Warner Bros. and DC have gone again to the world of Watchmen on and off ever because the 2009 live-action film. Whereas it’s been a number of years because the final time they returned to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ world, they’ve apparently nonetheless received Watchmen fever and are actually trying to convey the superhero story as a film as soon as extra, however this time animated.

Throughout its latest panel on the Annecy Animation Movie Competition, WB Animation supplied a primary have a look at the animated adaptation. Whereas it sports activities CG animation within the vein of Battle of the Tremendous Sons, every thing else seems to be kind of because it was within the comedian: Rorschach has growly narration, you see Physician Manhattan’s origin, and so forth. Zack Snyder’s adaptation was dinged for what it overlooked or modified, so if that was what stored you from watching or having fun with that, this new model could also be extra your velocity. (That mentioned, who is aware of how a lot, if any, these films will adapt Tales of the Black Freighter, a comic-within-a-comic.)

Watchmen was introduced final yr alongside the animated model of Disaster on Infinite Earths. Earlier than that time, rumors had been swirling across the web for years alongside the concept of a Watchmen follow-up, which we ultimately received with the aforementioned Doomsday Clock and the HBO live-action sequence. DC loves itself some Watchmen, however do we want… this? Are we not at some extent the place this explicit comedian will get to lastly relaxation and never be trotted out on stage each decade? Past being animated, what’s going to this new model in the end supply that may’t be present in simply studying the comedian or accepting that Snyder made his adjustments and grabbing the film to look at over the weekend?

The primary a part of Watchmen will launch later this yr—the Blu-ray web site lists a date of August 13, which is presently unconfirmed—and Chapter II will launch in 2025.

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