Rorscharch Sighted

On A side note, kinda... Johnson is no stranger to comic-book adaptations, having written and directed Daredevil and Ghost Rider, both based on Marvel comics characters. In the case of Preacher, however, he felt that a feature film would not do the story justice. "Well, Preacher is 70-something issues," he said. "There was going to be a movie made of Preacher a while ago, and I read the script, and it broke my heart. Because I'm like, 'Oh, it's not a two-hour movie. Preacher's six years—six dedicated years of the most incredible stuff you've ever seen in your whole life. So I always thought HBO was the only way to do that." Absolutely agreed, and had to add that the traumatic almost-two-hours I spend in the cinema enduring Mark Steven Johnson's adaptation of "Ghost Rider", certainly has been courtesy of some spawn from hell intending to throw thirty-five years-thirty five dedicted years of Ol' Flaming Skull's comic coolness straight to hell. For crying out loud, my buddy and I spent the entire movie chanting "Flaming Skulls! Flaming Skulls!" Daredevil was hardly bearable, but Ghost Rider was obscenely bad. And now, one of my all time favourite, "Preacher", one of the best series to ever come out from the Vertigo imprint. Judging from the source material, it's gonna take a genius of a certain proportion and particular talent to screw this up. The problem: Genius specifically of such calibre makes up most of Hollywood. And, I'm more than convinced Mark Steven Johnson's one. Truth be told, in terms of comic adaptation films goes, this is practically the era of "Post Sin City" after the great showing of how it should be done. Thus, the next obvious choice, 300. And after another positive demonstration by Zach Snyder after the decent remade of "Dawn Of The Dead", he's moving on to the holy grail of them comic adaptation. Watchmen. Was so interested that I covered the failed Paul Greengrass/ David Hayter's project in these two entries earlier. And now that Rorscharch himself has shown up in a test shot of himself, complete with Comedian's Smiley button in hand, in a single frame at 1:52 in the R-rated 300 trailer below. As Alan Moore himself put it, "David Hayter's screenplay was as close as I could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen. That said, I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way: in an armchair, nice and cozy next to a fire, with a steaming cup of coffee." Fingers crossed. Updated 15th March 2007: Damn. Warner Bros has taken down the trailer from the ever loving Youtube.