Movie News: Scorsese, De Niro to ‘Paint Houses’ - George Romero rises again - First look at “WatchMen”
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Hot MommaFirst look at “WatchMen”
Director Zack Snyder previewed and discussed three scenes from his upcoming graphic novel adaptation “Watchmen” with select members of the press Wednesday. The film is based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ award-winning graphic novel of the same name about a group of subversive superheroes in hiding.
Snyder began the preview _ **spoiler alert** _ with the first 12 minutes of the film. “The Comedian” (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is watching TV when a shadowy figure breaks into his apartment, attacking and eventually throwing him through a window to a bloody death below.
The opening credit montage detailed the early history of “Watchmen” characters from the 1930s to the 1970s. The montage featured the original Minutemen characters including Silhouette (Apollonia Vanova), who was killed alongside her girlfriend in the 1940s.
Next, Snyder showed a sequence detailing the origin of Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), which began with the blue superhero standing on Mars recalling his love affair with a fellow physicist and the experiment that transformed him into a matter-bending superbeing.
Snyder, who directed “300,” said the movie was originally slated to be set in modern times and explained how he slowly persuaded studio Warner Bros. to stay true to the graphic novel’s alternate 1985 setting, where Richard Nixon remains president and outlaws superheroes.
“I was like, ‘What if we just set it back a little further, like 1990?’” said Snyder. “And then we just said that 1985 is cooler because then it would be more of a period movie. That was how, for me anyway, I got as much of the graphic novel back in.”
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George Romero rises again for new zombie film
Director George Romero is beginning production on an untitled thriller. Once again, the antagonists are flesh-eating zombies.Romero first mined zombies with “Night of the Living Dead” and has been cannibalizing the genre since, most recently with “Diary of the Dead.” Romero wrote the new film and began shooting this week in Ontario, with a cast including Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti and Athena Karkanis.
Plot involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.
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Looks like Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro will be returning to organized crime (movie wise that is). Paramount Pictures has set Steve Zaillian to adapt “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the book about the mob assassin who many believe was involved in the death of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. The picture’s title refers to mob slang for contract killings, and the resulting blood splatter on walls and floors. Book was written by Charles Brandt, who befriended Sheeran shortly before the latter’s death in 2003. Among the crimes Sheeran confessed to Brandt, according to the 2004 book, was the killing and dismemberment of Hoffa, carried out on orders from mob boss Russell Bufalino. Scorsese is attached to direct. De Niro will play Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran, who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders.
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