Today, Watchmen and 300 director Zack Snyder is launching cruelfilms.com, the website for his production company Cruel and Unusual Films, and has provided EW.com with this never-before-seen image from one of the opening scenes from Watchmen, which opens March 6. The image, Snyder says, is one of the first glimpses audiences will have of the film’s anti-hero, Rorschach, as he shoots a grappling gun into the Comedian’s
apartment while investigating his fallen comrade’s mysterious death.
(More on the film in a bit.)
"We just wanted to have a place where people could see what
we’re up to," Snyder tells EW.com exclusively about the site. "As a
company, we’re into a lot of cool stuff, like aesthetic and design. The
movies we make, and are making, feed a lot off of pop-culture." The site includes a section called The Lounge, where the company — which includes company co-president Deborah Synder (who’s also Zack’s wife), and producer Wesley Coller — list what they’re watching (the anime film Appleseed), reading (Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead) and listening to (Allison Crow’s "Hallelujah"). Snyder also invites artists to submit versions of the Cruel and Unusual Films logo: A rough-and-tumble anime Catholic schoolgirl called Baby Doll who’ll be the heroine of Snyder’s in-the-works project Sucker Punch. "I always thought it would be cool, like, ‘Hey, Frank Miller, you should draw a version of Baby Doll,’" Snyder says. "[Drawing her] is kind of a fun assignment, you know, for the world."
The rest of the site includes an eclectic collection of links to sites that have captured the company’s fancy — including the website for Violet’s Cakes, a cupcake confectionery owned by Snyder’s ex-wife — and a listing of all of Cruel and Unusual Films’ projects. Watchmen, based on the famed graphic novel, just had a massive weight lifted from its shoulders after Warner Bros. and Fox settled a legal dispute over the rights to the film — a dispute that had threatened to keep the finished film out of theaters indefinitely. The settlement, Snyder says, is "a big relief to me. I’m glad that cooler heads prevailed and the fans are not going to have to resort to any criminal acts." He laughs. "I’m half-joking. I’m glad there’s that kind of passion [about the movie], I guess."
More on Watchmen and Zack Snyder:
‘Watchmen’: An Exclusive First Look
‘Watchmen’: The Fox/WB suit is settled
‘Watchmen’: A chat with director Zack Snyder
A sneak peak at the ‘Watchmen’ movie
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Cool site. Can’t wait for Watchmen. Finally! Loving Allison Crowe.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! He’s gonna shoot me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
This is the film I want to see so badly! If you have not read the graphic novel read it right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This movie will work on so many levels, even more so for people who have seen at least one superhero movie before. I for one cannot wait till the world gets a load of Rorschach, a hero who has lost his sanity, and has become as iconic a sociopath as Hannibal Lecter or Heath Ledger’s Joker. Since the action occurs mostly in 1985, I hope we’ll hear bits and pieces of eighties music coming from boom boxes, jukeboxes and music stores. WATCHMEN might even be the love letter to the 80’s, BACK TO THE FUTURE was to the 50’s… In a kiss off sort of way.
I forgot to mention that the wait for this graphic novel (chosen by Time magazine as one of the top novels of the 20th century) adaptation has been 22 years long and that… In Zack We Trust.
Very happy to see them reading Victor Davis Hansen. Now if only they would add “Lost” to the shows they are watching.
Snyder is a hack and this movie should never have been made.
William is an inbred and should never have been born.
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