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MOVIE & TV NEWS
Watchmen
Newsarama
says that Adam Hughes is designing costumes for the film version of Alan
Moore and Dave Gibbons' "Watchmen."
Hughes told the site how he got the job: "I'd
like to say that my work spoke for itself, and my draftsmanship and Dave
Gibbons-lie clean lines just called to them . . . or something .
. . but I really have no idea. Maybe the movie guys walked through a comic
shop looking for somebody - anybody to design their costumes, and some
boobs called out to them from the rack. That's a pun, by the way . . .
But seriously - - I have no idea. Maybe they just liked my stuff.
Zack Snyder is working
on 300 [based on the
graphic novel by Frank Miller],
so obviously he reads the occasional comic or two, one could deduce; but
all in all, they got in touch with us, and it was all very causal."
What will the job be? Hughes answers: "When
you get on the other side of the fence, you sort of understand that there
are certain things that wouldn't survive a direct translation from comic
to screen. Superman and Spider-Man look virtually identical to their comic
book counterparts. Batman doesn't, but yet he still has Batman's silhouette,
and that seems to be enough for most people. But continuing, the X-Men
hardly resemble themselves at all - - but they still work. In doing something
like this, I find that I end up thinking about two completely different
groups within the movie's audience at the same time: the die-hard comic
book fans who will not permit even an iota of alteration; and then you've
got your non-comics readers who will be turned off the minute somebody
walks out in a leotard. You have to come up with something that allures
and entices them and their debit cards and their dollars without being
so radical that it turns off the die-hard fan. It's actually pretty hard
work. In a comic book, because it's all graphic abstraction, it's easier
to accept something that's completely insane. But in a movie, you can make
stuff that's slightly insane - - something that, if you saw someone
walking down the street in it, you'd think, 'No,' but there's something
about the context of a movie that allows the slightly bizarre to become
acceptable, just like where comics allow the amazingly bizarre to become
acceptable. So now it's a matter of, 'Okay, how do we take the Silk Spectre
from the amazingly bizarre to the slightly bizarre?' After all, she wears
an outfit that you could pull right out of Victoria's Secret . . ."
Johnny
5, In Trouble Again
Moviehole.net
reports that a remake of the 1985 film "Short
Circuit" may be coming soon. They said: "'Shirt
Circuit,' John Badham's
1986 sci-fi comedy/adventure, about a wacky experimental government robot
named Johnny 5 who flees the government and ultimately ends up hiding out
with a suburban sweetie (Ally
Sheedy), is about to get a contemporary do-over. There have been rumours
about some kind of continuation of the franchise for a while now, but this
is the first that someone up the food chain has actually acknowledged the
buzz. It's believed some of the original gang - - sans Badham - -
are involved in the remake."
Deadman
Gary
Dauberman is working with director and producer Guillermo del Toro to create
an adaptation of the DC
Comic "Deadman."
The character is the ghost of a murdered circus acrobat who has the power
to possess the different living beings in order to seek out his killer
and help the innocent. Del Toro may direct.
Addam's
Family DVD
If
you are like me and hailed the release, finally, of the Addam's
Family TV Show on DVD recently you have good news coming. TVShowsOnDVD.com
says that the second volume of the series will be coming on March
27th, and contain the last 12 episodes of the first season and the first
9 episodes of the second. That will make the rest of the show fit on volume
3. For the full story go here.
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