Episodic Game Prequels Upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures' Film Based on DC Comics' Award-Winning Graphic Novel
Last update: 7:00 p.m. EDT July 23, 2008
game captures the action and intrigue of the "Watchmen" feature film, directed by Zack Snyder, who previously helmed the blockbuster "300." The screenplay for "Watchmen" is by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the award-winning graphic novel illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. The film is produced by Lawrence Gordon ("Die Hard"), Lloyd Levin ("United 93") and Deborah Snyder ("300"), with Herbert W. Gains ("The Brave One") and Thomas Tull ("The Dark Knight") serving as executive producers. "Watchmen" is a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Legendary Pictures.

Warner Bros. unveiled its highly-anticipated trailer of the 2009 film The Watchmen in theatres, as well as at the Comic-Con this week. Also, the studio releases photos of the ground-breaking film, which is based on one of the most popular graphic novels.
Digital Journal -- It won't be out until March 2009, but Warner Bros' Watchmen is already enjoying some 2008 hype. Its trailer has been enjoying impressive buzz for those who saw The Dark Knight this past week. Also, the comic-book convention Comic-Con will showcase the trailer this week in San Diego.
Comic-Con followers. Check out some of the images below to get a glimpse at what to expect from the upcoming graphic novel adaptation:

1Up has an exclusive first look at Watchmen, the upcoming videogame prequel to the ground-breaking 12-issue comic book series and movie adaptation.
Coming from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the game will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, but in an unusual move, it will ship in downloadable episodic format via Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and an undetermined PC digital distribution method. The game will take place several years before the events chronicled in theWatchmen comics, when protagonists Rorschach and Nite Owl are younger and better able to handle the punishing demands of crime fighting. The game can be played in either single-player

Warner Bros. has partnered with Deadline Games to create at least two downloadable games based on the Watchmen film.
The first of these episodes will be available alongside the movie launch next March, according to Variety.
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Episodic prequel series for upcoming feature film to hit Xbox 360, PS3, and PC next year.
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
he games will serve as prequels to the film, chronicling the vigilante team of Rorschach and Nite Owl in their earlier days. The game will not only build up the backstories of various characters from the film, but also introduce new opponents into the mix.

By Philip Kollar, 07/23/2008 Alan Moore's classic graphic novel Watchmen ends with the line of dialogue, "I leave it entirely in your hands.

By Stephen Totilo LOS ANGELES - In a somewhat secret room at the back of the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment booth at the E3 show last week, we watched the "Watchmen" video game.
Under a cone of silence and the watchful eye of developers and WBIE studio head Martin Tremblay, we saw something entirely unexpected: "Watchmen" heroes Nite Owl and Rorschach beating up bad guys in a game that looked sharp enough to be a full-scale production built on a modern gaming graphics engine but which will actually be a downloadable, episodic game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC next year.
d in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' legendary 1980s DC Comics miniseries. Its release will be timed

While video games based on films tend to suck large, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) is hoping they can make an exception with the upcoming big screen adaptation of Watchmen. Instead of rushing out a film tie-in for the movie's March 2009 release, Warner plans on creating a pair of shorter, downloadable games based on the movie, Variety reports.
Hoping to have more flexibility to create a high quality product with a shorter production schedule, Warner is looking to avoid the usual trap games tied to films experience: a rushed game that nobody likes.

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has announced that they will be producing a series of video games based on the upcoming big screen adaptation of Watchmen. But you won’t be able to buy these games in stores, instead WBI will be releasing them for download for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The first game is expected in March 2009, around the time of the film’s theatrical release. A follow-up will hit in time for the film’s home video release. Many fans believed that it would be impossible to make a feature film out of the acclaimed graphic novel. Some of those naysayers are beginning to change their tune. But what about a video game adaptation? I’m not sure the series

With the film's release getting ever closer, Warner Bros has decided to go down a different, less travelled road for the accompanying game adaptation.
It is to produce a couple of downloadable game 'episodes' based on the Watchmen, it was revealed today.
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