{"id":267,"date":"2009-01-06T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T03:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:03:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:03:49","slug":"dailies_watchmen-valkyrie-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/dailies_watchmen-valkyrie-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"[Dailies] Oscar contenders, Valkyrie&#8217;s screenwriter, Japan&#8217;s Watchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" style=\"width:320px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/watchmen.jpg\" alt=\"watchmen\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"attachment wp-att-268\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Oscar Roundtable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thr.com\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> brings together Oscar contender directors Clint Eastwood (&#8220;Gran Torino&#8221;), Ron Howard (&#8220;Frost\/Nixon&#8221;), Danny Boyle (&#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221;), Gus Van Sant (&#8220;Milk&#8221;), Darren Aronofsky (&#8220;The Wrestler&#8221;) and Ed Zwick (&#8220;Defiance&#8221;). But why Zwick instead of Christopher Nolan (&#8220;Batman Begins&#8221;), David Fincher (&#8220;Benjamin Button&#8221;) or Kimberly Peirce (&#8220;Stop-Loss&#8221;)? Maybe scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1079049389\/bclid1443772357\/bctid6160220001\">&#8220;The Directors&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1079049389\/bclid1443772357\/bctid6449930001\">Boyle and Van Sant<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1079049389\/bclid1443772357\/bctid6451353001\">Aronofsky and Zwick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1079049389\/bclid1443772357\/bctid6451360001\">Eastwood and Howard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1079049389\/bclid1443772357\/bctid6449956001\">Eastwood and Howard, Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Q&#038;A with the Oscar-winning screenwriter of &#8220;Valkyrie&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/christopher-mcquarrie-valkyrie-q.html\">Creative Screenwriting senior editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews Christopher McQuarrie<\/a>, who goes into some great stories, such as &#8220;The Usual Suspects&#8221; and how he started out in the industry. (It was a huge help that, as a kid, he knew Bryan Singer.) The podcast is over two hours, which is longer than the feature film. Also check out the audio interview with screenwriters <a href=\"http:\/\/creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/andrew-stanton-wall-e-q.html\">Andrew Stanton (&#8220;Wall-e&#8221;)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/alan-ball-towelhead-q.html\">Alan Ball (&#8220;Towelhead&#8221;)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/dark-knight-q.html\">Jonathan Nolan (&#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221;)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Watchmen&#8221; Trailer &#8211; Japanese Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3WNETpX2Jd0<\/p>\n<p>This import has an added emphasis on the global political climate. But it also includes the things they leave out of American trailers: JFK, Castro, and Nixon&#8217;s third term. &#8220;Watchmen&#8221; is an alternate 1985 in which we won Vietnam and Nixon is still president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Roundtable The Hollywood Reporter brings together Oscar contender directors Clint Eastwood (&#8220;Gran Torino&#8221;), Ron Howard (&#8220;Frost\/Nixon&#8221;), Danny Boyle (&#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221;), Gus Van Sant (&#8220;Milk&#8221;), Darren Aronofsky (&#8220;The Wrestler&#8221;) and Ed Zwick (&#8220;Defiance&#8221;). But why Zwick instead of Christopher Nolan (&#8220;Batman Begins&#8221;), David Fincher (&#8220;Benjamin Button&#8221;) or Kimberly Peirce (&#8220;Stop-Loss&#8221;)? 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