Alternate History Films (Study Guide): Things to Come, Richard Iii, Watchmen, Inglourious Basterds, Children of Men

Alternate History Films (Study Guide): Things to Come, Richard Iii, Watchmen, Inglourious Basterds, Children of Men





This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Things to Come, Richard Iii, Watchmen, Inglourious Basterds, Children of Men, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, District 9, Zipang, Kiki's Delivery Service, Fatherland, Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade, Southland Tales, a Boy and His Dog, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Steamboy, the Time Machine, Otherworld, It Happened Here, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the One, Dave, C.s.a.: the Confederate States of America, Six-String Samurai, Nothing So Strange, Watchmen: Motion Comic, Fido, 2009 Lost Memories, the Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timequest, Alive in Joburg, Philadelphia Experiment Ii, Der Tunnel, World War Iii, Hitler - Dead or Alive, White Man's Burden. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 291. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Ã…kerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The film is set in an alternate history 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as a group of mostly retired vigilantes investigates an apparent conspiracy against them and uncovers something even more grandiose and sinister. Following publication of the Watchmen comic, a live-action film adaptation was mired in development hell. Producer Lawrence Gordon began developing the project at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. (parent company of Watchmen publisher DC Comics) with producer Joel Silver and director Terry Gilliam, the latter eventually deeming the complex novel "unfilmable". During the 2000s, Gordon and Lloyd Levin collaborated with Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures to produce a script by Dav...http://booksllc.net/?id=5016250









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