Watchmen!!!

Finally, after so much discussion and pre-production hell, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's comic masterwork Watchmen has been greenlit and looks to be on its way. Its been talked about for sometime now, but finally it has appeared with some confidence in Empire and the various blogs and gossip sites are rife with rumours of its imminent production.

After falling through last year with Paul Greengrass at the helm, Dawn Of The Dead and 300 (more about that one underneath) director Zach Snyder. No casting news as yet but hopefully more will become clear over the next few months. It is however, not scheduled for release until 2008.

300 however will arrive towards the end of the year (early 2007 for Brits) and looks outstanding. No teasers, trailers or clips yet but with its standing ovation at Comic-Con it looks as though Snyder's first stab at adapting a great graphic novel has come up trumps. An adaptation of Frank Miller's trojan saga, its been done with thesame bluescreen technology as Sin City which promises eye-watering aesthetic beauty galore. You can see the posters on the 'Oh-So-Much-Better-Than-Aintitcool' Joblo.