been changed for the better...

Like?

 

[Captain Carnage]

No. Me no like.

 

[sad lieutenant]

I'm still worried. Snyder doesn't know how to do script work. The sloppiness of the 300 script showed that much (dialogue lifted from different parts of the graphic novel without changing the tense to make it fit the rest of the dialogue, even). I have no faith in his ability to judge a great screenplay from an okay one.

Let's bring back David Hayter, please.

Why is everyone into this Hayter guy? His script eviscerated much of the comic. And he looks like the dude from Queensryche.

 

[Johnichi Chiba]

Why is everyone into this Hayter guy? His script eviscerated much of the comic. And he looks like the dude from Queensryche.

I think its because of Alan Moore essentially saying that Hayter made the best **** sandwich he ever tasted (paraphrasing, of course). I think some fans are misconstruing that as meaning that Alan wants Hayter to be his personal chef at home, but I think its more of a case of "In the world of **** sandwiches, Hayter is the man!"

 

[Captain Carnage]

Notwithstanding that it was also a **** sandwich made almost five years ago now... well past its use-by date.