Watchmen
Directed by Zack Snyder
Starring Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
Rated R
Release date: March 6, 2009

This movie should not exist. There have been rumors of its making finally happening for many years. How many acclaimed visionary filmmakers have tried and failed to make this movie? Terry Gilliam, Paul Greengrass, and Darren Aronofsky are the most well known. I’ve been reading the reports of development and false starts in the pages of magazines like Wizard and entertainment web sites since I was a kid. The material first came to me more than a decade ago after I had read about it for many years and after digesting the collected volume in a single setting I stared off into space wondering how in the hell they could ever make a movie of this. It was impossible, a mad folly that would frighten even Werner Herzog. There was just too much in this book to absorb. I myself even attempted to create a movie version in my head just for fun and see how it would play. It practically fried my brain, but then again I wasn’t a director or a screenwriter.

What brave soul would take on Watchmen, the landmark comic miniseries created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons that ran for twelve remarkable issues from 1986-1987 and has been credited with ushering in a darker and more introspective age of comic book storytelling, and not just live to win to tell the tale but conquer the bloody thing? Why did George Leigh Mallory attempt to climb Mount Everest 75 years ago and die in the process? “Because,” as he said in an interview with the New York Times in 1923, “it’s there.” But his son John also had something to add: “To me the only way you achieve a summit is to come back alive. The job is half done if you don’t get down again.” Zack Snyder, the former music video and commercial director who made a blazing feature directorial debut with the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead and followed it with the blockbuster 2007 adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300, took on the mountain that defeated many a great filmmaker before him and reached the goddamned summit.

Disney has released a trailer for their new live-action adventure remake, Race To Witch Mountain.

The movie stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a cab driver who finds out some sibling customers of his are a little different. He finds out that the kids are actually alien life-forms who need to get to Witch Mountain to find their ship before some crazy bounty hunter dude finds them. Carla Gugino (Sin City), AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia), Alexander Ludwig (The Seeker: The Dark is Rising), and Ciarán Hinds (Munich) also star.

Footage shown at the San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year had a lot of people surprised, which lead to a lot of positive buzz. The trailer looks like fun, but nothing insanely unique or eye-grabbing — it is a remake after all.

Check out the trailer below!

For those of you not aware, The Unborn is a new horror movie written and directed by The Dark Knight scribe, David Goyer. A new trailer, images, and a website have now been released to the masses.

The film stars Odette Yustman (Cloverfield), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter), Meagan Good (Saw V), Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down), James Remar (Pineapple Express) with Jane Alexander (The Ring), Carla Gugino (Sin City), and Idris Elba (American Gangster). It’s being released on January 9, 2009. It’s also produced by Michael Bay (Michael Bay!).

With so many God-awful horror movies coming out, we can only hope this one is a terrifying refresher. The movie looks like your typical horror movie concoction — pretty people, people/things twitching and horrifying children. But with the addition of Gary Oldman to that mixture, it may just be worth a peek; there has to be a reason he signed on! Now we play the waiting game to see if it gets the dreaded PG-13 kiss of death.

Check out the trailer, images, and synopsis here below and be sure to visit the official site.