{"id":2197,"date":"2006-06-23T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/oh-look-another-watchmen-director\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T01:20:00","slug":"oh-look-another-watchmen-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/oh-look-another-watchmen-director.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, look, another Watchmen director"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/news\/va\/20060623\/115105829900.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says the latest director to take a stab at adapting Alan Moore\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/newsbites-munich-watchmen-food.html#2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Watchmen<\/a><\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0811583\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zack Snyder<\/a>, who recently finished shooting a not-yet-released adaptation of Frank Miller\u2019s ancient battle epic <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/thermopylae-comes-to-canada.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">300<\/a><\/i>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874844\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alex Tse<\/a> is working on the screenplay.  Of course, so many directors have been involved in this project at one point or another \u2014 including Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass \u2014 that I\u2019m not holding my breath.  Not yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood Reporter says the latest director to take a stab at adapting Alan Moore\u2019s Watchmen is Zack Snyder, who recently finished shooting a not-yet-released adaptation of Frank Miller\u2019s ancient battle epic 300. Alex Tse is working on the screenplay. 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