Back in February news appeared that 20th Century Fox had filled a lawsuit against Warner Bros over Zack Synder's upcoming Watchman movie. The whole case is a bit complicated and here is what it's all about: Fox claims that between 1986 and 1990, it acquired all movie rights to the 12-issue DC Comics series and screenplays by Charles McKeown and Sam Hamm. In 1991, Fox assigned some rights via a quitclaim to Largo International with the understanding that the studio held exclusive rights to distribute the first…

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Actress Carla Gugino told MTV News that the rape scene in Zack Snyder's Watchmen will be kept in the film, and it will be brutal.

“It was really brutal. It was brutal to shoot,” Gugino said of the scene, in which the Comedian (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) attacks an young Sally Jupiter, who only manages to avoid getting raped by the timely intervention of fellow mask Hooded Justice. “That was one of the things [director] Zack [Snyder] said to me from the start: ‘I really want…

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G4 were invited on the set of Zak Snyder's Watchmen, and luckily for us they took a camera with them. We get to see a few sets, storyboards and Rorschach unmasked!…

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Plasmic Studio are a website all things flash, and they have used their flashy skills to compare original posters for Watchman, to the new recently released ones we got a week or two ago. Here is one below!

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I'd gathered from the Watchmen trailer that is wasn't going to be the feel good movie of the year, however I didn't expect it so dark that it would give the actors a hard time. RopesOfSilicon spoke to Jeffrey Dean Morgan about his role as The Comedian: "Getting into the heads of these characters was kind of an ordeal. The actions of The Comedian are brutal sometimes." He continued, "This is stuff that's a little different than anything I have ever done, and it was…

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Warner Bros have released the Comic Con character posters from Zack Snyder's Watchmen. Click on the posters to enlarge!…

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Watchmen characters will be gracing the front cover of the September issue of Empire magazine. There are two covers to choose from, 'blue man in thong' and 'Robert Downey Jr. lookalike with cigar'. Empire also have 3 new exclusive images that will pop up in the magazine. You can see them by clicking here!…

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One of the best trailers I have seen in a long while is for Watchmen (you can watch it again here). So any fan made attempts or trailer mash-ups of it will interest me hugely. The one below is probably the best I have seen. It was made by DrewboiX and uses footage from Heroes and the music from the Watchmen trailer. Enjoy!…

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We've just seen the trailer and now Entertainment Weekly are getting in on the action by giving AICN an exclusive look at their Watchmen front cover.

The trailer for Zack Snyder's Watchmen is now online. It originally appeared over at Empire but they soon took it offline due to all of the traffic. It took around 5 minutes to stream the 2 minute 30 second trailer. Thankfully it can be viewed in other form such as below! The visuals look amazing. I haven't read the graphic novel so this is all new to me. However there is a good chance I will be seeing this when it comes out...in 2009…

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