A number of "Watchmen" huge fans have signed petition to show their disapproval of The 20th Century Fox's winning the legal battle over Warner Bros. Pictures for the distribution rights of the adventure-fantasy flick. The encounter would likely affect some of Fox's biggest upcoming films as fans have started threatening to boycott the studio's "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
"I solemnly swear: if Watchmen ends up on the list of great movies that almost made it, I will be leading the charge to make Fox PAY. I will slam every one of the crap movies and TV shows they put out, and use every bit of my blogger-power (it's about 3/4 as potent as flower-power) to downright brainwash every suggestible reader into boycotting any movie released by 20th Century Fox until Watchmen sees the light of day," Vic Holtreman of ScreenRant.com writes. "(Sorry Wolvy, you'll be my first victim. Just to let these stuffed-suits know I ain't playing!) Fox will come to learn the TRUE meaning of the word 'backfire,' and I think I speak for a great many Watchmen fans when I say that."
Greater than signing petition, some furious fans even are threatening to ban and damage the upcoming "Wolverine" via piracy, "presumably, by making a crappy cam recording of the film and posting it somewhere on the Internet for illegal download," comics2film.com reports on its site.
Regarding the negative response fans have shown, a Fox spokesman commented, "Of course we are concerned about the fans; however, any disappointment from the core fans should not be directed toward Fox. What we are doing is seeking to enforce our distribution rights to Watchmen. Legal copyright ownership should not just be swept under the rug and ignored."
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In my opinion, the writer who posted the comment on Vic Holtreman's site is obviously ignorant of the fact that it is actually WB who are potentially at fault here not Fox. If Fox own the distribution rights, they own the distribution rights. It's simple! If WB are either too stupid or too bloody minded to have taken this issue seriously (before the film went into production I might add) then who are we to say that they shouldn't suffer financial loss as a result?
Just let the movie go as plan. I'm looking forward seeing the movie.
Ban ALL FOX Advertising... Tell the companies that advertise on FOX Networks you are banning the products sold with commercials on FOX. This will get noticed in this economic downturn. FOX will be forced to back down
It's a moot point - the movie's not going to be any good anyway. Making a two to two-and-a-half hour version of Watchmen guarantees it's going to suck. Within that time frame, they're going to try and make it appealing to the "non-core" audience, which will dilute it, and at the same time rely on the fanboy audience, who will, unfortunately, rave about it just because it's the Watchmen, not because it's actually any good. It would take a series of two or three two hour movies to capture the full story line and do it justice, and they (WB or FOX) are smart enough to know that only the fanboys would want that. That said, Ashel, don't worry - the truly, TRULY creative people get screwed by the studios long before these kinds of issues even come up. And the rest of them? They go on to make bad remakes of classics (War of the Worlds, anyone?) or bad remakes of bad originals (Incredible Hulk, anyone?)
If you like good movies, you should give a shit. You know why? Because if that movie gets distributed by Fox, the money from distribution doesn't come anywhere near the people responsible for making it. And if it's good? That's pretty important.
Actually that wasn't me that made that statement on Screen Rant, it was one of my writers. And a link to the site would have been nice since you mentioned it. Vic
I don't really care. As long as the movie is the same, I'm fine. What's the big deal?
You forgot a question mark.
As the long as they don't change the movie I'm fine. Who gives a shit who distributes the fucking thing.