Movies of 2009

[metirish]

Times of London looks ahead to 2009. Remakes of classics and other stuff.


Red Sonja starring Rose McGowan


The Surrogates graphic novel due to be turned into a movie in 2009/10 starring Bruce Willis. The novel is written by Robert Venditti, drawn by Brett Weldele


Wolfman film 2009 starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt


Terminator Salvation


Movies of 2009

[Benjamin Grimm]

And from Marvel and DC, it looks like 2009 will be bringing us X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Watchmen.

[metirish]

5: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (May)

Hugh Jackman�s back for an X-Men prequel set 17 years before the action of the first movie.The film traces the early career of Logan, the indestructible mutant who will one day be X-Man Wolverine. Cameos from future X-Men and the chance to see how Logan acquired his deadly claws and curious hairdo give the film a geek power that will set the internet buzzing ahead of the premiere. It will be interesting to see how this performs after the third X-Men movie was seen by many to be something of a mis-step in the X-franchise.



4: Watchmen (March)

Alan Moore�s superlative comic book finally, against the author�s will, reaches the big screen. There�s little doubt for anyone who�s read the original comic that this movie will be a huge triumph. We know the ending has been amended but every scene that�s been seen so far is slavishly faithful to Dave Gibbons�s original drawings, with just a few costume tweaks to make Nite Owl look a little less ridiculous and Silk Spectre a little bit sexier. How Watchmen will play to audiences who haven�t already been seduced by Moore�s vision of a parallel universe Cold War showdown between the members of a disbanded hero team remains to be seen. You can be sure, however, that every comic geek in the western world will see this film, and either rave about it or rail against it on the internet for evermore. Blockbuster Buzz on Watchmen Official site TrailerFeaturette


A Transformers sequel out in 09 too.

Edited November 10, 2008 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll have to make it a point to reread Watchmen.

[Zvon]

So....,
who's watching the Watchmen?

The latest trailer:

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/watchmen.html?showVideo=1

[Guest themetfairy]

Zvon wrote: So...., who's watching the Watchmen? The latest trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/watchmen.html?showVideo=1

My daughter cannot wait for it to come out.

[Zvon]

themetfairy wrote: So...., who's watching the Watchmen? The latest trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/watchmen.html?showVideo=1 My daughter cannot wait for it to come out.

Same with my son, lol.
Whenever there's a new preview that's all he can talk about for days.

I've always been a comic fan but Watchman somehow got under my radar back in '86. I must have been all up in the Dark Knight Returns.

I wanted to see what it was all about so I recently got the .cbr files (for viewing comics on a PC) of the entire graphic novel series.
(btw, they are just coming out with "Motion Comic" versions of these-i think 1-4 have been released. Can find em on itunes I think)

I was pretty much blown away by it.
The complexity of the characters, the alternate view of history (Nixon WAS the one TWICE!), and the fantastic plot created by Alan Moore was a totally singular experience.

So I have to admit I'm pretty pumped for the movie myself.