Details of our Watchmen Podcast Prelude
We discussed the Comic Books
The comic was a 12 issue limited series by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and Lein Wein (Who was an editor alongside Dick Giordano and Barbara Kesel).
Perfectly suited to comics as a medium.
Multiple time periods, multiple storylines, multiple storytelling methods (Black Freighter the comic within a comic, Under The Hood the tell all biography, interviews in newspapers sit alongside the actual comic story.)
Alan Moore is a one and done kind of guy. So once the book Watchmen was released he’s out. The TV show involves Dave Gibbons as an exec producer.
We discussed Zack Snyder’s Watchmen 2009.
There are a number of cuts of the film. The Theatrical version (2 hours 43 mins), Directors Cut, Ultimate Cut(3 hours 25 mins), Animated Black Freighter movie, Under the Hood documentary were all made by Zack Snyder in his quest to film the unfilmable.
He changed the ending from the comic but kept very close on most other things.
The movie cost about €130 million to make and made about $185 million at the box office ($185,253,487). That was good for an R-Rated movie before the billion dollar era of Marvel. Despite this the movie was very divisive among cinema goers. Budget and box office date from BoxOfficeMojo.com (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=watchmen.htm).
Watch the official trailer for Watchmen
Some quotes and interviews about the show with Damon Lindelof
We talked about some of Damon Lindelof’s comments from the Watchmen cast and creators interview at BUILD NYC. He talks about the inspiration that he took from the following Atlantic Magazine article “The case for Reparations” by Ta-Nahesi Coates. We highly recommend reading the article. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
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Thanks so much for listening to our Watchmen Podcast Prelude. We’ll be back with our review of Watchmen Episode 1 “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice” after the episode airs on HBO at 9 PM on Sunday the 20th of October.
Derek and John
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Date Recorded: 13/07/2019
Date Published: 15/07/2019