I Hate Fox (and I’m Boycotting Wolverine)
Fox is on track to delay the release of Watchmen.
An attorney for 20th Century Fox said the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the release of “Watchmen.”
U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess last week agreed with Fox that Warner Bros. had infringed its copyright by developing and shooting the superhero flick, scheduled for release March 6.
Feess said Monday that he plans to hold a trial Jan. 20 to decide remaining issues.
Fox claimed it never fully relinquished story rights from its deal made in the late 1980s, and sued Warner Bros. in February. Warner Bros. contended that Fox isn’t entitled to distribution.
Warner Bros.’ attorney said Monday he didn’t know if an appeal was coming, but thinks a trial is necessary and a settlement unlikely.
In case it wasn’t obvious, 20th Century Fox is a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, just like Fox News. If you’re not familiar with Watchmen, it is the most important graphic novel ever written – and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Not even Bill Kristol wrong, I mean like “tenth dentist” wrong. The release of Watchmen – set for 3/6/09 – is effectively the biggest comic book movie event since the release of Superman in 1978, and the early reviews are very, very strong.
So trust me when I say that Fox is giving the geek fanbase the biggest slap in the face since Joel Schumacher put nipples on the Batsuit. So fuck Fox – I’m boycotting all Fox films, including Wolverine. You think you can pull that kind of shit and still get me to come out and see your third rate X-Men spinoff? Not happening. These are the assholes who killed Firefly and released all those shitty Star Wars prequels. They are dead to me. I am an angry, angry geek.
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How could it be the most important graphic novel ever written if I have never heard of it?
Surely you are mistaken.
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Firefly was simply the best series ever canceled in it’s 1st season…..it was brilliant!!
DD – you fail geek 101. Also, go back and read Time’s list of the 100 greatest novels 1923-2005 – it’s the only graphic novel on there.
Stella – In a just world, Firefly could have perhaps jumped to the WB or something. The demand was there, the product was stellar, the people making it had the time of their lives and wanted it to continue. But no, that’s not how Fox works. If they can’t make it work, they they won’t allow anyone else to do so.
Oooo, Firefly… now you’re talking!!!
Even my 60-year-old mother, who makes fun of Star Trek, likes that show, albeit grudgingly.
xstryker wrote:
[snort!] Well, that’s a terrifying thought! 🙂
And since when did comic books become “graphic novels?”
I’m not a comicbook/graphic novel kind of geek, but I have read Watchmen. A geek of that type gave it to me for Christmas one year. It is a good story and I was looking forward to seeing it.
You can tell that it is a graphic novel because it is 200+ pages. 🙂
Is Watchman appropriate for my 11-year-old boy?
I’ll defer to X. I haven’t read it in a decade.
dana you beat me to it graphic novel
what do the call pop up story books?
three dimensional novelas?
Serenity Now!
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Well, actually later…since I just got it in HD through Netflicks.
Dana,
It happened roughly 25 years ago, ya crusty old coot – when Watchmen was published and the art form of the comic book was elevated to literature, and story arcs were compiled into softcover and hardcover volumes that fit comfortably on a bookshelf.
Nemski,
I’d recommend you read it first and then decide (or at least flip through it). What kind of movies do you let him watch, and what kind of books do you let him read? Watchmen is by the same guy who made V for Vendetta – it does not engage in anything gratuitous, but it is a work that deals with serious, mature, adult themes (including some sex and violence, but not a whole lot).
Nemski: I agree with Xstryker — it all depends what kind of thing you normally let him watch/read. There’s plenty of blood, but of course it’s on the page, not spurting as in a film, so it’s easier to take. Some of the subplots will be over his head, unless he’s a student of history who will be able to relate to U.S.-Soviet relations circa 1986.
Dana: This was probably the first “graphic novel,” or at least the first “comic book” that does not have a villain per se. It came out about the same time that Frank Miller reworked Batman as a dark-hearted character instead of a cartoon crime-fighter.