Warner Brother’s film ‘Watchmen’ In Legal Lockdown

Warner Bros. film the “Watchmen” (“the Only Movie that Matters” to fanboys everywhere) is in legal hot water.  Nikki Finke, a former Los Angeles Times writer reports on her website, that a judge has denied a Warner Bros motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox’s legal battle over the rights to develop, produce and distribute a film based on the graphic novel Watchmen. Warner Bros had planned to release highly anticipated big-screen version of the popular comic book written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons on March 2009. Fox is seeking to stop Warner Bros from going forward with the project and it appears the judge is currently on their side. Apparently a Warner Bros. producer acquired an option to acquire Fox’s remaining interest in Watchmen that was never exercised. Nikki notes that Warner Bros had a similar problem with the Dukes Of Hazzard movie before Judge Feess and had to pay tens of millions of dollars to release the film.
Watchmen was screened at the recent Comic-Con in San Diego, depicts a 1985 world in which the repercussions of superheroes changed the timeline. Studios have been trying to make Watchmen into a movie since the 1980s when it originally was published.