Zack Snyder.
'Nuff said.
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Actually I am holding out hope that visually it'll still work. The thing is what works on a page and what works on the screen are not always the same thing. I don't think any special effort was made to make the characters look "scarier;" it's just that translated literally, Nite Owl's costume would have looked pretty stupid. Silk Spectre is reasonably faithful, and Rorschach and the Comedian look right. Making the costumes tonally darker doesn't mean they wanted them to be "scary;" it's just that they look more credible that way. The X MEN movies did the exact same thing, the first film even adding a self-referential line of dialogue to acknowledge it.
The real problem IMO is in taking the narrative, which is told a lot in voice-over and journal entries (with a few incredibly lobg expositiry monologues), and translating that to film. Alam Moore didn't want it done, but then he doesnt want any of his works made into films. Maybe this one especially, I dont know. I don't expect it to work at all without massive cutting (I am already aware of some), but it may end up being a decent Cliff's notes version of the comic series.
I have long held that the greatest honour you can do to something that is successful in one medium or another is not always to make a movie out of it. But folks seem to disagree, and want to make a movie out of everything. If you'd like to see a brilliant parody of that concept, watch ADAPTATION.
This post has been edited by civilian_number_two: 16 March 2008 - 01:33 PM
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).