Watchmen 2 Could Be in the Cards

[Bookshelf]

No.

Just no.

Jumping Jehoshaphat no.

They didn't even pull off the first movie all that well. I don't know who in the hell let the thought of a sequel slip into their mind, or an even worse possibility is that whoever it was thought the idea to be good.

I'm going to start praying twice a day that money doesn't talk well enough to let this abomination be created.

 

[bjj hero]

And this is why Alan Moore hates comic book executives. But no, I would not buy it. I would illegally download it off of the internet just to say, "Suck it."

Someone else with a hollow excuse for piracy that can be boiled down to "I want to own it but don't want to pay for it". How droll.

It is mercenary to make a sequel for the sole purpose of printing money but DC (is that the right publisher?) is a company and companies only really care about making money. If they get the right writers and directors in (that doesn't have to be the original writers/directors unless you are an anally retentive fan boy) and give them enough time and money then it could still be a good film.

Having said that I've not seen the original so I doubt I'll be seeing the sequel

 

[undyingdh777]

ALSO, CAPS LOCK = CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME

THAT IS ALL

Even with cruise control you still have to steer.

OT: No, this would be horrible.

 

[McBurks]

The movie was fine where it ended,don't need to add any more to it.

 

[Captain Blackout]

This is almost as stupid as that talk about a 300 sequel that was going around a bit back... almost...

They make this abomination so help me God you and I are going to pirate it ASAP and release virally for free to everyone in an attempt to make certain they can't even make back their investment on it DiDio needs to be sent to ADX in Colorado now, as in it should have happened before yesterday.

EDIT: How does 300 get made into a se...... Lemme ask this again. How do you make a se....

I can't even ask, that makes so little sense.

 

[Callate]

Um, frankly, I think this is sheer BS.

Watchmen did okay... Finally... but it wasn't some awe-inspiring blockbuster. According to boxofficemojo, it had a domestic take of about $108 million on a production budget of $130 million. You have to add the foreign take (a little under $78 million) before it made back its production budget. Generally speaking, those numbers don't take the costs of advertising into account, let alone the cost of whatever settlement Warner Bros. came up with with Fox. And I wouldn't put money down that Fox wouldn't get a cut of any sequels as well, depending on how said settlement was written.

I don't know how it did on DVD, of course. It's possible that it cornered the geek market. But I wouldn't really expect those numbers to make it into a clear-cut profit-making machine.

If I were in a high position in the studio, would I take a huge risk on creating a sequel to a license that was no end of trouble legally, could be a highly visible failure, made only a modest profit in its original form, and which its creators and fans alike would have non-trivial reasons to heap with disdain?

I'd put somewhere between even and 2-1 odds against this miniseries ever materializing, and 10-1 against another movie. And I'm prepared to stand by that, whether it means laughing or eating my words.

 

[Nurb]

Dammit, they better not. Hollywood, for the past decade cannot write for shit, writers have become retarded on the west coast and are unable to develop characters or produce an interesting story. Add onto the fact it'll be a sequel to an original classic held close to fans' hearts, and it is GURANTEED to be horrible.

I fully endorse piracy to take money away from the greedy, clueless studio execs that drool over the prospect of milking the Watchmen ala Lucasarts and star wars.

 

[Terrorist_school_drop-out]

It's an incredible comic and an incredible movie(best of last year for me), so please, preety please, don't rape this one too. I mean it's like making Fight Club 2: The return of Tyler Durden, it's just completely stupid. But I would lie if I said I didn't expect something like this.
Oh well, at least Michael Bay isn't atached to this....yet.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

NO No no no.

I love Watchmen. I really liked the film, but no new material. Especially not a sequal.

 

[bassfu]

Finally, a glimmer of hope that Watchmen Babies could be a reality.

 

[GeekFury]

If they try, I'm sure Alan Moore will come and harvest their souls, so he can use them as toilet paper. Seriously, that mans scary, he did'nt get his powers by selling his soul to satan, he beat satan up ad told him to make him more awesome!

 

[Jared]

NO.

Hasn't Watchmen been treated badly enough already? They will NEVER be able to make a film that even approaches the complexity and scope of the graphic novel. This sequel should not be made.

Definetly. The graphic ovels were great, and all movies could really do would be to butcher it further.

Leave a good francise alone~

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Oh no no no no NO!!!

Don't you dare, you soulless, greedy cockmongers!

 

[D0WNT0WN]

 

[Redweevil]

Maybe if they didn't focus on the Watchmen, rather look at the Minutemen in their prime days could be interesting

 

[Svenparty]

I think a film of the first was worthy of the book but I don't think Watchmen 2 is a good thing.

It might turn out like S.Darko Urgh

 

[TheRealCJ]

Don't they remember what happened the last time a classic series-that-defined-a-genre got a years-later sequel/prequel?

Jar Jar Binks.