'Watchmen' Video Journal #6: The Look of 'Watchmen'

Is it that time already? Yeah, even with a couple of weeks of possibly distressing news about the release of Watchmen (Fox wants to stop Warner Bros. from releasing the film, destined to be a big hit, because of its own contractual obligations with the property), we're back here on or around the sixth of the month, and that means we have another video journal from the set. It's actually been a very educational series of videos, if you go back and take a look at them. They're very process-oriented, and I don't think we've heard from a movie star yet. Billy Crudup is seen here but he's not the focus at all. In the sixth of twelve Watchmen journals, which premiered at IGN, we're hanging around with Larry Fong, the director of photography, who discusses how he and director Zack Snyder are achieving the very specific look of the graphic novel on film. Make no mistake about it: Watchmen is not intended to be Fantastic Four, and yes, that is a shot at Fantastic Four. This production looks and feels a lot more like a big-budget art movie than a comic book geekgasm. Hopefully, the trial, scheduled for January 6th (coincidentally, the day another of these 12 journals will be released), will clear up the confusion and Watchmen can still make it into theaters on March 6th.