Warner Bros. Picks Up Watchmen

The film based on the Alan Moore comic had been dropped by Paramount but gets new life at DC Comics' sister company.

By mrcomicguy - Dec 20, 2005 12:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Watchmen
Source: Entertainment Weekly

Warner Bros. picked up the rights to make the movie adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbons' iconoclastic maxi-series The Watchmen. Paul Greengrass will not direct the film and David Hayter is out as screenwriter.

Paramount had dropped the film earlier this year.

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