Who watches the Watchmen?

I'm pretty psyched out that the Watchmen movie is just around the corner. How can one not be? It's only like one of the greatest graphic novels every. Period. The only thing I'm worried at the moment is the legal battle between evil conglomerate 20th Century Fox and the good people at Warner Bros 20th Century is filing a lawsuit against Warner Bros over distribution and producing rights over the Watchmen movie. Apparently according to 20th Century Fox, between 1986 and 1990, they acquired all movie rights to the 12-issue DC Comics series.

Now here's the kicker. Watchmen was published under DC Comics and Warner Bros owns DC Comics (since 1969). So after they completed the movie all of a sudden those greedy S.O.B's over at 20th Century decide to sue Warner Bros.

"Hey, thats a nifty trailer of that whachamacallit graphic novel. Let's make some money out of it by suing Warner Bros over copyrights and when we finally win, we'll make more money by making it a PG-13 so that young kids can go watch a comic book movie they won't even understand and we'll ruin the movie by asking Brett Ratner to direct and get Hugh Fucking Jackman to be the masked dude with the trench coat. We kill off every character within the first 5 minutes of the movie and Hugh Jackman will save the day with his awesome acting skills."

You disgust me 20th Century Fox. You utterly disgust me . Anyway, bitching aside. DC Direct will be producing action figures from the movie and I am just so tempted to get my hands on them. I'm not really sure about articulations but from what I can see there seem to be some, maybe not Marvel Legends standard but it'll suffice I guess (don't even know why I care since I keep every one of my Marvel Legends collection MISB).

DC Direct 6' Watchmen Action Figures


Rorschach


The Comedian


Nite Owl


Ozymandias



Dr. Manhattan


Silk Spectre


Original Nite Owl


Original Silk Spectre

DC Direct will also be producing 3 13 inch figures of Rorschach, Comedian and Dr. Manhattan. I dunno if I'd get these though since I don't really have any of DC Direct's Deluxe Collector Figure series. But who knows, I might be tempted to get them as well.

DC Direct 13' Deluxe Collector Figure

Rorschach



Comedian



Dr. Manhattan


Tempting. Very tempting indeed. Luckily the movie won't be out till next year and most probably the figures will be out next year as well. I've got a lot of time to save up to get them nice shiny figures, muahahahahaha! As for the movie, I pray everything goes well with the legal battle. In the meantime, I'll just have to wait and hold my breathe till March.

*pictures courtesy of www.watchmencomicmovie.com and toysrevil.net