As someone who’s a big fan of the graphic novel I’m not too sure how to feel about this. On one hand, while I think the Snyder movie did a fairly respectable translation of the comic to movies I do think there was still too many issues with that movie to prevent that from being a definitive adaption so I do think there’s an opportunity to do a better adaption of the series than what that movie did. Though on the other hand, Warner Animation has had a pretty dismal track record as of late with their DC movies, which so far has been pretty forgettable & animation has been pretty bad and cheap. So I’m not expecting much.
As much as I like to think the WB animation team will likely bring their A-game to this project because it’s based on arguably the most celebrated comic of all time I could just as easily see them screwing this up, and making another mediocre movie with cheap animation. Watchmen, given the prestige that it holds, deserves the all-star treatment with quality animation, voice acting, and music but…this is direct-to-video release which means this is not going to get any of that. At the very least the animation isn’t going to be high quality and I don’t see them fairing too well in their approach to adapting. So I don’t have much faith in them to do this properly. I’d love to be proven wrong though, but I’d much rather see them try a property that hasn’t been adapted.
