Watchmen Suit Settled - About Freakin' Time!

After a few months of wrangling over the Watchmen movie, Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox are finally finished fighting and are now ready to play nice, according to this Newsarama posting.

I love this wording: "Warner Bros acknowledges that Fox acted in good faith in bringing its claims, which were asserted prior to the start of principal photography. Fox acknowledges that Warner Bros. acted in good faith in defending against those claims. Warner Bros. and Fox, like all Watchmen fans, look forward with great anticipation to this film’s March 6 release in theatres."

Well, the fans have acted in good faith in putting up with false starts and rumors about this film for 22 years. Although, considering how bad comic book films were before Spider-Man came out, maybe the insanely long wait works in our favor.

And I'm so glad that WB and Fox are fans just like us. I'm sure they've just been dying to see Ozymandius, Rorscach, Nite Owl and Dr. Manhattan on the silver screen. They're probably so relieved to see this movie coming out that they'd say "forget the money - let's get this great story out there so everyone can enjoy it!"

Bwaa Haaa Haaa!

Add this immensely long wait to Alan Moore's complete opposition to the movie, and you've got quite a little story about a film that really looked like it would never be made.

What's most humorous to me is that Warner Bros has to shell out oodles of cash for the film rights to a property that was theirs to begin with.

The good news is that the stills and trailers are giving me a sense that the movie could actually be really good. It looks good, anyway. Considering all the buzz that's been building for the last year or so, it better be.