About two years ago, Warner Bros. announced that 300 director Zack Snyder would be adapting that gold standard of comics, Watchmen, into a feature film. The response was nothing short of orgiastic — from just about everyone except Watchmen‘s own scribe, Alan Moore, who remains ambivalent about all the hoopla. The 54-year-old writer and co-creator of such seminal and erudite works as From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (both of which were adapted into eagerly anticipated movies that failed to match the quality of Moore’s source material) has a tangled history with the entertainment business. Read More...
The O.C. heartthrob is finally acting his age. After scowling his way to teen idoldom as Ryan Atwood, the 30-year-old now plays rookie cop Ben Sherman on NBC’s gritty drama Southland. He talks about ditching the wifebeater and showing up Dennis Franz. This does seem like a pretty bold career transition — was it part of your plan?
I planned it all along. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha. No, I played the cards I was dealt. Read More...
Although we will likely get our Who’s the Bomber? answer by the midseason finale of Quantico, the answers don’t seem to be coming just yet. There was one person — Simon — who came out of this episode looking extremely guilty, but that has to be a red herring, right? Right? Or it actually IS Simon and the obvious red herring is just to throw us? Or it’s Shelby? Or Charlie? Read More...
