Soundtrack: Who’s watching The Watchmen?
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Not the original graphic novel author Alan Moore apparently. But that doesn’t mean we won’t check it out when it’s released (ages away), March 6th, 2009. But as Moore’s pedigree includes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V For Vendetta (both with equal prior beefs with Hollywood), there is much soon-to-be had hype for the project. The Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before it was culled into a trade paperback. Remarkably for a graphic novel, it won a prestigious Hugo Award in 1998. Straight off the helming duties of “300”, Zack Snyder is directing this adaptation and is turning himself into something of a pedigree also. He really tore it up on Frank Miller’s graphic novel.
We’re really wondering what music lushness could be created from such a fantastic story. Just announced today, director Zack Snyder is signing on his "300" composer Tyler Bates to create the dark soundscapes for this one.
Synopsis: Watchmen, based on the award winning graphic novel by Alan Moore, is set in an alternate 1985 America where costumed heroes are a part of the world's history, and the "Doomsday Clock", which measures the tension between the USA and the U.S.S.R. is constantly at five minutes to midnight. Rorschach, a vigilante who refused to retire when his teammates did, is drawn out by the murder of one of his colleagues, and pulled into a world-wide conspiracy with terrifying implications for the future of mankind.
Watchmen stars Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie, Carla Gugino and Matt Frewer. Watchmen opens across America on March 6th, 2009.
A smiley pin never looked so good.
Check out this great interiew with Zack Snyder on the upcoming epic:
