WATCHMEN Bits & Pieces
So here we are at the beginning of 2008 and already my mind is on a movie that isn’t going to be released until March 6h 2009 but I have been waiting years for this movie so it’s not that surprising. Yes, I am talking about Watchmen and I thought I’d share a recent interview MTV had with Carla Gugino, who plays the role of Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre in the movie. Here’s a couple of snippets:
“It was really one of the craziest, most fun roles I’ve ever gotten to play,” marveled the “Sin City” star, cast as the burlesque dancer who proves to be the most PR-savvy of the complex superheroes. “I start at 25 years old in the 1940s, and I age to 67 years old with full prosthetics in the 1980s. [Sally] is a larger-than-life character. She’s a costumed crime fighter, but her idea of a costume is very Bettie Page-meets-[Alberto] Vargas.”
Yep, that just about describes the character as imagined in the comic. Nice to know that they’re keeping that aspect of her!
Now, anyone who has read the comic knows that Sally Jupiter suffers a rape comitted by one of the other “heroes” – and that is still part of the movie:
“The rape scene is pretty crazy that Jeffrey Dean Morgan and I have,” Gugino insisted. “Not that I would say that’s the one I really want you guys to see. … The title sequence of this movie is going to be extraordinary. We spent many weeks over the time of the shoot shooting it. That’s going to be a very, very special thing that wasn’t scripted, that will be really empowering.”
In those opening credits, Snyder is mixing CGI and real-life footage to establish the close-but-not-quite reality of a “Watchmen” world that mirrors our own. “It incorporates real history and the fictitious world of Watchmen, and so it’s very cool,” Gugino explained. “We meet Nixon and all sorts of people.”
Now, the rape isn’t the reason that I wanted to share this bit with you – even though I am glad that they have left it in (not because I want to see someone raped but because it is fairly important to the plot and helps to define this as not just another superhero movie) – but because of the mini description of the opening credits. Damn, if that hasn’t gotten me intrigued!
To read the full interview click here.
And also over at MTV Zack Snyder, he who is directing Watchmen, has published a “rant” about music but also mentions the state of filming the movie is at:
At the moment, I’m in the final weeks of shooting “Watchmen,” in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since “Watchmen” is a dissection of the superhero genre and forces it to take a long, hard look into the pop-culture mirror, it only makes sense that it’s where my head is at these days. With that in mind, I started thinking about music and whether there were any parallels that could be drawn. Enter Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. Although tonally they are vastly different in many ways, the film and the Cheese-y music share an in-your-face look at the world, calling bullsh– on pop culture in an unapologetic way.
OK, so it’s not much but it’s nice to know that prinicipal photography has nearly finished. Maybe we can get a glimpse of a trailer soon? Please?
Click here to read his full “rant“.
As I’ve already mentioned Watchmen is released on March 6th 2009 so clear your diaries for that day as this is going to be THE movie of 2009!
[Source - MTV via SuperHeroHype]
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